Practiced with knives: Italian knife fighting in New York
Monday, October 3, 1904 Watertown Daily Times Fencing bouts indulged in by Italians with blunt weapons Man Suspected of Baddato’s (sic) Continue reading
I don't do long sword
A blog for all the HEMA misfits
The Broad Swordsman’s Pocket Companion
A small colored booklet on broadsword fencing published in 1830 by Capt. Frederick Wroughton.
Keyboard warriors: Martial arts in the age of participatory culture
What makes HEMA truly unique in the martial arts world is how it is community driven.
Bataireacht in an Australian dinner
A newspaper article about an Irish man defending himself with a shillelagh in 1930s Australia.
How to disturb a man’s philosophy: Instruction in singlestick
An 1845 method of singlestick based on Walker.
What is a martial art… historically that is
Where (and when) the term originates and how it came to hold the meaning it has today.
Action Movies: Early films of European Martial Arts
A selection of some of the earliest videos of Western Martial Arts.
Not your grandpa’s cane
A selection of unusual weaponized canes from a recent auction.
