Association membership in Moscow?

[Andrey Lebedev]

Hello.
Can I join ARMA as Associate Member while I'm in Moscow, Russia? I want to get an answer on this on forum fisrt, instead of sending you registartion form, because I'm really far from North America so I'm not sure that I have any chance to be an ARMA member.
I've started to study german longsword about two years ago, and also I have a regular practice and sparrings.
In past I have studied kendo, and now have training in chinese fencing. In our group I've found a few people (including our trainer =) ) interested in European longsword, so every week as an part of training we study techniques of German fencing school.
I use "Sigmund Ringeck's Knightly Art of the Longsword" by David Lindholm and Peter Svard, translation of Goliath and Meyer as primary resources now.


Best regards, Andrey.

[Aaron Pynenberg]

Hello Andrey! Welcome. A few of our members speak Russian and soon I am sure they will post on here in your native tongue. It will depend I suppose on how invovled you will be able to be, the fact that you are located in Russia by itself, does not exclude you. I suggest that you e-mail John Clements, ARMA Director and put your question to him directly, OK? Until then you are more than welcome to post on the forum, and have access to a ton of info on the Website.- good luck in your journey!

[Andrey Lebedev]

Thank you for your answer, Aaron!
Ok, I will e-mail John Clements, that's good idea to speak with him directly about Association Membership.
About you website - it actually was my first journey to Western Martial Arts few years ago and in fact influenced me to start my study of longsword =)

[Jaron Bernstein]

You might contact Gene Tausk (a senior scholar and Russian speaker) and see what he has to say as well.

[Keith Culbertson]

ya pozdravlaiyou vam Andrey,

ok, I would do more Russian, but transcription is less than optimal and I have no Cyrillic keyboard. anyway your English is pretty darn good. Still feel free to e-mail me directly with any questions about interpretation, translation or just for friendly conversation

do svidanya, vsyevo khoroshevo

[Gene Tausk]

Hello.
Can I join ARMA as Associate Member while I'm in Moscow, Russia? I want to get an answer on this on forum fisrt, instead of sending you registartion form, because I'm really far from North America so I'm not sure that I have any chance to be an ARMA member.
I've started to study german longsword about two years ago, and also I have a regular practice and sparrings.
In past I have studied kendo, and now have training in chinese fencing. In our group I've found a few people (including our trainer =) ) interested in European longsword, so every week as an part of training we study techniques of German fencing school.
I use "Sigmund Ringeck's Knightly Art of the Longsword" by David Lindholm and Peter Svard, translation of Goliath and Meyer as primary resources now.


Best regards, Andrey.

Ochen rad znat', chto russkije interesujet v ARMA!

Feel free to email me and we can discuss forming an ARMA group v Moskve!

genet48766@aol.com

[Andrey Lebedev]

Thanks to all. I'm really glad to see such warm welcome!
Gene Tausk, I've sent a e-mail to John Clements already, but I'll also send e-mail to you now, so we'll can have more detailed discussion.

Da, kstati. Dlja zhelajushih popraktikovat'sja v russkom obsuzhdaja so mnoj fehtovanie - you're welcome =)