Thrand test an artifact Viking age bog axe head found in Novgorod, Russian on a wild Boar carcass in Forged in Fire style by doing the famous kill test of Doug Marcaida from the History Channel program. So sit back and watch the famed Historical Torslev or Torslav axe possibly an early Scandinavian ,Varangian Gaurd,…
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Thrand receives a powerful English longbow from master bowyer ArcheyBowman from Ebay https://www.ebay.com/str/archeybowman the man who made the 105# bow from the popular video ” Warbow / English Longbow Vs Plate, Chain Maille and Gambeson ” https://youtu.be/JqkiKjBQe7U . Special thanks to Archeybowman on Ebay for excellent English Longbow! https://www.ebay.com/str/archeybowman/ Special Thanks to Brad Lynn for…
Thrand tests a rare Indian Khasi sword from Medieval Shoppe Australia in the Style of the History channel program Forged in Fire He does the famous kill test from the program with the two handed Khasi sword or two handed Naga Dao. Khasi Sword https://medievalshoppe.com.au/khasi-sword-india/ Weight: 1.71 kg Overall length: 137 cm Blade length: 74…
Read an original post with more photos on Recreating History A couple of friends and I visited the Swedish castle of Tjolöholm for an afternoon tea in the 1910’s. They have an exhibition with some of the costumes from Downton Abbey at the moment and therefore had that theme on their afternoon tea. Me, Annette,…
The Fechtschulen or ‘Fencing Schools’ were combat sport events that purposefully emulated their historical predecessors as public spectacles attempting to maintain martial arts training traditions that date back to Ancient Greece. Some argue these Fechtschulen events for the Middle and Lower classes were pure sport and spectacle with little value […] Continue reading Forerunners of the Fechtschule…
“Now, when starting up the Gothenburg Free Fencers Guild […], we wanted to have a club sword that was as close as possible to historical originals, both in shape and characteristics, and which would fit well with the sources we study; primarily the treatises of Joachim Meyer.” Continue reading Review: The GFFG Berbekucz Club Sword on…
My focus is really on 18th-19th and early 20th century HEMA. What I would call “Industrial martial arts” and the remaining vernacular traditions which survived in that period. When I started HEMA, I tried to do as much as I could. Longsword, rapier, sabre, wrestling, staff, stick etc. I still think it is very useful…
There is no general theory of when one must withdraw, either because it is tactically advantageous, or because he is in danger. This analysis is an attempt to address both of these issues, and demonstrate that they are the same question, with the same answer […] Continue reading On The Five Words and Withdrawal on…
At least as early as in the early 17th cent, fencing masters swore to care in particular for widows and orphans, as can be seen in e.g. the oaths of the fencers of the Company of Maisters of the Noble Science of Defense. And this tradition was maintained in Germany until modern time, partly as…