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hindsight as I know how hard sports fencing was and the such but I think it was the association with it being based on historical documents I perhaps thought it…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…
What’s up in Historical Fencing Upcoming events: Nordschlag 2019 Lord Baltimore’s Challenge This week’s craftsman: Maciej Kopciuch and his “Art of Swordmaking” This week’s video: “Why were short swords sometimes better for military soldiers” by Schola Gladiatoria This week’s blogpost: Reconstruction of Historical Martial Arts on Hans Talhoffer In this summary I include not only current news, but…
I’m an artist craftsman from Poland. My specialisation are medieval swords 10-15th century. I’m also a painter, sculptor, music composer, writer. Interested in medieval Arts, martial arts and crafts. My approach to swords reconstruction is to be as close as possible to this what I can see in museums. I think that the real, original…
Medieval and Renaissance practice (blunt) fencing equipment, arms and armor – our customers are mainly SCA, HEMA and jousters. Swords, sabres, rapiers, lances, and protective gear. Website: www.darkwoodarmory.com Facebook: Darkwood Armory
Bladesmith Chris Adams and leatherworker Alicia Lewis. The offer longswords, arming swords, montante blades, rapiers, sideswords, smallswords, sabres, daggers and all leatherwork connected to them. Website: balefireblades.com Facebook: Balefire Blades
Péter Regenyei „makes swords as a living history research”. He also learns and teaches in a HEMA school in Hungary. He offers modern weapons, including museum replicas and his own designs, to which the foundations are also historical. The shape and characteristics of these swords are based on historical research. Regenyei makes feders, rapiers, daggers,…
A company dedicated to making the strongest and sharpest knives. Also gear for reenactment, modern hunting, sharp weapons for HEMA and replicas of historical weapons from all over the world. Website: www.coldsteel.com Facebook: Cold Steel