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The Art of Balefire Blades

May 9, 2021 5:58 pm

Over lockdown, we took delivery of a beautiful new coffee-table-style sword book from Balefire Blades. If you are familiar with... View Article

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Glasgow HEMA Longsword and Basket Hilt tournament
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Last weekend, Vytas represented us at the Glasgow HEMA open tournament in both longsword and sabre/basket-hilt categories, where he narrowly missed out on a medal, placing 4th below much more experienced competitors. Congratulations to the winners and a big shout out to Chris and the Glasgow Sword Breakers, and Ben and Saorsa: Scottish Swordsmanship for their friendship and support.Read More
Back again!
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Now that we’re in Level 2 we can meet outdoors for contact training. So we’re back at the farm and having a lot of fun reminding ourselves of all the stuff we love about training historical fencing. We’ve started with longswords – German longsword is the backbone of our club and a great place to re-start after a break. A couple of the guys have got new messers so there Read More
The Art of Balefire Blades
In Updates
Over lockdown, we took delivery of a beautiful new coffee-table-style sword book from Balefire Blades. If you are familiar with their online presence, you will know that their custom swords come with beautiful stories designed to evoke the history and background of their design. It might seem like a non-functional addition to your sword order, but everybody who loves swords knows there’s more to Read More

Resources

Wiktenauer is an ongoing collaboration among researchers and practitioners from across the Western martial arts community, seeking to collect all of the primary and secondary source literature that makes up the text of HEMA research and to organise and present it in a scholarly but accessible format.
wiktenauer.com

HROARR is an independent, neutral meeting ground and resource site dedicated to the Historical European Martial Arts community.
hroarr.com

Suppliers

The Knight Shop
A UK based supplier of historical swords and armour.
theknightshop.com

The following sword makers have been used by members of Glasgow Historical Fencing Society:
balefireblades.com
regenyei.com
kvetun facebook page

"Liechtenauer's swordsmanship is a true art that the weaker wins more easily by use of his art than the stronger by using his strength."
Translated by David Lindholm