Finally, after a lot of hard work we have now announced the awardees of the HEMA Scholar Awards 2014. This award is given to researchers, transcribers, translators, interpreters and instructors for work published in English in the preceding year and includes the categories Lifetime Achievement, Best...

I am releasing this article a bit early as it is relevant to the longsword workshop I am holding together with Robert Molin at Swordfish this weekend. The topic this time is "Shifting grips" and it actually finally includes a video. http://www.hroarr.com/the-onion-basics-of-european-longsword-part-1...

With apologies for the delay in posting last week's article, here is a new article in the Onion series on basic German longsword. This time the topic is "stances". I hope you like it! Halfway through this series now and very close to actually shooting some videos, starting with the next article. htt...

Please help spread this so we can make a difference! I think it is a great way to help people in desperate need while celebrating the chivalric ideals of both the knights/nobles and the burgher fencing guilds, which both emphasized helping the weak and poor, and in particular widows and orphans. So ...

This time I ask you to really take your time and consider this new project. Also, I would like to ask all of your assistance in spreading this to your club, your organization and fighting friends: It never ceases to amaze me what incredible people that make up the Historical Fencing community. Your ...

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 had over the last few years with the help of all the authors and readers...

Might be a good idea to post a comment I made on FB here as well. :) "A comment regarding the HEMA Scholar Awards. I would like for people to look at this not as a competition of researchers, but as a way of recognizing the good, hard work of great people. We could just as well have given away 20 aw...

Finally we have a decision on the awardees of the HEMA Scholar Awards 2013. After careful consideration of all nominations sent in by the HEMA community five excellent researchers and instructors have been selected. Who they are? Well find out by reading about them here http://www.hroarr.com/hema-sc...

The jury is now set up so it is high time to start nominating people finally!

http://www.hroarr.com/hema-scholar-awards/nominations/

http://www.hroarr.com/hema-scholar-awar ... 2013-jury/

Start spreading the news. Share it, talk about it.

The awards is not to be considered as a competition, but rather as a way of promoting the hard work of researchers by acknowledging that they have done something great.

http://www.hroarr.com/hema-scholar-awar ... ards-2013/

Apart from the census, we also have a HEMA club & organizations list kept here: http://www.hroarr.com/

I figured this might interest some of you guys too: "From at least as far back as the early to mid 1400s, all the way up until about the French Revolution in 1789, longsword fencers have been practicing with fechtschwerte, or what is today commonly called federschwert, a specific sword type with a f...

Concussive blows of course have an effect, but what is debated, and with good reason, is the effect a sword has on plate/maille armour with padding, and in particular the effect a blow from a sharp "period" sword has on the meat and bone underneath all this. On top of this, we have no real...

Judged bouts, with one "head" judge and 2-3 side judges.

Well, part of it is because we felt that the easily available nylon wasters introduce artefacts in the fencing and thus lowers the quality of fencing. The Purplehearts wasters are unfortunately a bit expensive for Europeans and Pentti no longer produces his wasters. Furthermore, for competitions, wh...

Thanks for the kind compliments here! We do have some great instructors and fencers. We are just getting prepared for the Swordfish event now, were we will be having tournaments and workshops with about 20 instructors from all over Europe, and the US. This is an old "poster" that needs som...

Glad you liked it Christian! Yeah, that clip shows at least a part of the beautiful simplicity of the Liechtenauer fencing. It only shows various techniques following a regular Zornhauw (wrath cut), which is one of the five master cuts that can be used to displace the opponent's blade and break guar...

A “couple” of things popped into my head while following this thread. Sorry for the mass of words. First of all, although some fechtbuchen of course were in part used to market the fencing teachers to the nobility, this goes for only a few of the early fencing books, like Fiore and Talhoffer. Seekin...