IT’S OFTEN SAID THAT LIFE’S only certainties are death and taxes, but people have spent centuries figuring out ways to evade the latter. Look no further than a hoard of 2,528 11th-century coins recently discovered in England, which together bear witness to regime change, domestic unrest, and, amid it all, fraud. The coins were found in…
This project integrated an embedded system that detects and reports martially sound strikes into a European Longsword simulator. This system filters out parries and contact too light to be considered valid while assessing the quality of a true strike. The entire system is contained within the sword simulator while disturbing its handling as little as…
HEMAChron creators are making a website to collect all HEMA events in one place, sorted by specific dates and category. Now they run beta tests.
Initial Impressions This doesn’t feel like a longsword. I’ve handled held a friend’s Arms and Armor montante before, and a Pavel Moc federschwert (insert joke about how big pavel’s standard feders are here), and it felt rather similar to those. It didn’t feel cheap, it didn’t feel under or over constructed, and it rang like…
What’s up in WWII Reenactment Upcoming events: Lockport WWII Days The Victory Show 2019 Tank Farm Open House Military weekend at Cricklade Railway Normandy & D Day Veterans 75th Anniversary Reunion Village at War Weekend 2019 Event report D-Day Conneaut report This week’s craftsman: Partyzant.pl This week’s video: Masurian September by Polish Miliary Channel If…
