Motion and Motionality for Armed Combat
- Form from Function... or "Looking Good means Fighting Good"

A public Master class at CombatCon 2014
Las Vegas, NV
Thursday, June 12, 12pm-3pm

Join veteran Renaissance martial arts instructor John Clements in a special 3-hour training session for only $60.

Within all real fighting arts function comes before form. The “form” of Medieval and Renaissance armed combat -- especially swordplay -- is no exception. The source teachings of the Masters of Defence reveal key movements that provide vital precepts every student can apply. But many are missing the essential physicality of these actions or lacking their fluid application.




Using proven examples and demonstrable expertise in easy to grasp lessons, instructor John Clements provides the student with valuable drills and insightful exercises to help attain proficiency in the movements essential for greater prowess.

- Discover how to better incorporate subtle biomechanical truths about: Posture, Positioning, Footwork, and Stepping to augment your timing, distance, and leverage
- Gain greater understanding of how to integrate these aspects for elegantly brutal, efficiently vicious, and dynamic combat motion whatever your focus or historical weapon
- Achieve a greater appreciation for the historical principia central to higher-level practice of the craft including their little-known relationship to Renaissance geometry and music



Space is limited to the first 20 attendees*
Register now via PayPal 

*Equipment requirements: a straight double-handed blunt steel training blade or straight wooden longsword waster with cruciform-hilt. 

*Note: All attendees must be registered with CombatCon and must actively participate in lessons. No observers or spectators.


"Motus, this beautiful word, is the heart of swordsmanship
and the crown of the whole matter of swordsmanship..."
- Johannes Liechtenauer, 1389

“not only should the good fencer make himself skilled at attack and defence,
he should moreover give a beautiful form to his blows,
mingled with sweet movements of the body.” 
- Antonio Manciolino, 1531

“all cunning in this Art consisting more in feet than hands.”
- Sir George Hale, 1614