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Hooray! Another HEMA practicioner! I'm from upstate NY (US), and I agree wholeheartedly with everything mentioned here. This man speaks truth. Our group foc
by gatesphere 12y ago
Hooray! Another HEMA practicioner!
I'm from upstate NY (US), and I agree wholeheartedly with everything mentioned here. This man speaks truth.
Our group focuses on medieval German Longsword, but we also take a dip into several other techniques, ranging through history from slings, to viking sword and axe, all the way through la canne and savate.
Like true vikings, we train in the snow (when the weather cooperates and gives us snowy fields). Nothing quite invigorates the blood like doing laps and duels in the frozen north!
- hessenwolf 12y agoI came across a troupe of Longswording Englishmen in a fencing workshop in Scotland. They mainly practiced mowing down unarmed peasants with longswords, from what I could see. Perhaps you could expand on my limited insight?
- rsync 12y ago"Hooray! Another HEMA practicioner!" I am surprised that nobody in this thread has mentioned the Dog Brothers from California. They do not fight with swords, but they practice live, full contact stick and staff fighting. In a cage. Without any armor. Yes, I also thought that that can't possibly be a thing... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MvmLQ_Jjqmk https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MvmLQ_Jjqmk https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QjAkbQb6axU https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QjAkbQb6axU
- swatthatfly 12y agoGreat videos. These contests seem to be modeled on Kali/Silat, the Filipino and Indonesian martial arts.