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... Continue reading→
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... Continue reading→
Chokehold Breaks
This was a little lesson I was giving during freeplay time in one of our classes a couple of years ago. I don’t even know why we recorded it, probably because the student wanted to study the moves. I hope it’s useful!
SGT Blades Practice Longsword Review
This was a custom make that Garth loaned me to have a look at and evaluate. When I first looked at it, I thought it might be too light for sparring with, at least against a Federschwert. Was I ever wrong! If I were to give this a rating out of 5 stars, I’d give... Continue reading→