Craftyfighter's HEMA Blog

Feck it....I want a helmet. None of this piddly fencing mask shit for me. Why? Simple really...I hate concussions, I had a few and I don...

Sigh...I should like to go on record as saying that the HEMA/WMA uniform that is widely (though not wholly) adopted, is a really good thing....

Phew...been a fair spell ain't it? Sorry 'bout that and my apologies to you all. So I was chatting with StevieT last night and he...

Reposted from Mike's Indes IDC blog: There is perhaps something odd happening in Jorg-Wilhalm's Fechtbuch . The obvious answer is th...

In thinking about things I realized that I don’t truly consider myself a martial artist, or for that matter a fencer…and I definitely do...

For the record the evidence on the ground for the use of two equal length blades at the same time prior to the renaissance is scanty...I am ...

First we must admit that we know little about the behourd and what distinguished from a proper tournament or real combat. For the moment...