ChrisN
Yellow Belt
Hello Everyone.
Quick introduction.
My names Chris I’m in my mid-thirties and I’m one of those crazy HEMA chaps. Nowadays it’s mostly medieval. Long sword (Italian and German), Sword and buckler (German 133), Messier (German the long knife), some knife work (again from the Italian school) but you can also include the Small Sword (Georgian. Mostly French although I do love McBanes work). Some Georgian staff training. I’ve also done a small amount of pugilism. With any luck I should be getting to a seminar/training weekend on Native American Indian skills and fighting in a couple of months. I guess you could say I can see similarities between all the fighting skills and I’m keen to experience not only the physical side of things but to learn how and why they developed. (When I type that out it does seem like alot)
I tend to think with HEMA if you only study one thing its easy to stagnate and stop improving.
However. As part of the process in going through to get my coaches qualification, I’ve done what I can to interpret a Victorian cane defence manual, and teaching that to the HEMA study group I’m part of.
That’s how I found this place. I’ve been using white wax wood from Playwell a UK based company who very sadly lost their warehouse in a fire the other week. While personally I really like the wood, one of them broke and I really did not like the way it turned into something Buffy could use. So I’ve been looking for alternatives and I come across an old post on here comparing rattan to hardwoods. Looks like most of you like Rattan.
So in a nut shell that’s me.
Quick introduction.
My names Chris I’m in my mid-thirties and I’m one of those crazy HEMA chaps. Nowadays it’s mostly medieval. Long sword (Italian and German), Sword and buckler (German 133), Messier (German the long knife), some knife work (again from the Italian school) but you can also include the Small Sword (Georgian. Mostly French although I do love McBanes work). Some Georgian staff training. I’ve also done a small amount of pugilism. With any luck I should be getting to a seminar/training weekend on Native American Indian skills and fighting in a couple of months. I guess you could say I can see similarities between all the fighting skills and I’m keen to experience not only the physical side of things but to learn how and why they developed. (When I type that out it does seem like alot)
I tend to think with HEMA if you only study one thing its easy to stagnate and stop improving.
However. As part of the process in going through to get my coaches qualification, I’ve done what I can to interpret a Victorian cane defence manual, and teaching that to the HEMA study group I’m part of.
That’s how I found this place. I’ve been using white wax wood from Playwell a UK based company who very sadly lost their warehouse in a fire the other week. While personally I really like the wood, one of them broke and I really did not like the way it turned into something Buffy could use. So I’ve been looking for alternatives and I come across an old post on here comparing rattan to hardwoods. Looks like most of you like Rattan.
So in a nut shell that’s me.
