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 […]
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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 […]
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, […]
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 […]