The Society for Creative Anachronism has for more than thirty years practised a derivative medieval martial art based on the use of batons. In this unique series, the profiles of the most renowned SCA combatants are surveyed to record and pass on what has been learned about armoured combat through the combined efforts of thousands of individuals. This first volume presents a unique profile of the philosophy by perhaps the most influential SCA combatant andtheorist, Paul Porter, known in the Society for more than thirty years as Paul of Bellatrix.