I recently answered a question on a site called Quora, regarding this. Quora is a site where people post questions for others to answer. It’s one of the most civil discussion sites I’ve ever seen, which is why I like it. Trolling is kept to a minimum, and active, intellectual discussion is encouraged. Anyhow, here’s the […]
Author Archive: Johanus Haidner
Hit Data – history vs. today
I had to read this article by Sean Franklin: http://swordstem.com/2019/10/02/historical-injury-vs-modern-tournament-targeting/ It’s fascinating how the data shows so much about targeting in the contexts of the history, versus our tournaments today. Does it have to do with the context of the tournament versus the battlefield? Franklin does address this in his article (read it). I do […]
Our Sources and What We Study
HEMA has a wide variety of sources nowadays, unlike when the AES started back in the early 1990’s. We had few resources – the Lichtenauer poem, Talhoffer’s 1467 treatise (only in German), and a few other references that were incomplete. Since then the scholarship in this has expanded greatly! Today we have people translating treatises […]
Nordschlag 2019 Winners
We would like to thank all the volunteers and participants that made this event possible. We would like to recognize Jane Johnston as the winner of our most esteemed prize: the sportsmanship prize! She received a Black Fencer Zweihaender. The 2019 tournament events included:
The HEMA Scholar
It’s been almost a year since this book was published. We’re starting to work on the next instalment in the series, which will take a little while. Hopefully before the end of 2019 (but no promises). The HEMA scholar is several articles on Historical European Martial Arts (HEMA), including interpretations of some Masters’ works, select […]
Nordschlag 2019
Once again we’re running our open HEMA tournament in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada. This year year’s events will be open steel longsword, mixed shortsword, women’s longsword, and our random weapons fun tourney. Every year since 2007 we’ve had a tournament where we invited martial arts practitioners from other HEMA/WMA schools as well as the greater martial […]