Dec 14th 2011

Christmas goodies!

Finally, we have been given access to Bonaventura Pistofilo's treatise on pike, halberd and arquebusier, entitled "Oplomachia". You can download it here.

Nov 18th 2011

For the first time: Scans of Theodori Verolini!

Herzog August Bibliothek has kindly provided the GHFS with scans of Theodori Verolini's Meyer and Petter-inspired manual of 1679 and allowed Hroarr to distribute these files as well.

Oct 27th 2011

Reprint translation of Joachim Meyer!

Join our Facebook group which we initiated to encourage the publisher to make a second print of the out-of-stock Forgeng-translation of Joachim Meyer's 1570 manual!

Sep 13th 2011

Permission from Biblioteka Jagiellonska.

The Biblioteka Jagiellonska in Krakow, Poland, has just given their approval for Hroarr to distribute HEMA material such as their Gladiatoria manuscript MS Germ.Quart.16

Sep 10th 2011

New review up

This time a review of Pavel Moc's Lichtenauer steel Longsword

NOW: FECHTSCHULEN Matt Galas "On the After blow" in European Fencing Traditions Kunst Fechter's blog article on "What exactly were the Fechtschulen?" Kevin Maurer's blog article on "Who were the Freifechter?" Christopher Amberger on Fechtschulen 16th-century Germany Kevin Maurer's article on "Insights into the fechtschulen of the MarxBruder and Federfechter's Guilds" "Did Medieval Commoners Practice with Fighting Masters?" by Hugh Knight Discussion on "Fechtschule" on Swordforum Wikipedia on Marxbr�der Wikipedia on Federfechter "Sechs Fechtschulen" by Karl Wassmansdorff - 1870 "Der Ritterlichen Freyen Kunst der Fechter" by Christoff R�sener (Master of the Longsword of the Brotherhood of St Marx) - 1589

Interesting images of sword grip and wrist angles (Updated). Collection of images showing variations of Vom Tag Map of locations related to fencing masters and landsknechts. (Work in progress) Map of locations related to the Teutonic Order. (Work in progress) Map of locations related to the Hanseatic League. (Work in progress) Images of Wallhausen 1614: Training for battle field.

Welcome.

This site focuses on different aspects of Historical European Martial Arts. It is meant to serve both as a help to active HEMA practitioners and as a source of inspiration for people that are unfamiliar with this form of Martial Arts.

If you would like to learn more about HEMA, then please read about Historical European Martial Arts on Wikipedia. Also, this great web documentary on Renaissance Martial Arts will give you a good understanding of what HEMA is all about.

Upcoming events 2011.

Feb. 10 - 12 Dreynevent 2012, Vienna, Austria Arranged by Dreynschlag

Feb. 24 - 26 SWASH 2012, Leeds, UK Arranged by British Federation of Historical Swordplay

March 10 -11 Vasaslaget, Uppsala, Sverige Arranged by Uppsala Historiska F�ktskola

March 16 -18 Fechtschule America, Houston USA Arranged by Schwert am Schwert

May 10-13 Dijon 2012, Dijon, France Arranged by De Taille et d'Estoc

May 10-13 Skunks 2012, Rybnik, Poland Arranged by Vectir

June 16 - 17 Longpoint 2012, USA Arranged by Maryland KDF and the HEMA Alliance

August 4 - 12 3rd World Wide Open Longsword Championship 2012 H�lsede, Germany. Arranged by Arts of Mars

August 17- 19 Fight Camp Coventry, UK. Arranged by Schola Gladiatoria

Supported by Gothenburg Historical Fencing School

Important notice!

In an attempt to build a stronger case for the HEMA community when speaking to manufacturers of protective gear and sparring swords, media, and other Martial Arts disciplines, I have initiated a survey to calculate the numbers of Hema practitioners all over the world.

The hope is that we some day can have fencing masks and gloves that are designed for our specific purposes. In other words improve on the gear we already are using.

Judging from the fact that all Fencing Equipment manufacturers see enough reason to produce coaching gear to a rather small target group, we ought to be able to convince them of a market opportunity here. Just recently Allstar has actually begun producing some equipment for our specific purposes. Which is quite exciting.

The current results can be found here: The Great Big Global Hema Census

If your club has no numbers attached to it, or if your club isn't even listed, then please don't hesitate to contact me.

editors note: It's quite exciting to see that the Hroarr site now has had visitors from 58 countries, including:

Australia, Austria, Belarus Belgium, Brazil, Bulgaria, Canada, Chile, China, Croatia, Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Finland France, Germany, Greece, Hong Kong, Hungary, Iceland, India, Ireland Italy, Japan, Jordan, Luxembourg, Malta, Mexico, Netherlands, New Zealand, Nigeria, Norway, Pakistan, Phillipines, Poland, Portugal, Puerto Rico, Romania, Russia, Senegal, Serbia, Singapore, Slovakia, Slovenia, South Africa, South Korea, Spain, Suriname, Switzerland, Thailand, Turkey, UK, Ukraine, United Arab Emirates, United States and Urugay.

I'm glad you're all here!

Please remember to spread the link and help in contributing with good material!