The HEMA-Cast

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 pacific northwest and regular volunteer for SwordSquatch. He has 60 years of experience between the Ravens, Military service, the SCA, and HEMA. When he gets back to training, he will be will Lonin League. 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 find more information about Swordsquatch at swordsquatch.org including tickets for swordsquatch 2019.

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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 3rd place in side sword cutting.

James Reed is the founder and Lead Instructor of Men at Arms Martial Arts in Harrisburg Pennsylvania. You can find more information about Men at Arms on Facebook, or on their website PASwordCombat.com. Men at Arms is hosting their second annual tournament event "Clash of Claymores" in April. There they are having four tournaments and over a dozen workshops as part of the Longpoint Historical Fencing League. You can get tickets online at https://www.paswordcombat.com/event-info/clash-of-claymores-2019

Give a Girl a Sword is an initiative started by Esfinges to encourage events intended to make it easier and more welcoming for women to join and get involved in HEMA. You can find more information about Esfinges on facebook, or their website, esfinges.net. The Esfinges (The Sphinxes) was born out of a need to assist women wanting to begin study of these arts so they can start practicing Historical European Martial Arts (HEMA) and to bring female practitioners HEMA together.

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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 León, or by phone + 593 099 787 0877. You can find his club on Facebook (https://www.facebook.com/scuolagladiatoriwarriorschool/), Instagram (https://www.instagram.com/artesmarciales_tangsoo_hema_ec/), Youtube, or online at https://scuolagladiatori.com/. And more information about Schola St George can be found at https://www.scholasaintgeorge.org/

Rebecca Glass is a longtime student of HEMA and will be joining L'Arte Della Bellica as we start a new club in New York City in the coming months. She is teaching a class at Black Wolf Historical Fencing called "From Worrier to Warrior" February 23rd. As part of the class, they will look at goal setting and coping strategies that can help you get through competition -- and help you in your daily life outside of HEMA. More information can be found at https://www.facebook.com/events/232956564315306/

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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 you can find Schola St George Savannah at http://ssgsavannah.com/

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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).

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*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 the podcast in the first place. So while this is not a HEMA-Cast episode, I wanted to share it and get some feedback from my listeners, and give an opportunity for Matt to share this pilot episode with his listeners. Please give us some feed back and let us know what you'd like to hear from a Community Bookstore Podcast. You can contact me at [email protected] or Matt at [email protected] You can find us both on Facebook. We want to hear some feedback and I hope that we can get some ideas and put together another great podcast for you to listen to.

The intro, Midtro, and Outro are off of the Kutztown Music Sampler by Keith Brintzenhoff. For more information visit www. Toadcreekmusic.com or e-mail [email protected]

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 Mountain Vermont. More information about the Grünberg Freifechter can be found on their facebook page. https://www.facebook.com/grunbergfreifechter/ They are part of the Meyer Freifechter Guild, more information about them can be found here: https://sites.google.com/site/mffgusa//study-groups/region-i/gruenberg-freifechte

Will Del Solar is an instructor for Boston Armizare, out of Boston Massachusetts. Will has a HEMA blog found here: https://nerd-plus-jock-equals-hema.tumblr.com/ And Boston Armizare has a youtube channel and a facebook page for more information about them found here: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCqI86Igqd3xDahzLwL9rn1w/ and Here: https://www.facebook.com/BostonArmizare/

The HEMA-Cast is brought to you by Old Line Historical Swordsmanship. Old Line Historical Swordsmanship is a martial arts club dedicated to studying the arts of medieval Germany. They study all manner of European swords, Longsword, Sword and Buckler, Saber, Rapier, Dagger, Wrestling, and others.

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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 SHFL, the Southern Historical Fencing League. You can find more information about Ordo Procinctus at https://www.facebook.com/groups/OrdoProcinctusHEMA/ And more information about the Baton Rouge Open 2018 at https://www.facebook.com/events/2025780501080851/

Connor Richardson is a member of MEMAG Crossing fight school, and has been practicing HEMA for almost a year and a half now. You can find more information about MEMAG at http://memag.net/

Ashanti Ziths is a member of the New York Historical Fencing Association (NYHFA), and is the creator of the Agoge bag from Prometheus Packs. The Agoge bag is specifically designed for HEMA practicioners. You can find more information about NYHFA at http://www.newyorklongsword.com/. And you can find the Agoge bag at https://www.prometheuspacks.com/

The HEMA-Cast is brought to you by Old Line Historical Swordsmanship. Old Line Historical Swordsmanship is a martial arts club dedicated to studying the arts of medieval Germany. They study all manner of European swords, Longsword, Sword and Buckler, Saber, Rapier, Dagger, Wrestling, and others.

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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 Historical Ringen Association. Tim is also a certified personal fitness trainer. Tim is a great Ringen teacher, and competitor. You can find information about CKDF at https://www.capitalkdf.org/. And you can find more information about the US HRA at https://usringen.org/ or on their Facebook Page

Douglas Perritt is with the Virginia Academy of Fencing, and organizer of the Midatlantic Ringen Symposium (MARS) and the Atlantic Ringen Exposition and Symposium (ARES). You can find more information about VAF at http://www.vafinc.com/ You can find last years events on Facebook MARS 2017 and ARES 2017, and I'm sure this years events will be announced soon.

To add some more community involvement, I'd like to have our listeners record themselves reading the opening and/or closing script to be included in the episode. If you'd like send me a recording of either the opening or closing script, e-mail me at [email protected] with an audio file.

The script for the opening and closing of the episode are found below:

Opening: Hello, You're listening to the HEMA-Cast. A HEMA Focused Podcast. Where we interview members of the HEMA community, have roundtable discussions about topics important to HEMA, and discuss upcoming events with event organizers. I am [your name] and here is your host Patrick McCaffrey.

Closing: You can find The HEMA-Cast on iTunes, Stitcher, and Google Play Music at the HEMA-Cast. If you like what we do, and want to make it easier for people to find us, please rate us, write a review, and share it with your friends. If there's something we could be doing better, or you want to recommend a topic or a person to talk with, e-mail us at [email protected] or message us on Facebook or Twitter. In the meantime, this is [your name] and I hope you are granted Prudence, Celerity, Audacity, and Fortitude in all that you do. Thanks for listening.

The HEMA-Cast is brought to you by Old Line Historical Swordsmanship. Old Line Historical Swordsmanship is a martial arts club dedicated to studying the arts of medieval Germany. They study all manner of European swords, Longsword, Sword and Buckler, Saber, Rapier, Dagger, Wrestling, and others.

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Excuses, excuses, excuses. The podcast is not abandoned, I've just been busy. More episodes are coming, don't worry!