Noble Science Academy - Dublin

Woah, now that the dust has settled and IHFL Dublin has come to a close it's time to take the foot off the gas, take a step back and reflect on an absolutely fantastic weekend!

Thank you so much to all who attended, competed, judged, helped with organisation and those who showed up and supported fencers. The level and quality of fencing we had was incredible, all our fencers gave it their all which made for some beautiful fencing, super tight, technical exchanges and an overall amazing experience for which we can't thank you enough!

Our winners for Saturday's Longsword Tournament were...

Tier A

🥇Gyorgy Mogyorosi (Blademasters Academy)
🥈Luke O'Keefe (Wrathful Peasants)
🥉Mike Prendergast (Historical Combat Academy)

Tier B

🥇Nathan Dean (Galway Gallowglass)
🥈Jordan Murphy (Blademasters Academy)
🥉Gyorgy Szabados (Blademasters Academy)

And our Rapier medalists are...

🥇Gleb Sidorov (Dublin HEMA Club)
🥈Nathan Dean (Galway Gallowglass)
🥉Will Marshall (Noble Science Academy Dublin)

Again, thank you to all who attended, competed and assisted in the organisation. We were delighted with how the event ran and cant wait to do it all again next year ⚔️

We hope to organise IHFL 2027 in the next few weeks and announce dates as soon as possible, we'd love to see familiar and new faces next year so do keep an eye on the page for details on that!

Happy Saturday Everybody!

Another great week of fencing at Noble Science Academy Dublin! We've been very busy with tournament prep, getting back into a rhythm with Sabre, welcoming new members and putting in hard work as usual!

We're exploring the use of hanging parries with Sabre as a counter to horizontal or rising cuts, using our opponents force against them by stopping their cut, keeping ourselves safe firstly and the coming around with a moulinet, striking them and transitioning back into a defencive guard!

We took a look at Nachreisen for our Longsword lessons, using our footwork to allow our opponents cuts to pass by before quickly re-entering measure, striking our opponent and coving their sword to prevent an afterblow.

If youd like to join us, or just drop inti a class to try HEMA get in touch with us by DM, or via the email address in our bio!

Sabre has made its return to the academy!

After a brief hiatus, we blew the dust off our sabres and had a crack at it again after several weeks studying dagger duringour Tuesday classes in its place. We took the chance to refamiliarise ourselves with our 6 cuts and their parries to get back into the swing of things so keep an eye on the page to see what we get up over the next few weeks with Sabre!

Tournament season is still upon us and we have a number national tournaments and events coming up very soon, so we're full steam practising our fundamentals starting with parry reposte, and getting comfortable parrying from uncommon guards and positions.

We've had a few new members joining us lately and alot of interest from prospective ones looking to join up, so now is the perfect time to get involved and learn alongside a group of beginners. Send us a message here or via the email in our bio and learn more on how to take part!

We're just about to bid farewell to March, just one class left this month and it'll be our in-house tournament, this time, Longsword!

With the end of the month in sight we've been wrapping up with our work on Abszeten and moving forward with our work on Fiores dagger and abrazare.

Continuing with our absetzen against a cut, we geared up and put our technique to the test againt fully committed strikes, relying on point control and structure to stop the percussive force of a fendente and keep ourselves covered with simultaneously landing our thrust in opposition!
Dagger has been a great addition to the academy, and has been met with lots of enthusiasm which is fantastic to see, we're very proud to have the ability to teach several weapons over multiple systems to our students and dagger is one rarely seen in a clubs curriculum! We're moving on to more technical lessons now, expanding on Fiores dagger system and the almost endless options on how to deal with our opponent, this time however we took the route of closing distance, entering a clinch and throwing them to the ground (safely of course)

St. Patrick's day meant we only had one training session this week which was unfortunate but we still made the most of this short week!

We've been moving forward with Abszeten, this time using it to counter a descending cut, really emphasising the importance of timing and structure in order to find our target, interrupt that cut at the right time and use our posture to keep us safe! We'll be looking at Abszeten more in the coming weeks before we move on to more single time counters in the form of Liechtenauers master cuts!

No dagger this week which was sorely missed, but we'll be back on Tuesday to continue through Fiores dagger vs unarmed and Abrazare!

Rapier took a bit of an interesting turn when we introduced Fabris to our students! This was a big change from our usual classes where we have been pulling from Giganti and Capo Ferro, but the unique posture and mechanics of Fabris was meant with a lot of interest! We'll be working more from Fabris and familiarising ourselves with his system over the next month or two!

If youd like to get involved in HEMA and learn more about Historical Fencing please get in touch either via the email in our bio or by DM! We're always excepting new members and would love to have you by for a class!

What a week!

We've been very busy here, the past week has been jammed with some great classes and fantastic work from our students! ⚔️

We finished up our lessons on Sprechfenster, covering Zu Fechten, Kreig and Abzug in detail, working through all stages of the fight, finally wrapping things up with more of our Abzug drill, making sure we can act effectively in Kreig and disengage safely once scoring a point on our opponent!
On Tuesday we started looking at Abszeten, by countering a thrust with a single time action, offsetting our opponents thrust while delivering our own!

We made more progress through Fiores dagger vs unarmed, looking at the Reverso and sottani along with their counters! Its been so much fun covering dagger in detail that we plan to extend our time with the system and really get stuck into Fiores dagger and abrazare system over the next few weeks!

In our Friday Rapier classes, we're nearing the end of our work on cuts and how to avoid, counter and parry them, taking a final look at cuts to the leg and how Cappo Ferro recommends dealing with them!

We've had several new members joining us the past few weeks, and more interest in people wanting to get involved, so now is the perfect time to join in and learn HEMA! Send us a message here on our socials or at [email protected] to learn how to get involved ⚔️