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 to explore as much as you can, but at some point I decided to really focus my practice on what a 19th century man could know: sabre, smallsword, cane, staff, wrestling, boxing, knife fighting. I always had a great interest in French sources, of course because it is my first language, but also because I think they deserve to be better known than they are right now.
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