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Merry Christmas

December 24, 2018 11:52 pm

Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year when it comes everyone from the members of the Glasgow Historical Fencing Society.... View Article

December 16, 2018 8:10 pm

Well done to club member Dmitry for representing us at the Glasgow Hema Open Tournament in December at the Kelvin... View Article

October 31, 2018 4:59 pm

Happy birthday to Andrew who’s just turned 21. He’s been training with us for 3 years but his love of... View Article

We’re back!
In Updates
It’s been a long lockdown and we’re still not training indoors, but thanks to some friends with some farmland on the edge of Glasgow, we managed to get an outdoors training session this weekend. It was great to be back together and hopefully we’ll get a few more training sessions before the winter weather kicks in. Big thanks to Billy and Nicky for letting us visit and for Read More
Anti-Pugilism classes have started
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We’re revisiting our Scottish Regimental Basket-hilt classes, based on the 1790 manual ‘Anti-Pugilism’. Although we’ve trained this before, we’re enjoying this new interpretation, which is being researched and taught by Vytautas. It’s his first time as an instructor and he’s given a familiar system a lot of new depth and technique thanks to his close Read More
Glasgow HEMA Open Longsword – Dmitry takes 3rd!
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A massive well done to club member Dmitry who took 3rd place in today’s longsword competition at the open tournament run by our friends at Glasgow HEMA. As it was only his second competition and he was up against some very experienced opponents, we’re very chuffed. And a big thank you to all the GHFS club members who came along to support him.Read More