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 […]
Category Archives: Training
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 […]
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!
Reflection on HEMA Injuries
I had a lot of fun this past weekend at Anvil, a tournament ran by The Forge WMA in Calgary. The tournament was well organized, probably the best job I’ve seen them do yet. And the fighting was challenging and enjoyable – I think for everyone. I’m really looking forward to the remaining tournaments I’ll […]
Upcoming Events – Spring 2018
Well, we’re almost into the tournament season, and that means that there will be a lot of events coming! Our first one is a members only event, on March 10, with Tony Huang visiting us from Blood & Iron Martial Arts. He’ll be showing use some of his interpretations on the Meyer’s dagger plates. April […]
Defining Our Art
The other day I had someone ask what it is that we do at The Academy of European Swordsmanship. He had found us through our website. Now, my immediate thoughts were that either he didn’t really have a look at the website, or it’s somehow lacking in this regard. Maybe the information is too hard […]