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Ask about the Renaissance Martial Arts Lecture Series. Email the ARMA Director at: ARMAdirector@aol.com
Email the ARMA Director at: ARMAdirector@aol.com
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Director John Clements John Clements is a leading authority on historical fencing and one of the world’s foremost practitioners of Medieval and Renaissance fencing. He is a long-time martial-artist, Medieval swordsman, and Renaissance fencer who has been studying for over twenty-one years. He has practiced cut & thrust swordsmanship and rapier-fighting for more than seventeen years. John has researched swords in 7 countries and taught sword seminars in 5 countries. Since summer 1997 he has taught public courses and private lessons in Houston. John lectures and writes on European swords and has authored numerous articles on swords and weapon fighting for several magazines including: Renaissance Magazine, Tactical Knives, Karate International, Histoire' Medievale, L’art de la Guerre, Hammerterz Forum, Hop-Lite, and Sword Forum International. John was also major contributor on historical fencing as well as member of the editorial board to the new Martial Arts of the World encyclopedia from ABC-CLIO Press (October 2001). John has presented sword seminars and workshops in New York, San Francisco, Chicago, Houston, Dallas, Orlando, Maryland, Atlanta, Los Alamos, Princeton, as well as Lousiana, Calgary, Krakow, and Munich. He has also presented demonstrations of Medieval and Renaissance martial arts at the Royal Armouries in Leeds, and the Wallace Collection Museum in London, as well as exhibited at Oxford University. He also instructed cadets and officers in historical fencing at West Point and was a keynote presenter at the Sword 2000 event of the New England Bladesmiths Guild, the Schola St. George Medieval Swordsmanship Symposium 2001 in San Francisco, has been featured twice on The History Channel, and is an Advisory Board member of Swordplay Symposium International. He also presented at the 2001 Texas Medievalists Association annual conference in San Antonio, at the Thirteenth Biennial New College of South Florida conference on Medieval-Renaissance Studies 2002, and has lectured for the History, Anthropology, and Military Science departments at Texas A&A University. John also lectured on historical combat at the Origins gaming convention '02 and has consulted for the industry. Mr. Clements is a patron member of the Oakeshott Institute and has taught historical European martial arts to underprivileged kids at a college-prepatory academy in Houston. Previously, in 1993 John taught two semesters on swordsmanship at Western Nevada Community College. John has personally consulted with leading experts and scholars in Europe, practiced with the Fight Interpreters at the Royal Armories, and privately toured several famous arms museums and sword collections. He is the author of the books Medieval Swordsmanship: Illustrated Methods & Techniques (Paladin Press, Nov ’98) and Renaissance Swordsmanship: The Illustrated Use of Rapiers and Cut-and-Thrust Swords (Paladin Press, March '97). John first began doing historical fencing in 1980 and currently trains in long-sword, sword & shield, spear, sword & buckler, sword & dagger and rapier & dagger, and is an ardent promoter of contact-weapon sparring and test-cutting with sharp replicas. In the past 5 years, John has had the opportunity to practice with actual historical swords and has handled more than 150 antique European blades from the 12th to 17th centuries in private collections, auction houses, and museum storerooms across five countries. John is a member of the British Arms & Armor Society and helped pioneer the realistic use of historical wooden training swords (wasters) and a true martial arts approach within the modern study of period fencing texts. In September 1994 John took first place in the Advance Weapon-Sparring competition of the US National's Kung Fu tournament, in Orlando, Florida. Clements has committed his life to advancing and promoting the study of Medieval and Renaissance martial arts. He presently teaches and researches on historical fencing full time and is busy at work on several book, video, and consulting projects. To quote ARMA instructor John Clements: "As a historical fencer and Western martial artist, I can think of nothing more satisfying than to simply declare, 'Yes, I am a swordsman.'"
ARMA Deputy Director
Jeff has performed Medieval long-sword and dagger fighting presentations at the Wallace Collection museum in London as well as at the Royal Armouries in Leeds, UK. He has demonstrated great-sword technique at the Swordplay Symposium International conference, performed at the Sword 2000 event in upstate NY, has twice worked with both John Waller and Keith Ducklin of the Royal Armories, and demonstrated ARMA fighting at the ’98 Mardi Gras Martial Arts Camp and the Atlanta Medieval & Renaissance Martial Arts Expo 2001. He has worked with leading armorer Rob Valentine and has practiced with actual antique European arms. Jeff Basham has twice appeared with ARMA on The History Channel. Jsbbasham@juno.com
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