And we were also doing sword fighting, we were doing sword fighting demonstrations, because we were really into that, as I became in high school.
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There's nothing quite like sword fighting to get the blood pumping.
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Sounds like the perfect place to hone your sword-fighting techniques.
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Most Medieval: Gives a whole new meaning to "sword fighting," eh?
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It's got Kung Fu, sword fighting, but it's kinda old now.
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Whether it's sword fighting or playing basketball, we are constantly on the go.
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Did you see Arya Stark (Maisie Williams) show off her sword fighting skills?
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"Whether it's sword fighting or playing basketball, we are constantly on the go."
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Keep training, keep up the sword fighting, but ultimately, get a powerful ally.
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I feel, in short, like my imagination's version of a sword-fighting hero.
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Please, don't show me sword fighting — give me more of that national debt conversation!
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It's the first time she witnesses Arya's sword fighting skills since the Joffrey altercation.
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Sekiro successfully replicates the deadly dance of chanbara sword fighting in its game mechanics.
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And there was also sword fighting and I thought that was the coolest thing.
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His choreography also features lots of regal poses and swashbuckling moves that mirror sword-fighting.
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Instead, swordsmanship became the pursuit of gentlemen interested in learning the scientific art of sword fighting.
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There, they covered everything from sword fighting, acrobatics, and martial arts such as taekwondo and wushu.
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Fencing is sword fighting, which is the best way human beings have ever killed each other.
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There is, granted, sword-fighting in the new one — but the audience has to imagine the swords.
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Rogue Alliance, formed one year ago, focuses on martial arts, stage combat, sword fighting and saber choreography.
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Well, it's even worse if your business is sword fighting and that meeting is an Olympic match.
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Katara masters waterbending, Sokka masters sword fighting, and Toph invents metalbending, despite all being underestimated in various ways.
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They were having a medieval festival with sword-fighting demos; I got to shoot a bow and arrow.
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The first name on Arya's kill list was Ser Meryn Trant, because he killed her sword-fighting instructor.
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"In the afternoons I do a 1- to 2-hour sword fighting session with my trainer, James Lew," she said.
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Experiences in Tokyo include sword fighting classes with a trained samurai to a two-day outing with a sushi chef.
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But on a recent night, as I watched them sword fighting with spatulas in the kitchen, I recognized real love.
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That weapon has served her well in the Water Dance sword fighting style, where she has to be agile and quick.
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He's in a group of 200 people, not just born-and-bred Icelanders, who train in sword-fighting, archery, and crafts.
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Why it matters: The major shocking plot developments of "The Children" almost overshadow its big, and hugely entertaining, sword-fighting sequence.
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With its own form of grinding, too, as you couldn't just crash into insult sword fighting while green around the gills.
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After years of developing her sword-fighting skills, last season saw Arya Stark (Maisie Williams) learning how to fight while blind.
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There's something special about a game that seems to understand that many of its players will never become sword-fighting aces.
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The inmates' detailed plan starts with daily reading, writing, and sword-fighting lessons, aimed at transforming Edmond into a cultured man.
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Activities will include storytelling, Japanese crafts, a taiko drumming demonstration and mini workshop, a samurai sword-fighting display and a costume contest.
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It was, he said, "absolutely the 'Cyrano' that you would expect," with the fake nose, the hat, the plume, the sword-fighting.
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Her excellent sword-fighting skills were finally acknowledged, and someone she respects and appears to love gave her the highest honor of knighthood.
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But the most classic hero figure we've got — Jon Snow — has proven that his most heroic skill is not sword fighting, but diplomacy.
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Littlefinger's mind game seemingly works, especially considering how stunned Sansa looks as she watches Arya and Brienne show off their sword-fighting skills.
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Ninja Trainer, for example, is the closest thing I've seen to a sword-fighting simulator, a cartoony spin on Sixense's lightsaber training demo.
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"Her therapist was holding her and Violet and Eden started sword fighting again and Eden started taking a step toward Violet," Kylee says.
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She did pretty much most of the stunt work herself — the horse riding, the sword fighting, the martial arts, the battle sequences, the stunts.
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These days you'd have an easier job sword-fighting The Mountain than you would getting any secrets out of the Game of Thrones actors.
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Memorability: Ser Barristan may not have been the biggest character in the show, but when it came to sword-fighting he was a total badass.
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The days of spoon sword-fighting for cookie dough chunks with friends and significant others in pints of Ben & Jerry's ice cream are officially over.
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Because of its light weight and exceedingly thin body, the rapier moved sword fighting from large, broad strokes to the finer, more accurate thrusting approach.
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Insult sword fighting was removed for Monkey Island's sequel, LeChuck's Revenge, but reinstated for the third game in the series, The Curse of Monkey Island.
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There's sword-fighting, horses, armies running at each other, fire, snow, and orgies — pretty much all the things that make up Game Of Thrones' DNA.
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"When you suck at sword-fighting, but you know the army of the dead are coming and you got no Dragonglass or Valyrian steel," Williams wrote.
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New York Magazine compiled a list of those essential GoT phrases and questions you can fool around with: Tell me the first lesson of sword fighting.
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That's because it has sword fighting, and I turn into the Star Wars kid whenever given the opportunity to do physical combat in a virtual setting.
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In 218, a first-person sword-fighting game called Clang that had raised $2100,236 in crowdfunding was canceled when the developer failed to secure additional funding.
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And it doubles as a history of the chanbara (sword fighting) genre, providing an opportunity to sample clips from seldom-seen or partially lost silent films.
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The last five minutes of the show were chaos, which means you might have missed this tiny detail in between all the throat-slashing and sword-fighting.
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Last week's season 7 premiere, "Dragonstone," gave our shipping fantasies plenty of fodder when the not-couple interacted after Brienne was giving Podrick some sword fighting lessons.
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After her sword-fighting teacher from season 1 likely perished (or… maybe not?) and her father, Ned Stark, was beheaded, Arya went to a dark, vulnerable place.
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I love the feeling of getting real exercise in a virtual sword-fighting game, or of walking around a real room to see the artwork I've created.
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Now that Game of Thrones is no more, and the first prequel didn't get picked up, where are we supposed to get our next sword-fighting fix?
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And it's during this imprisonment that Jaime's life is forever changed when his sword-fighting hand is cut off by his captors, leaving him weakened physically and mentally.
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It showed that these concepts really can work in a 3D space by staying true to the franchise's well-known sword-fighting, puzzle-solving, and dungeon-crawling elements.
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"The truth is, that I am obliged to copy these names for sword-fighting out of a book, having no direct experience to call upon," this personage confesses.
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It's a story of blood and rebellion, of sound, fury and sword fighting — so it was, of course, destined for adaptation in our post-"Game of Thrones" age.
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Directed by Jason Rourke, Mary, Queen of Scots promises a healthy dose of sword fighting on horses, fancy corsets, male fragility, and a riveting battle between two powerful women.
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It takes place in a dark realm where you compete against other players online in real-time using various fighting techniques, from sword fighting to hand-to-hand combat.
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There was never any shortage of things to gawk at, from the two men practicing sword-fighting in one corner to the fortune teller inviting people into her tent.
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With every Wonder Woman trailer that followed, the question of how a woman would go about crouching and kneeling and sword-fighting in 4-inch heels nagged at me.
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He transforms from the Nutcracker Prince — sword-fighting, mouse-killer, victorious — to the Prince who is the ruler of the Land of the Sweets and wears a pink suit.
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One of the early draws of Arya as a popular character was her interest in battle, from archery to sword fighting — dancing, as she and master Syrio Forel called it.
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And, when your hair gets in the way of all your badass sword fighting (or emailing, or weightlifting, or just getting out of bed), double buns will always do the trick.
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Even the sword-fighting lessons were the gift of an indulgent father to his tomboy daughter, a bit of play before she was finally old enough to put childish things away.
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I was trained in stage combat, particularly sword fighting in drama school; I have a nice collection of swords designed for that, but that was more helpful for The Underland Chronicles.
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"Imagine sword fighting, which is particularly physical, especially how we were doing it because the technique that [Director Guy Ritchie] wanted to use was doing different speeds for the fight sequences," he said.
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And you can understand why; we had fight scenes and I trained like all of last year to do horse riding, sword fighting, and then going to train just to not get hurt.
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But watching Simon on the job, sword fighting a bald bad guy at the Isle of Wight Pirate Festival this past July, it's easy to forget the sordid behavior of the actor he's imitating.
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Hunnam said he had to learn not only his sword fighting sequences, but also those of the other actors because everything was filmed separately to allow the filmmakers to play with the swordplay speeds.
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Working as a ninja in Japan today is a lot more of a PR gig but still requires a special skill set in the art of ancient ninjutsu—unarmed combat, acrobatics, and sword fighting.
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"Sword fighting and jumping on and off furniture — ouch!" she said, adding that when she performed the role at the Met in 2010, she logged two miles on her pedometer during the first act alone.
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As the weathered monster mercenary Geralt of Rivia, you can take up contracts across the sprawling continent to kill grotesque creatures and tormented undead spirits, besting them with spells, potions, and good-old fashioned sword fighting.
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And there was a little blonde boy — and I had really blonde hair when I was a kid — and I remember it was in the desert and they were sword fighting and it was an adventure.
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In the afternoons I do a 1-2 hour sword fighting session with my trainer, James Lew, we go over the fundamentals that work the obliques, core stabilizes, and triceps as well as a few tricks.
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Outlaw King isn't a game-changer, but it's a strong enough movie to make it worth recommending to anyone who might enjoy a little sword-fighting and horse-riding on the gray-green hills of Scotland.
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At The Game Awards tonight, developer Sucker Punch revealed the latest trailer for its PS4 exclusive Ghost of Tsushima, an action-adventure game that combines sword fighting and stealth in a world inspired by feudal Japan.
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In the first trailer for the series, we see the entertainer throw a violin in a blender in search of "new sounds," running naked from a hotel room, sword-fighting onstage, and butting heads with his entourage.
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"If you are of the opinion that a sword-fighting soldier woman is not something you want your daughter to aspire to, you will have the information to decide whether you want her to watch it," she said.
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So Vox's Game of Thrones death pool is much more expansive this week than it was in the first two weeks of season eight, considering all the ice zombie attacks, dragonfire, and sword-fighting that's about to go down.
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The other guy, Dan, who would never be my friend, hailed from western Massachusetts and became extremely interested in the college's kendo club, where they practiced this ancient art of Japanese sword-fighting with wooden sticks in the gym.
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Fans of the game might identify Geralt's signature sword-fighting-meets-magic style in Cavill's performance, but the star didn't just play the games to learn how to fight as the witcher: he found inspiration in other fantasy fiction.
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It's also why the novel is so fiendishly challenging to theater directors, who must figure out how to handle the fast-paced action and scene changes, and find actors with outsize personalities and athletic grace (all that sword-fighting!).
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Kaitlyn: It's easy to forget, given all the sex and sword-fighting and magic and withering one-liners, but the A Song of Ice and Fire series has, so far, been a many-thousand-page tragedy about the cost of violence.
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Sixteen wonderful days celebrating the extremes of human physicality – from horse dancing to sword fighting, from hurling objects into the sky to punching people in the face – ended with an awkward doffing of Super Mario's cap amidst a blaze of fireworks.
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In 1,2 Switch, players take control of each Joy-Con controller and can play out scenarios like quick draw shooting and sword fighting without needing to look at the screen, with their movements determined by the motion control features in the controller.
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The impressive performers will include Kyo Kasumi, a female sword-fighting expert who will lead samurai kids' action classes in the afternoon, and Candy 5, who creates amezaiku, or taffy sculpture, and bills herself as the first female practitioner in 300 years.
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Despite whether or not Petter was the greatest Master of Defence in Germany, his tome provided martial arts enthusiasts, both contemporary to his time and modern, with wrestling tactics that were often ignored, distained, or neglected in an age dedicated to rapier and sword fighting.
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Both Mars and Pluto are related to war: Aggressive Mars is all about sword fighting, while Pluto, a "new planet," symbolizes more modern acts of warfare—when they square off, something is coming to an end or being cut off, tempers are short, and action is swift.
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Arya — our Arya, who begged to learn sword fighting, who attended her father's execution, who befriended a pie baker and outargued lords, who wandered a war-blasted country, who studied face-changing and murder, who gained deadly power but seemed to lose her soul — got this done.
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Polish and international players have come to 'Witcher School' events at castles in Poland's south west since 2015, to role-play as trainee witchers in stories created with the help of dozens of organisers, including writers, costume designers, make-up artists and experts in sword-fighting and blacksmithing.
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I started out as a little doll on a shelf, scurrying around a room like a mouse until I found a way out through the floorboards under the bed, and finished the demo as a giant rock monster with a sword, fighting other giant rock monsters by swinging the motion controller.
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Every trailer for Daredevil's second season makes it look like Matt Murdock has stepped into The Matrix to fight off villains skilled in martial arts and sword fighting while bathed in darkness and yellow-green light, and this final trailer only helps to cement how fantastic all of that ought to be.
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I don't care about sword-fighting or being bastard enough to survive the apocalypse, but to be able to play "Dear Prudence" on guitar and drums, and to be the first to ever do it, and to make millions from it, even a semblance of that experience fills and makes me warm.
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And lest you come away with the impression that FilmStruck's mission is strictly highbrow, this month the site hosts all six films in the spectacular "Lone Wolf and Cub" series, 1970s "chanbara" (sword-fighting) movies from Japan featuring a wandering warrior and his unlikely accomplice, his infant son in a baby cart.
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But this day was for the children, who dived into the bouncy castle, or inflatable bouncer; played at sword-fighting with modeling balloons (as twisting balloons are known here); or had their faces painstakingly painted by volunteers, mostly schoolteachers, with several children lined up before each of them waiting their turns patiently.
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Young, good with horses, and able to learn skills like sword fighting, high work (doing stuff at great heights), and falling ("You're so focused that everything becomes very slow, it seems to take forever to get down... it burns a lot of adrenaline, which is exhausting"), Armstrong worked on a string of big films and doubled for James Bond.
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While the entertainment industry has made efforts to depict a wider range of ethnicities, colors, sizes, and sexual orientations, it still felt like a momentous event when ABC's Once Upon a Time announced that the new Cinderella for season 7, played by Dania Ramirez, would not be the classic white damsel in distress, but rather a fierce sword-fighting Latina warrior.
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At 31, she has complicated her reputation as a whispery singer of sparse, deconstructed R&B songs by blowing out not only her sound but her broader creative practice: She has trained as a dancer in various underground styles (vogueing, krumping, pole work), while also working as an actor, director and even a student of wushu, a form of Chinese martial arts that can resemble sword fighting.
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