Highland Sword Fighting Guild - Historical European Martial Arts HEMA

We don’t only do broadsword!

Some fun armoured fighting ⚔️

Before I started this group I’d been training for about a year or so.. So almost 12 years of HEMA! I can confidently say that it’s been the single most important thing I’ve been involved in to help me evolve and grow as a martial artist and as a human. Looking forward to 20 years 😎👍.

we finally have a website!

highlandhema.ca

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Capt. G. Sinclair: uncovering the illusive author of Anti-Pugilism By Maxime Chouinard For years, the identity of the author of the 1790 broadsword manual “Anti-pugilism”, retitled “Cudgel-playing” in 1800, had puzzled researchers. The 1800…

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Charles Roworth & The Art of Defence on Foot - The Origin Story The Art of Defence on Foot, with Broadsword and Sabre is one of the most important and influential sources on British military or sabre swordsmanship. In thi...

Yesterday marked the anniversary of Capt. Alfred Hutton’s death. He studied many weapons but initially learned foilplay from the Angelo dynasty, as did his father, as a youth in London.
He would go on to maintain fencing in the popular imagination in Britain, eventually founding the Amateur Fencing Association which led to the modern Olympic sport, as well as writing several texts that would inspire the historical fencing movement in the 1990s