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Tag: starting from scratch

Getting Started in HEMA, Wherever You Are

by Devon Boorman July 27, 2017

Historical European Martial Arts are one of the most rapidly growing parts of the Martial Arts world with new groups, sites, and schools opening up all the time in both the West and East. Yet for a new practitioner, even with all this choice, it can be hard to know where or how to start.…

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Posted in Adult Swordplay, ProgramsTagged learning, starting from scratch, Starting HEMA
Learn to swordfight again from scratch. Learn new things about yourself!

Restarting from Zero

by Devon Boorman May 19, 2016

I have gone from being able to do 100 push-ups in a set to not being able to do one and back again. I spent years developing myself as a fencer only to have to tear down what I’d built and start from scratch. Years ago I could touch my toes without bending my legs, sometime in…

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Posted in Personal Development, ProgramsTagged learning, recovering from injury, returning to martial arts, square one, starting from scratch
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