The HEMA-Cast

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 information about Boston Armizare on their facebook...

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.academyofhistoricalarts.co.uk/groups/cambridge-hema/  or on fac...

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 Delegation for the 2 nd European Games in Minsk 20...

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.com/events/2269664679711738/ respectively. Fechtsc...

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 by Lonin League in Seattle Washington. You can...

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/pgoodstuff/   Sven Lugar is a sword jock in the paci...

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 3 rd place in side sword cutting.   James Reed is the founder a...

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 touch with Daniel directly via Facebook at Daniel Leó...

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 found on facebook and at  http://hemape.com/ . And...

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 (with luck).   Like us on facebook at HEMA-Cast or on...

*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 the past and he is at least a part of why I started...

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 instructor for the Grünberg Freifechter out of Green...

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 Rouge, LA. They host the Baton Rouge Open, a part of S...

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. Tim Hall is with CKDF and a cofounder of the US His...

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 Western Swordsmanship Technique and Research (WSTR...

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 talked about some of the goals and the projects th...

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 and to chat with Peter and Josh about HEMS and the S...

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.englishmartialarts.com / You can get in touch with Cedric on Twi...

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 Trnava can be found on Facebook at https://www.fac...

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 HEMA school or club. You can find more information a...

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/ , and you can contact them via e-mail at blackhors...

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 year to talk about blacksmithing, and taking care of...

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 after listening to this round-table discussion you...

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-chief and Director of the Wiktenauer. He shared some...