Category: Kultur / culture
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My Methodology
Inspiration This post was inspired by a blogpost by historian and historical fencing instructor Adam Franti about methodology in HEMA. I recommend reading it. Don’t worry: it isn’t very long. In that post, Adam argues that all HEMA practitioners have a methodology even if they are not consciously aware of it. “Every action we take…
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Snazzy Smallswords
In this post, I simply want to share a selection of smallswords I like! For now, it only includes smallswords from the Metropolitan Museum of Art‘s collection. I might expand this post to include examples from other museums in the future. What is a smallsword? Smallswords, also known as court swords, are a category of…
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Reblog: Do rules spoil fencing? | Verderben Regeln das Fechten?
English: I highly recommend this blogpost by Anton Kohutovič from March 2025: https://longsword.academy/en/refereeing/conventions/ Anton was ranked second in the world in mixed & men’s steel longsword on HEMA Rating in 2017 and has been influential on the contemporary longsword fencing scene. The article is very long, but very informative. It covers the following topics: If…
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Cool Links
This is a non-exhaustive archive of links to things that I think are interesting and relevant for historical fencing. I’ll add to this list over time as I find more cool things that I don’t want to forget.
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Reblog: Risiken und Belohnungen | Risks and Rewards
Deutsch: Ich empfehle den hier verlinkten Blogpost „Risks and Rewards“ von Vincent. Jeder, der sich schon eine Weile mit dem historischem Fechten beschäftigt, hat schon einmal so einen Spruch gehört: „Das würdest du nicht tun, wenn dein Gegner ein scharfes Schwert hätte!“ oder „Das würdest du nicht tun, wenn du keine Fechtmaske aufhättest!“. Diese Klischees…
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Best Sword™
In another post I shared some thoughts about various attributes of sword design. Basically, different kinds of sword exist because no sword is optimized for all contexts and different people want different things out of a sword. In this light-hearted post, I share some of my favorite “best” swords. Why the longsword is the best…
Blume des Kampfes 