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!
Author Archive: Johanus Haidner
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 […]
A Martial Artist’s Critique of Movie Sword Fights
By Eric Lowe, guest writer For me, the big thing that distinguishes great sword fights from good ones is technique selection.Long answer: I really can’t count a fight scene as good if it doesn’t serve the story well. But let’s assume that we’re looking at scenes where the story is there. I also don’t really […]
The HEMA Scholar – new AES book
Books on HEMA add credence and authority to how one is perceived as an instructor. Maybe it works that way for a whole school, too. I’ve been meaning to write a book for many years, and even have a few outlines completed, but never seem to find the time to complete any of them. Well, […]
2018 Tournament Winners
Open Steel Longsword 1 Ashley Coe The Forge Western Martial Arts 2 Joseph Paches Academy of European Swordsmanship 3 Kevin de Ridder Blood and Iron Martial Arts, Burnaby 4 August Sieben Academy of European Swordsmanship Sidesword 1 Tony Huang Blood and Iron Martial Arts, Burnaby 2 Lars Le Gras The Forge Western Martial Arts 3 […]
Ragnarok – HEMA Tournament in Rimbey
The AES has it’s first hosted tournament of 2018 at our Rimbey chapter on June 23 at Rimbey Community Centre, starting at 10:00 am. This is Rimbey’s third tournament, and will include three events: steel longsword, steel sword & buckler, and synthetic Dane Axe. This is one of the tournaments that count towards the Prairies […]