ProGauntlet: The Wait Is Over Their first pair shipped and delivered today ..read more

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Nice, but I’d rather find a cheap statuette régule for a fraction of the price of these bronze ones ..read more

So, who impressed you the most? The silver and gold winners of longsword division 1 of the first Nederlandse HEMA Kampioenschappen (NHK), the first national HEMA championship organised by the Dutch federation. Livestream video - gold final starts at 1.45.44 ..read more

Blade and Swords ..read more

Wonderful artwork for HEMA at the Peking university ..read more

Akademia Szermierzy - Becoming a perfect fencer (HEMA Powers part I) An interesting new HEMA video project leading into 2019 ..read more

It's time for tournaments to change: An analysis by Jason Barrons on tournament judging and format ..read more

The amusing new logo for the first HEMA club in the Netherlands AFAIK that focuses on Italian historical fencing ..read more

junck-ritter: There are two principal aspects to assessing a fencing action - the quantitative (was a hit made) and the qualitative (was the hit good?). It is a matter of ongoing grief for many fencers when their hits are not recognised on the opponent. Many believe more “objective” measures, such as applying chalk to the blade to leave a mark on the opponent when they are struck, or electric scoring methods, would relieve this problem. We need to develop beyond the mentality that the physical occurence of a touch is the most useful thing in determining the outcome of a fencing exchange. To t ..read more