Author: Roger Norling

We have very exciting news for you today. We finally officially launched a new page on HROARR called the HEMA Blogosphere found in the main menu under “Reading”. This page collects excerpts of all the latest posts from some of the most important HEMA blogs and presents them in a single place, with links to the full articles. This makes it far easier to get an overview over what is happening. Currently it lists more than 425 posts.

If you wish to have your blog added, or removed then just contact us and we will fix it right away. Hope you like it!

Hi everyone! For the last few days we have been experiencing some technical issues with the site. I am not quite sure of the cause but it may be due to a server update, but possibly also some other reasons. We are working...

The Swordfish 2014 livestream is set to start on 20:00 CET, November 1 on this link: http://live.ghfs.se/ Please help us raise awareness of our beloved Historical European Martial Arts by spreading this information.See...

Swordfish livestream will showcase on Saturday, November 1st, on this adress, spread the word! http://live.ghfs.se In the meantime, follow the link to enjoy all of previous years livestreams. More info to follow...

We’re quite excited to see HEMA being reported in the renowned and prestigious N.Y. Times magazine! It features both an article on the HEMA event Longpoint by Mac William Bishop as well as a video report, both showing...

Hello dear HEMA community! I am sad to say that I’ve reached one of those points in life where you have to make a drastic choice, where you look back on things done and weigh their value against the possible futures....

Big news both for international HEMA and in particular the Swedish HEMA fencers! The Swedish HEMA Federation is now an official member of the Swedish Budo and Martial Sports Federation (Svenska Budo och Kampsportsförbundet)....

I just want to thank everyone for an amazing year, both for me as a person for being given the chance to travel the world to teach and meet some incredible people, but also for the quite stunning development the HROARR site has...

Beautifully shot and executed, so there is no way we can keep from sharing this.

With a recent and surprising decision, the EU Directive 135/52/EC, people within the European Union are from the beginning of this month forbidden to carry swords or swordlike objects outside of their homes without specific...

Something not to miss: Like the two last Swordfish events, Fechtschule America is now broadcasting the final fights live on the Internet. The fights are taking place in Texas, USA on March 15-16th, with the live streaming...

Here is a Historical Fencing event in Rome, Italy, some of you may not be familiar with. It is now being prepared for the sixth time and will include tournaments, workshops and seminars. This should be great fun, so have a look!...

It is very, very cool to see that statistics show how reviews on HROARR with time reaches at least about 20-25% of the whole HEMA community! Thank you so much for all your visits! And soon there will be a new review series of...

Just made a tiny update to the review of the Hi-Tec Scimitar fencing shoes here. Really good and durable shoes. www.hroarr.com/scimitars-fencing-shoes

A new page about Training sword maintenance has just been posted. This page will soon have an accompanying page about how to remove severe rust and oxidization from metal. The page can be found here:...

Just found solid proof that Johannes Liechtenauer originally came from Sweden and that this Johannes of Sueeno is indeed the fencing teacher that Fiore Dei Liberi says he was taught by. Sueeno is an older spelling of what is...

New HEMA club in Dundee, Scotland called The Institute for Historical Arts. The club is run by Mark Wilkie and James Burn, who also runs the University based group RMAS, which is affiliated with Academy of Historical Arts...

A new baby is born: Kunst des Fechtens has had a 12th chapter, fathered by Peter Smallridge who has studied with KdF Nottingham before moving south. The focus will naturally be on Liechtenauer longsword with “an...

The president is Niklas Mårdby of Gothenburg Historical Fencing School with Carl Ryrberg of Örebro Association for Historical Fencing as Vice President. More details to follow.

After 12 years in preparation several French associations and clubs have gathered and managed to create a structure for a French HEMA federation. The site of the Fédération Française des Arts Martiaux Historiques Européens...

I just received some club details for a new Norwegian HEMA club located in Oslo. They are called Oslo KDF and can be reached through [email protected] or http://www.communitywalk.com