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HEMA Weekly
What’s up in Historical Fencing Upcoming events: Rencontre AMHE FightCamp 2019 Historisk kampsport på Trelleborgen Event report: Destreza vs Italian rapier This week’s craftsman: Regenyei Armoury This week’s videos: Playing around with Marozzos Imbracciatura by ChicagoSwordplay I33 – Durchtreten by Federico Malagutti Kicking in swordfencing by The Exiles Testing Kraken Swords British Navy Cutlass by…
On Holding the Sword
Gripping the sword seems simple enough but there are often mistakes made. The sword is sometimes held too tightly or too loosely. The sword is sometimes held by the wrong fingers, or with the pressure of the wrong fingers. Each one of these elements can impact how the sword is used by the fencer. Of…
Striking with Spears?
This is the justification a certain well-known but severely misguided HEMA interpreter to apply longsword striking techniques to the spear, which drives me pretty insane. It just wasn’t done with spears, but a certain sector of the HEMA community just loves the ideas of taking techniques from one form and applying them to a different…
