What’s up in Historical Fencing Upcoming event: Mid-Continental HEMA Open (MCHO) Event report: European games 2019 in Minsk This week’s craftsman: Poker Armory by Jerzy Ożóg This week’s video: Cutting with spears by Schola Gladiatoria This week’s blogpost: First impressions of Hema by Fat Hussar In this summary I include not only current news, but also…
The first thing I would say is that I was woefully underprepared for just how physically demanding Hema would be. It sounds kinda stupid in hindsight as I know how hard sports fencing was and the such but I think it was the association with it being based on historical documents I perhaps thought it…
Swords designed for HEMA – Historical Fencing: longswords, messers, rapiers, sabres and others. Facebook: Poker Armory
The tournament hall was good – big, but not too much, although at some point we needed to leave the hall so that our oxygen could be replenished. It was a bit painful that we had to leave all our gear in a hall on the first floor, and climb 4 floors every time we…
Jason continues Talos’ training, this time using a medieval cloak. Credits: Talos Direction, Camera, Sound, Editing Kasumi Presenter Jason Kingsley OBE Tweets by RebellionJason Tweets by ModernHistoryTV Tweets by Rebellion Music licensed from PremiumBeat.
First look review of a short Turkish style laminate recurve bow, with ash, bubinga and fibreglass, from AF Archery. Amazon.com – https://amzn.to/2LtXOjO Amazon UK: https://amzn.to/2FInBAQ
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Archery versus armour – Here I share some views and experience from bow and arrow tests against amour, as well as recommending that you watch The Way of Archery’s latest tests against lamellar armour: Medieval Arrows (Will Sherman) Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/medievalarrows
A look at Crusader era daggers from 1070 through to 1450 using 3 examples from the Tod Cutler range. https://todcutler.com/collections/medieval-daggers-and-large-knives The surprisingly acceptable broken back seat, the antenna quill dagger and the cruciform quill dagger. If you are interested in budget, but excellent medieval knives have a look at www.todcutler.com and if you are interested…
Spears are normally considered as thrusting weapons, but some are designed to cut. Here we look at some of the issues with cutting with spears and ways to mitigate the problems. Extra videos on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/scholagladiatoria