Some thoughts on playing the victim
A problem that we commonly encounter in the training and teaching of martial arts in general, is...
Read MorePosted by Roger Norling | Sep 13, 2018 | Articles, Psychology & Mentality, Reading, Teaching, Teaching & training methods, Teaching Pedagogics, Techniques & interpretation, Train, Training exercises, Training methods |
A problem that we commonly encounter in the training and teaching of martial arts in general, is...
Read MorePosted by Maciej Talaga | Feb 6, 2018 | Articles, Fencing Culture, Teaching, Teaching & training methods, Teaching Methodology, Teaching Pedagogics |
Ours are fighting systems that are under (re)construction. Those of us who consider themselves...
Read MorePosted by Piermarco Terminiello | Dec 23, 2017 | Research articles, Study Articles, Teaching & training methods, Techniques & interpretation |
Giovanni Alberto Cassani published a military treatise in Naples in 1603.1 In this work he...
Read MorePosted by David Coblentz | Nov 1, 2017 | Articles, Study Articles, Teaching & training methods, Teaching Curriculum, Teaching Pedagogics, Techniques & interpretation |
This article will present an analysis of Johann Georg Paschen’s (1628-1678) Kurtze iedoch...
Read MorePosted by Alexander Fürgut | Dec 2, 2016 | Articles, Psychology & Mentality, Teaching & training methods |
Some month ago a nearby group decided to run a small longsword tournament as part of some local...
Read MorePosted by Matt Galas | Sep 9, 2016 | Articles, Fencing Culture, Teaching & training methods |
Over the past five years, an increasing number of HEMA tournaments have added a new kind of award,...
Read MorePosted by Roger Norling | Aug 15, 2016 | Articles, Psychology & Mentality, Teaching & training methods |
Since the elements described and explained up to now are properly just a beginning and primer...
Read MorePosted by Michael Chidester | Aug 11, 2016 | Articles, Research articles, Study Articles, Teaching & training methods, Techniques & interpretation |
Though long delayed, this book represents the most complete picture possible of the Liechtenauer tradition of foot combat as it was recorded in the mid 15th century. It’s the text I wanted for my students when I was leading a study group, and I’m happy to finally offer it in print. I hope it serves in some small way to advance the study of Johannes Liechtenauer’s art.
Read MorePosted by Roger Norling | Aug 3, 2016 | Articles, Teaching & training methods, Teaching Methodology, Teaching Pedagogics |
While sounding like a simple thing to define, sparring can have quite a few and very different...
Read MorePosted by Arturo Camargo | Jul 16, 2016 | Articles, Fencing Culture, Teaching & training methods, Teaching Methodology, Teaching Pedagogics |
Few men are born brave; many become so through care and force of discipline. – Flavius...
Read MorePosted by Richard Marsden | Feb 12, 2016 | Articles, Teaching & training methods, Teaching Methodology, Teaching Pedagogics |
As a teacher, you prepare to show a student a technique from the treatise of your choice. You have...
Read MorePosted by Nathan Arries | Jan 29, 2016 | Articles, Teaching & training methods, Teaching Methodology |
My first contact with what I know now as HEMA took place in the spring of 2009. I was attending a...
Read MorePosted by Alexander Fürgut | Jan 23, 2016 | Articles, Fencing Culture, Teaching & training methods, Teaching Methodology |
This article describes how full contact martial arts handle sparring intensity like Mixed Martial Arts, Dog Brothers Martial Arts, Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu, Luta Livre, Freestyle wrestling, Kendo and what we can learn from this for HEMA.
Read MorePosted by Henrik Gyarmati | Dec 4, 2015 | Articles, Teaching & training methods, Teaching Methodology |
Prolog: Epic Meaning The goal of every HEMA-fighter is to “survive” a duel – fought with...
Read MorePosted by Luis Preto | Apr 24, 2015 | Articles, Teaching & training methods, Teaching Methodology, Teaching Pedagogics, Techniques & interpretation |
Tactical intelligence tends to be made out to be more complex than it actually is, by being seen as weapon specific. Furthermore, it also tends to lack specific and straight forward training guidelines … which has tactical skill...
Read MorePosted by Sven Horvatic | Apr 17, 2015 | Articles, Teaching & training methods, Training methods |
Should we use our off hand in order to further our skills as a fighter while also balance our muscle growth?
Read MorePosted by Richard Marsden | Mar 6, 2015 | Articles, Teaching & training methods, Teaching Methodology, Teaching Pedagogics |
The most knowledgeable of instructors can also be some of the least effective teachers. There are...
Read MorePosted by Mattias Nyrell | Feb 20, 2015 | Articles, Teaching & training methods, Training methods |
The wooden dummies we use for sword practice are to us what the boxing bag is for a boxer. They are a great tool for practising basic techniques such as cuts and thrusts, and improving precision. Construction These wooden...
Read MorePosted by Roger Norling | Feb 13, 2015 | Articles, Teaching & training methods, Teaching Methodology, Teaching Pedagogics, Teaching tips |
This is the third part of my brief article series on HEMA and pedagogics. Starting...
Read MorePosted by Roger Norling | Dec 28, 2014 | Articles, Teaching & training methods, Teaching Pedagogics, Teaching tips |
Continuing from what we examined in the first HEMA Pedagogics article where we looked at the...
Read MorePosted by Roger Norling | Nov 21, 2014 | Articles, Teaching & training methods, Teaching Pedagogics |
This three-piece article, while aimed more at teachers of HEMA is also relevant to students...
Read MorePosted by Robert Geißler | Oct 24, 2014 | Articles, Fencing Culture, Teaching & training methods |
This article is to some extent a reply to Γιώργος Ζαχαρόπουλος’s article in which he points out...
Read MorePosted by Roger Norling | May 6, 2014 | Articles, Meyer Articles, Meyer Halben Stangen, Study Articles, Teaching & training methods, Techniques & interpretation |
Here’s the workshop on Joachim Meyer’s quarterstaff held by me and my fellow GHFS member Mattias Moberg at the HEMAC Florentia event in March, in Florence, Italy. It has been edited down from a 3 hour workshop into a...
Read MorePosted by Roger Norling | Apr 1, 2014 | Articles, Meyer Articles, Meyer Halben Stangen, Teaching & training methods, Training exercises, Training methods |
In our Meyer staff class we have been forced to develop methods that meet the simple fact that in...
Read MorePosted by James Roberts | Feb 22, 2014 | Articles, Meyer Articles, Meyer longsword, Research articles, Study Articles, Teaching & training methods, Techniques & interpretation |
Over the last five years, I’ve given several workshops in both South Africa and Europe focused on sequencing the teaching of techniques from Joachim Meyer’s “Gründtliche Beschreibung… der Kunst des Fechtens”[i]. In my view, each...
Read MorePosted by Mike Cartier | Jan 17, 2014 | Articles, Fencing Culture, Teaching & training methods, Training methods |
Fencing with the Sword is nothing other than a discipline, wherein your force strives together with your sword in placement so that one with the other, using care and agility, artfulness, delicacy and manliness, are at need the...
Read MorePosted by Mike Cartier | Jan 10, 2014 | Articles, Fencing Culture, Teaching & training methods, Training methods |
“Fencing with the Sword is nothing other than a discipline, wherein your force strives...
Read MorePosted by Phil Crawley | Nov 29, 2013 | Articles, Teaching & training methods, Teaching Curriculum, Teaching Methodology |
An often overlooked aspect of historical fencing is how to go about turning all the information...
Read MorePosted by Rob Runacres | Aug 1, 2013 | Articles, Teaching & training methods |
The following are partnered drills for the cloak and rapier. It is vital that the attacker...
Read MorePosted by Luis Preto | May 30, 2013 | Articles, Teaching & training methods |
Humans attempt to make sense of their environment results, quite often, in the systematization of knowledge into boxes commonly (and quite wrongly) made out to be independent, as is the case with the existence of sport specific...
Read MorePosted by Kit Smith | Apr 26, 2013 | Articles, Teaching & training methods |
I first learned staff in the late eighties, and although I was not that interested in the provenance, as I recall my master learned it in Scouts as a child. I never had any documentation for it, but it was a simple system...
Read MorePosted by Roger Norling | Apr 19, 2013 | Articles, Fencing Culture, Psychology & Mentality, Teaching & training methods |
“If you want to learn how to fight properly and effectively with the long sword, so that you...
Read MorePosted by Roger Norling | Mar 11, 2013 | Articles, Meyer Articles, Meyer longsword, Teaching & training methods, Training exercises |
To begin with, just for clarification, this is not a typical article per se, but rather a text...
Read MorePosted by Alen Lovric | Jan 5, 2013 | Articles, Teaching & training methods |
HEMA, it can be said, is only in its second generation by now, though some claim to be in the fourth already. This makes us a very young Art, and even younger than other modern martial arts, since we have no precedent on which...
Read MorePosted by Alen Lovric | Dec 3, 2012 | Articles, Teaching & training methods |
This is a debate that has been heard by all of us one time or another, I believe: Should strength training be incorporated into HEMA, and how much of it should there be? The extreme usually goes towards having a minimum of...
Read MorePosted by Matt Galas | Oct 22, 2012 | Articles, Teaching & training methods |
One of the great things about online HEMA research is that you often end up finding interesting...
Read MorePosted by Roger Norling | Sep 12, 2012 | Teaching & training methods, Training exercises, Training methods |
<span data-mce-type=”bookmark” style=”display: inline-block; width: 0px; overflow: hidden; line-height: 0;” class=”mce_SELRES_start”></span> This is a very interesting exercise....
Read MorePosted by Christopher VanSlambrouck | Jul 2, 2012 | Articles, Teaching & training methods |
“Knowledge is not power. Power alone is power. What knowledge does is provide the means to determine where to focus that power, for maximum effect.” – Carl von Clausewitz [3] The gears of war turn throughout...
Read MorePosted by Luis Preto | May 2, 2012 | Articles, Teaching & training methods |
Throughout my years involved with martial arts I have seen, time and time again, instructors in the most varied arts who spar effectively but do not know how they do it. The reason I say this has to do with the fact that: I came...
Read MorePosted by Luis Preto | Apr 10, 2012 | Articles, Teaching & training methods |
Quite recently, while exchanging all sorts of points of view with everyone’s good friend Roger...
Read MorePosted by Roger Norling | Jan 21, 2012 | Articles, Meyer Articles, Meyer Halben Stangen, Teaching & training methods |
I thought it might interest some to see how a typical lesson plan for our Meÿer staff class in GHFS looks like. This is of course too much for a single 2 hour class and most of it will be practiced repeatedly through various...
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