( HEMA ) Historical European Marital Arts Longsword School Of Houston
A bunch of people got some tournament-style practice in on Monday, courtesy of our Southern Historical Fencing League brethren visiting for the holiday. We ran one round of fights, then seeded a double elim bracket. We had 14 people, so Read More …
[NOTE: this was dashed off as a comment response in a thread elsewhere, and requires/assumes a lot of prior knowledge and training on how to safely perform each of the exercises mentioned, as well as how to build progression towards Read More …
[note: I have thoughts at the bottom on how learning to judge can be used to improve your own fencing.] Following on last night’s first intro to judging for a lot of folks, here’s an example of tournament judging from Read More …
[Excerpt from a HEMA discussion, where a NF person had read Steve Kamb’s Level Up Your Life, and wanted to apply the superhero alter-ego concept to his new HEMA venture.] You are probably familiar with the concept of gamification as Read More …
Friday nights, we run a relaxed, open-ended training session to let people kick back and unwind from the week in a constructive, sword-related way. No structure, no scheduled drills. People who show up choose to focus on something they noticed Read More …
