Hello ARMA!

[Jeremy Hart]

Hello there folks. My name is Jeremy, a recent(ish) transplant to the South-West of Michigan around Grand Rapids. I have a light background in stage-fighting, but as a History major, I didn't find it very satisfying and soon started looking for places like this.

About the time I found ARMA last year, I had an incident during a tornado in Battle Creek that saw half my Achilles's tendon torn in my left ankle, and stress fractures in the same foot on that side, which had been broken previously, and more recently dealing with a rotator cuff injury.

Needless to say, I had a lot of time for reading, and have used this site and many others to read over everything from I:33, Fiore, some on Silver and even the German longsword as well. But, now that the wife and doctor both see fit to let me off my leash, I'm actively looking to move from academic to practical knowledge.

I've contacted a member I found on here who was working with a study group out of Western Michigan University Kalamazoo near me, but i'm happy for any more info on members or groups you folks might know of near me, or any reading beyond (mostly) direct translations of the manuals and the like.

[Jaron Bernstein]

Hello there folks. My name is Jeremy, a recent(ish) transplant to the South-West of Michigan around Grand Rapids. I have a light background in stage-fighting, but as a History major, I didn't find it very satisfying and soon started looking for places like this.

About the time I found ARMA last year, I had an incident during a tornado in Battle Creek that saw half my Achilles's tendon torn in my left ankle, and stress fractures in the same foot on that side, which had been broken previously, and more recently dealing with a rotator cuff injury.

Needless to say, I had a lot of time for reading, and have used this site and many others to read over everything from I:33, Fiore, some on Silver and even the German longsword as well. But, now that the wife and doctor both see fit to let me off my leash, I'm actively looking to move from academic to practical knowledge.

I've contacted a member I found on here who was working with a study group out of Western Michigan University Kalamazoo near me, but i'm happy for any more info on members or groups you folks might know of near me, or any reading beyond (mostly) direct translations of the manuals and the like.

There is a person in Detroit named Kevin Reicks. He is interested getting started in the Art.

[Jeremy Hart]

Detroit is about 3-3.5 hours away from me depending on where... As much as i'd love to practice, that's a long drive i'd maybe be able to make once a month, likely only every few months. I've found a few local groups from searching a bit more, but one is defunct, the other appears to be limited to a local University, and the other is less historically based than I'd prefer. Tons of foil fencing academy's near my city though.

[Kevin Reicks]

Hi Jeremy. Jaron emailed me about you and yeah, I do live a great distance away. Do yourself a favor though and do what I did. Make a pilgrimage to Jaron's study group. Very informative and the "alive" training methods and technique is something to see for yourself. The youtube vids are great, but you really need to be there.

There might be a closer one to you in Illinois. Don't know. From Detroit, it was about a 4.5 hour drive with pit stops and I missed the nightmare of traffic on Interstate 23 going there but not so lucky coming home.

[Jaron Bernstein]

Hi Jeremy. Jaron emailed me about you and yeah, I do live a great distance away. Do yourself a favor though and do what I did. Make a pilgrimage to Jaron's study group. Very informative and the "alive" training methods and technique is something to see for yourself. The youtube vids are great, but you really need to be there.

There might be a closer one to you in Illinois. Don't know. From Detroit, it was about a 4.5 hour drive with pit stops and I missed the nightmare of traffic on Interstate 23 going there but not so lucky coming home.

There are many other ARMA study groups that make the Columbus one look cloddish by comparison, to say nothing of the leadership. Perhaps you might become the first member of what could become a future Motor City ARMA study group.