I know many of you practice martial arts or stage combat. Now please share a personal experience about your sword training. Did you start with blades before or after you saw Highlander?
For me, I started watching swashbuckling movies with my grandparents when I was a child. Errol Flynn, Douglas Fairbanks Jr, Stewart Granger, Robert Brown and Tony Curtis were my screen idols. Grampa and I would duel using wooden spoons held backwards. I tried to use a knitting needle once because they made the clinking sounds like real swords. That got me grounded because Gram said I would poke someone's eye out. I used carrots and celery to practice my moves too. When I got older my dad started to teach me martial arts. I took a break after he died and started martial arts again in college. When Highlander came out I saw it twice a day after work at the theater in Sun Valley, Idaho when Bill Panzer held a screening there.
For me, I started watching swashbuckling movies with my grandparents when I was a child. Errol Flynn, Douglas Fairbanks Jr, Stewart Granger, Robert Brown and Tony Curtis were my screen idols. Grampa and I would duel using wooden spoons held backwards. I tried to use a knitting needle once because they made the clinking sounds like real swords. That got me grounded because Gram said I would poke someone's eye out. I used carrots and celery to practice my moves too. When I got older my dad started to teach me martial arts. I took a break after he died and started martial arts again in college. When Highlander came out I saw it twice a day after work at the theater in Sun Valley, Idaho when Bill Panzer held a screening there.
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