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Please elaborate on that a bit when you can, sounds very interesting.

i have several scars from HEMA and several from MMA/jiuJitsu.

Generally i am proud of them, you do not seek to get the scars but when they happen you live with it. Injuries are to be avoided not cultivated.

Rappier is spelled that way in Meyer, its a good way to differentiiate it from the true rapier Arms of Duistinction is kevin Mauer a former (as of last week ) ARMA member, he made most of our Dusacks, has made a bunch of longswords and rappiers for our group as well as for other ARMA members around ...

Contril is something Meyer gives us tools to gain skill in. He has cutting types of full and half and opposition to help get pinpoint skill in moving and stopping your blade. he also tells us that Zucken is the beginning of all deceptions. a full cut goes thru the target and a half cut stops the cut...

Meyer does indeed have Halberd, his polearms sections starts with staff/spear and then goes on to Halberd and then Pike. His halberd material is distinct it its cenceptual presentation, thee is nthing i have seen more comprehensive on the halberd. In our group we have a Halberd specialist in Kevin M...

take it easy in here fellas.

In case you doubt my abilities to savagely maul you all on the dueling field here is a video of me in action.

http://vids.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=vids.individual&videoid=35079606

One of my future goals is to work on one of the holy grails of HEMA French Longsword, but it will require a manual. i hold out hope that something maybe be found, but it may never. later french swords has sources but not the earlier stuff. There are french researchers out there scouring the librarie...

we will be meeting in central florida (orlando) in the next 2 weeks.
message me privately if you might be interested

I think what Gene is trying to say as that we as Americans have a little tradition we call "the talking stick which goes BOOM!" Its a great conversation starter (or stopper). all jokes aside if someone comes into your home with a weapon i would take that as a threat to your safety and your...

Meyer was a master at arms, he died while in the service of the Duke of Mecklenberg who also helped to get the Imperial credentials for the federfechter guild. I think that speaks for itself really as does the rest of the contents of the Meyer book.

The torunament rules in belgium in Meyer's time (Matt Galas' research) allow simultaneous hits, where the higher hit counts. So somebody who studied under Meyer could have been traveling to belgium for a tournament, and 'give his leg' to the enemy blow just to be able to hit the head an thus win th...

The Crossguard is a most wonderful part of the sword, it certainly was not created in vain. I don't know what people do without them frankly

um you could drop by the strassbourg city records office and look up any documents by Joachim meyer, he petitioned the city several times for the right to hold fechtschule events.
Just a thought that came to mind

get a pit bull or i would say a Halberd or longsword that cus and thrusts well. maybe an axe, capsicum peppr spray too is good to have to clear a room. preparation is your best defense , knife in every room, swords in every room that are usable and several angry dogs. get a wall around your house an...

I'm not sure I understand your commnts on Kali Grant Kali is the mother sword art of Arnis the stick fighting arts. The Dog Brothers are roughly under the Inosanto Filipino arts umbrellas which is a gathering of several Kali/Escrima styles. i myself am under that tree also. Stick fghing and sword fi...