Some thoughts on playing the victim
A problem that we commonly encounter in the training and teaching of martial arts in general, is...
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Fighting Successfully – Bridging The Gap Between Technique And Free Play
Did you ever face the situation that you trained a technique over and over, again and again and it just straight out refuses to come out during free play? Then you know the frustration if expectations and results don’t match.
Failing time and time again, because you can’t pull of what you should be able to doesn’t feel nice. It can be devastating and lead the most dedicated of us down a path of frustration. It can be a reason why people quit HEMA altogether.
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How to read minds and the value of tournaments
Some month ago a nearby group decided to run a small longsword tournament as part of some local...
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Fighting with a monkey ghost on your back
In our studies and practice of HEMA many of us do it to get a bit of a refuge from other things,...
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Fighting as a communicative skill
Since the elements described and explained up to now are properly just a beginning and primer...
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Use of opposite hand and muscle imbalance
Should we use our off hand in order to further our skills as a fighter while also balance our muscle growth?
Read MoreMaking a wooden dummy for swordsmanship practice
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...
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Review: Swordbag Liechtenauer
As much as I love the pioneering aspect of Historical Fencing some aspects of it have, at times,...
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Review: SPES Dussack Waster
Given how important the dusack has been both in the fencing schools and tournaments, all the way...
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Free Fencing exercises
In our Meyer staff class we have been forced to develop methods that meet the simple fact that in...
Read MoreThe Art of Control – Fechtschule Manifesto 2
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...
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Art of Control (Fechtschule Manifesto) Part 1
“Fencing with the Sword is nothing other than a discipline, wherein your force strives...
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Review: SPES HEMA Jacket – Axel P model
Looking at how the HEMA community looks today it is easy to forget how hard we have been working...
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Review: Black Lance 5-finger HEMA Gloves
One of the most elusive pieces of protective gear for HEMA, the Holy Grail if you will, is...
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A mentality of fear – and its importance to fighting
“If you want to learn how to fight properly and effectively with the long sword, so that you...
Read MoreReview: Where’s my fighting trousers?
“A telegram? Oh, dear. It seems someone has been “biting me”…? Fetch me my trousers at once! No, not those. Those are my time travel trousers. No, those are my tea trousers… That’s it! Those...
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Meyer freeflow exercises
To begin with, just for clarification, this is not a typical article per se, but rather a text...
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The Wreath or the Cash? On Tournament fighting
“Ey fåår Fächtare Krantz förn ändas Manlige Strijden. The Fighter shall not receive the...
Read MoreRope drill for HEMA.
<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 MoreFootwork exercises by Ilkka
I found these exercises interesting and will be adding some of this to what we already do in our training...
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Review: Arms & Armor Fechterspiel Sword
Swordsmith: Arms & Armor Arms & Armor have been making swords for practice and...
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Doing what we are told or what we are taught?
Here’s an old but still always relevant question for us HEMA practitioners to ask ourselves:...
Read MoreThe tools for the job
To understand the body mechanics involved in a technique we not only have to train our bodies so we are strong and agile enough, we also need to use tools that work together with our bodies in the appropriate manner. This may...
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Hands-on Preview: Pavel Moc Fechtschwert
HEMA has gone through a lot of progressive development in the last decade. The community is...
Read MoreReview: The Dave Rawlings/Knightshop Synthetic longsword – Pro-Line Extreme
Few HEMA-related products have caused as much debate as the Dave Rawlings/Knightshop range of Synthetic Swords. This comes quite natural as they were developed in close collaboration with the HEMA community, and the way we...
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Review: Zugadore poly sparring sword by Revival.us.
This waster came seemingly out of nowhere onto the market, at a time were we are seeing very quick...
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Review: Norrlands waster by Plastsmeden
The best longsword nylon wasters I have tried thus far were hand made by Pentti of GHFS....
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Review: Synthetic Longsword Type II by Purpleheart Armoury
This hand-made Synthetic Longsword II is actually a bit of an old Rolls Royce or a Bentley. The...
Read MoreReview: Synthetic Longsword Waster by Pentti of GHFS
I consider myself very fortunate having had the chance to follow the development and having been able to practice with the infamous Pentti nylon wasters, which in my experience is amongst the finest nylon sword simulators, if...
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Review: Scimitars Fencing Shoes
Finding good, suitable equipment for Hema is a problem we all wrestle with and there are few...
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