Historical European Martial Arts (HEMA) like their eastern martial arts cousins have codified martial arts practice and systems. Some of these systems have been written down and until recently (say the last 20 or 30 years) have been gathering dust in Libraries and Museums around the world. We are lucky that we come at HEMA […]
Each year the KDF run a two day workshop at the Royal Armouries in Leeds called JRL (Jung Ritter Lere – Learn Young Knight). This year, I managed to get along to the Sunday and took apart in a few workshops, had some private lessons, and got to handle some pretty old weaponry. A great […]
Yesterday was our first introductory workshop to the German longsword of master Johannes Liechtenauer. Even though we only had 4 hours, we covered a lot of the basics and we will now take that forward to in regular weekly practice. Thanks for everyone that attended yesterdays workshop as without you this couldn’t of happened and I […]
Introductory German Longsword session hosted by Thanet Fecht Schule and instructed by Peter Smallridge of the KDF Tonbridge Group. This will be the initial Thanet group practice to get us started. We are all beginners and looking to start a study group under the KDF banner. Cost for the initial 4 hour workshop will be […]