Women - Don't Give Em Attitude Sword Press

by Wes von Papineäu February 10, 2014

Talhoffer takes the Train DER KURIER (Vienna, Austria) 07 February 14 Rapier, Säbel und Pluderhose: Fechten wie die Musketiere (Anna-Maria Bauer) Dreynschlag, one of the 20 historical fencing groups in Austria, hosted 200 of their peers during their 10th annual "Dreyn Event" in Brigittenau. Combatants learned new skills and competed in rapier, sabre and pole-arms…

Standardised Sword Press

by Wes von Papineäu September 2, 2013

We were intrigued by a quote from a following article: “I am not a master; nobody certified me”. How do we as a community ‘know’ that our various schools and ‘Fechtschules’ are in fact teaching an authentic form of HEMA/WMA? And who ‘accredited’ the institution – if in fact accreditation as a HEMA/WMA study centre…