Fee Structures by Sigmund Werndorf. https://www.hemaalliance.com/fee-structures. Part of the How to HEMA project sponsored by the HEMA Alliance. Options and ways to put together your membership fees. How to HEMA - A resource on how to start, run, and grow HEMA Clubs https://www.hemaalliance.com/club-resource-index Like us on facebook at HEMA-Cast E…

When and How to Start Thinking About Money by Sigmund Werndorf. https://www.hemaalliance.com/thinking-about-money. Part of the How to HEMA project sponsored by the HEMA Alliance. Things to consider when it comes to money, including what you might need to spend money on and how to make money for the club. How to HEMA - A resource on how to start, ru…

The HEMA-Cast Rides Again! This episode was recorded at Klopfterfecht 2023 – The Returnening. Robin Beck – Robin is a member of Maryland Kunst des Fechtens (https://www.marylandkdf.com/). We got to chat about fencing as we become fencers of a certain age and injury & recovery. Geoff Ebbert – Geoff is a member of L'Arte Della Bellica Berks (https://…

Training Safely by Sean Ellis. https://www.hemaalliance.com/training-safely Part of the How to HEMA project sponsored by the HEMA Alliance. Safety policies for the physical and social safety of your club members. How to HEMA - A resource on how to start, run, and grow HEMA Clubs https://www.hemaalliance.com/club-resource-index Like us on facebook a…

Growing Your Club by Jesse Kulla. https://www.hemaalliance.com/growing-your-club Part of the How to HEMA project sponsored by the HEMA Alliance. Ways to grow your club, both with external opportunities and events, and internal growth. How to HEMA - A resource on how to start, run, and grow HEMA Clubs https://www.hemaalliance.com/club-resource-index…

Finding a Place to Train by Rebecca Glass. https://www.hemaalliance.com/location Part of the How to HEMA project sponsored by the HEMA Alliance. Types of locations to look for and choose from for your club practices. How to HEMA - A resource on how to start, run, and grow HEMA Clubs https://www.hemaalliance.com/club-resource-index Like us on facebo…

Club Gear: Where to Start by Julie Gaunt. https://www.hemaalliance.com/club-gear Part of the How to HEMA project sponsored by the HEMA Alliance. Considerations to make when deciding how much and what kind of gear to purchase for your club. How to HEMA - A resource on how to start, run, and grow HEMA Clubs https://www.hemaalliance.com/club-resource-…

Creating an Instructor Base by Justin Warbeck. https://www.hemaalliance.com/creating-an-instructor-base. Part of the How to HEMA project sponsored by the HEMA Alliance. Benefits of recruiting students into instructor roles, what it means to be an instructor, and how to train potential instructors. How to HEMA - A resource on how to start, run, and …

What Kind of HEMA Club Do You Want? by Kiana Shurkin. https://www.hemaalliance.com/what-kind-of-club. Part of the How to HEMA project sponsored by the HEMA Alliance. Ten fundamental questions to help you determine the type of group you would like to build. How to HEMA - A resource on how to start, run, and grow HEMA Clubs https://www.hemaalliance.c…

How to Start a HEMA Club by Sigmund Werndorf. https://www.hemaalliance.com/how-to-start-a-club The first article of the HEMA Alliance's “How To HEMA” project, walking you through the various topics you should consider when starting a HEMA club. How to HEMA - A resource on how to start, run, and grow HEMA Clubs https://www.hemaalliance.com/club-reso…

The HEMA-Cast Rides Again! This episode was recorded at Klopfterfecht 2023 – The Returnening. Gabriel Moreno – Gabe is a former member of L'Arte Della Bellica in the Reading Area of Pennsylvania (https://ladfencing.com/). He can also be found online as the Forlorn Raven on Facebook (https://www.facebook.com/theforlornraven/) and Instagram (https://…

The HEMA-Cast Rides Again! This episode was recorded at Klopfterfecht 2023 – The Returnening. Christian Büttner – Christian is an instructor with Maryland Kunst des Fechtens (https://www.marylandkdf.com/). He currently teaches Saber and Fundamental Longsword. We got a chance to chat about being able to step out of the instructor role, and how rare …

The HEMA-Cast Rides Again! This episode was recorded at Klopfterfecht 2023 – The Returnening. Pax Girdsman/John Crum – Pax is a member of Maryland Kunst des Fechtens (https://www.marylandkdf.com/) as well as a twitch Streamer (https://www.twitch.tv/geekparagon). If you want to contact Pax about visiting your club to give his talk, you can contact h…

Jason L Cook – Jason is the instructor for The Exiles New Englad. You can find more information about the Exiles at https://the-exiles.com/, They also have a youtube channel THE EXILES found at https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCQzbN04ZUlk13rX1SasGk-w/feed Like us on facebook at HEMA-Cast or on twitter @HEMAcast E-mail us at HEMApodcast@gmail.com Li…

Jess Finley – You can find more information about Jess Finley on her instructor page https://www.facebook.com/JessFinleySwords/. The Ritterkunst Turnhalle can be found at http://www.ritterkunst.com/ . You can contact Jess about an intensive through her Patreon at https://www.patreon.com/jessfinley Kimberleigh Roseblade – Kimmie's instructor page ca…

Justin Mingo – Has been studying HEMA for ~4 years now and is a part of NYHFA and L'Arte NYC. You can find more information about NYHFA http://www.newyorklongsword.com/. You can find more information about L'Arte NYC at http://ladfencing.com/ or on their facebook page http://facebook.com/LarteNYC McKenzie Ewing – Has been a part of HEMA for ~8 year…

Adam Franti – is the instructor for the Lansing Longsword Guild from Lansing Michigan. You can find more information about LLG at their Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/lansinglongsword/ ; Their Youtube - https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCT0CcJsagigMeZTrhM_b-xw/ ; Or via e-mail at lansinglongsword@gmail.com If you'd like to give a listen to th…

Short show notes for this episode. I got to interview Youval and Maarten about the ProGauntlet. The ProGauntlet is available for PreSale now. Youval Kupiers And Maarten Kamphuis – the makers of the ProGauntlet. You can find more information and order a presale of the ProGauntlet on their website https://progauntlet.shop/. For our American listeners…

Charles Lin – Charles is an instructor with Capital Kunst des Fechtens, https://www.capitalkdf.org. At Longpoint 2019 he taught two classes on Urban Violence in Medieval Germany. http://www.fightlongpoint.com/news/2019/3/18/charles-lin-on-urban-violence-in-medieval-germany Charles also writes a Blog, Practice and Art. And hosts a HEMA Roundtables P…

Robert Charrette is awesome. Find more information about him on Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/SchermitoreCharrette/ . Or find more information on wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_N._Charrette . You can find more information about the Chivalric Fighting Arts Symposium 2019 at https://companionsofthesevenswords.regfox.com/chivalr…

Cheating with my show notes today, just copying the relevant parts of the script for you. ;-) Better show notes next time. Julie Olsen is an instructor with Athena School of Arms. You can find more information about Athena at their website, http://athenaschoolofarms.org/. Athena, as well as Forte, and Boston Armizare put on Iron Gate Exhibition. Re…

Connor Kemp-Cowell is the lead instructor for the Philadelphia Common Fencers Guild. You can find more information about the Philly Common Fencers on facebook at https://www.facebook.com/groups/phillycommonfencersguild/ Steve Massaroni is a coach for Boston Armizare. He also had a role helping to run the tournaments at IGX 2018. You can find more i…

Brief show notes for today's episode just to get the episode out. Ryan Zukowski is a member of the Long Island Historical Fencing Society. You can find more information about the LIHFS at http://www.longislandlongsword.com/ or on Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/LIHFS/ Tea Kew is a member of Cambridge HEMA in the UK. https://www.academyofhistor…

Experience is all around us and is what makes the community get better and better as the years go on. Today's episode has the voice of two experienced members of the community. Arto Fama is an instructor with Zwaard & Steen. You can find more information about Zwaard & Steen at https://www.zwaard-steen.org/. Arto has also been named to the Nordic D…

All about armor in today's episode. I finally got a chance to interview Bill Frisbee after a couple of years of trying and just missing each other. Bill Frisbee is runs New Hampshire KDF and Fechtschule Frisbee. You can find more information about both of them on Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/groups/NewHampshireKDF/ and https://www.facebook.…

We're featuring interviews from Swordsquatch 2018 from both ends of the experience spectrum. Cody Schuler is a newer fencer, and Sven Lugar has decades of experience. Erik Von Essen is an instructor and founding member of SwordSquatch. You can find more information about the Lonin League at https://lonin.org/. SwordSquatch is a yearly event put on …

We're featuring interviews from Swordsquatch 2018 from both ends of the experience spectrum. Cody Schuler is a newer fencer, and Sven Lugar has decades of experience. Cody Schuler is a member of Kulshan HEAM. You can find Kulshan HEMA online at https://www.kulshanhema.com/. You can keep up with Cody on his instagram at https://www.instagram.com/pgo…

We're finishing up Study in Steel 2018 and a one off interview from Give a Girl a Sword, hosted by Men at Arms Martial Arts. Broderick Stocks is a member of Warriors of Ash. You can find Warriors of Ash online at WarriorsofAsh.com. Broderick is still studying and practicing HEMA, and podiumed for the first time at Queen's Gambit with 3rd place in s…

I'm done moving and back to putting together episodes from the back log of interviews. Today's interviews are from Study in Steel 2018. We have Daniel León and Rebecca Glass. Daniel León is the instructor for Scuola Gladiatori in Quito Ecuador. There he teaches Tang Soo Do as well as longsword and is a Schola St George Affiliate. You can get in tou…

Sorry for the abbreviated show notes. It's been a long day and I wanted to get this out to you. Matt Stinson from Bold City Longsword. More information about them at https://www.jacksonvillehema.com/ and on facebook at https://www.facebook.com/BoldCityLongsword Zachary Springer founder of HEMAPE and from Schola St George Savannah. HEMAPE can be fou…

We are kicking off season 2 with an episode 0 introducing Connor Dillon who will be helping me to put together, edit down, and prepare new episodes. This is just a nice introductory episode to talk about what we are looking to do with the HEMA-Cast and where we are going to take season 2. We look forward to putting out another episode next week (wi…

*THIS IS NOT A HEMA-CAST EPISODE* This is a pilot episode for a potential new Podcast from Firefly Bookstore. Matthew Williams is co-owner of Firefly Bookstore in Kutztown Pennsylvania. He regularly puts on events in Kutztown with local authors, and is a close personal friend of mine. He and I have spoken about doing Community Radio many times in t…

This is the End! This is the end of what I am arbitrarily calling Season 1 of the HEMACast. Season 2 will start up again on a biweekly schedule at the end of July or the Beginning of August. Now that that's out of the way, I can introduce our 2 interviews. At IGX 2016, I got to interview Charles Murdock and Will Del Solar. Charles Murdock is an ins…

The Spirit of HEMA is all about the camaraderie between fighters, the growth in the community, and the go get it done attitude that makes HEMA special. Josh Furrate, Connor Richardson, and Ashanti Ziths exemplify this spirit, without even trying. It was a pleasure to share their stories. Josh Furrate is a member of Ordo Pricinctus out of Baton Roug…

Wrestling and Grappling, or as it can be called in a historical context Ringen (German sources) or Abrazare (Italian Sources), are an integral part of Historical combat. And there are many great books and articles that you can find to support this idea. So in that spirit, we spoke with Tim Hall of CKDF and Douglas Perritt of VAF all about Ringen. T…

Excuses, excuses, excuses. The podcast is not abandoned, I've just been busy. More episodes are coming, don't worry!

I have made many friends in HEMA, but today's episode features 3 friends that I made fairly early on in my HEMA Career. John Morahn, Greg Fasolino, and Nick Murro are three people that I respect and admire, and because of that, I wanted to interview them and share their stories with the rest of the HEMA community. John Morahn is an instructor with …

Jayson Barrons is the president of the HEMA Alliance. The HEMA Alliance (HEMAA) is a service organization for the Historical European Martial Arts community. It is incorporated as an educational non-profit in order to provide a wide range of services from a stable core whose educational mission is legally bound by open bylaws and democracy. Jayson …

From Memorial Day weekend until June 27th, Broken Plow Pittsburg Sword Fighters hosted Peter Als Nerving and Fanni Baranyi and their Historical Equestrian Martial Sports Seminar at Double M Gaited Horses in Renfrew, PA. Each weekend they taught swordfighters how to ride and the basics of mounted combat. I got a chance to attend the first seminar an…

Cédric Hauteville sat down with me at IGX 2016 to discuss his Youtube Documentary - Back to the Source. We got a chance to talk about some motivations for putting together the documentary and some difficulties with putting it all together. Cédric is a member of the English Martial Arts Academy which can be found online at http://www.englishmartiala…

International competitors Anton Kohutovič, Martin Tibenský, Sergey Kultaev, and Alexander Stankiewics attended IGX 2016 to compete and demonstrate their fencing skill and training, taking the top 3 spots in the IGX open Longsword competition. Anton Kohutovič and Martin Tibenský are from The Fencing Guild of Trnava in Slovakia. The fencing guild of …

We wrap up the last of the Longpoint 2016 interviews with the first of the IGX 2016 interviews, and a special interview from MARS this past weekend. Steven Hirsh is the founder and fitness coach of Athena School of Arms from Boston Massachusetts. He was the last of our Longpoint 2016 interviews and we talked about goals in training and running a HE…

Longpoint 2016 interviews are almost wrapped up with Logan Black and Ben Jarashow. Logan Black is the blacksmith for Black Horse Blades out of Wisconsin. His work horse feder is making waves in the HEMA community since it came out, and we got to talk about steel and swords. You can find Black Horse Blades online at http://www.blackhorseblades.com/,…

Marshall Strong and Zachary Springer from Schola St. George Savannah, join Matt Stinson at the 3rd Team Georgia regional meeting. They talk about the judging culture and training of judges in Georgia. As well as their introductory curriculum in Savannah. Matt Sennet of Maryland Kunst des Fechtens Harford County sat down with me at Longpoint last ye…

Aaron Pynenberg, Travis Mayott, and Stephen Cheney sat down with me at Longpoint to talk about What HEMA is to each of us. From that vague question we had a fantastic discussion about where HEMA has been, where it's going, what makes up HEMA to each of us. If we had the time, we could have continued to discuss HEMA for much longer, but I hope that …

Zachary Springer and Michael Chidester are our guests today. Zachary Springer is an undergraduate researcher who brought a team with him to Longpoint 2016 to do a sports science research project collecting heart rate and accelorimetry data. Armstrong State University can be found at https://www.armstrong.edu/ Michael Chidester is the Editor-in-chie…

Peter Bruseau and James Auger are our guests today. Peter Bruseau is with the Virginia Academy of Fencing and spoke with us about his experiences with tournament fighting and what he hopes to get out of competition. You can find more information about the Virginia Academy of Fencing at http://www.vafinc.com/ James auger is from Elizabeth City North…

Today's episode is going back to meeting more members of the HEMA Community. The past couple of episodes have been more technical in nature, and we're going back towards hearing the community's story with this episode. Our first interview was recorded at Fechtschule New York with Jonathan "Jazzy" Bucci of Broken Plow Western Martial Arts in Pittsbu…

In this week's episode, we have an interview with Karl Bolle of Capital Kunst Des Fechtens (CKDF). Karl is an instructor at CKDF and is the Longpoint, DC HEMA Open, and Combat Con 2016 champion in advanced target cutting, and has earned multiple medals in cutting and single-handed weapon competitions. Karl shared his cutting experience and expertis…

We're Back! In today's episode we have two interviews from Matthew Stinson and one episode from Patrick McCaffrey. Jeff Wilson is a Free-Scholar and President of Steel Ring Academy, a member of the Historical Fencing Affiliates. Jeff has been involved and interested in reinacting for decades and recently found his way into the HEMA world. He has co…