The HEMA-Cast

Peter Bruseau and James Auger are our guests today.

Peter Bruseau is with the Virginia Academy of Fencing and spoke with us about his experiences with tournament fighting and what he hopes to get out of competition. You can find more information about the Virginia Academy of Fencing at http://www.vafinc.com/

James auger is from Elizabeth City North Carolina and is an independent scholar of the Longsword. He studies a combination of styles pulling from what works the best for him in his experience. We spoke about what it's like to study on your own and the difficulties in finding spaces to practice the art.

Some resources mentioned at the end of the podcast include: http://wiktenauer.com/ || http://hroarr.com/ ||http://www.hemaalliance.com/ || http://www.armizare.org/

The HEMA-Cast is brought to you in part by Sword Carolina. Sword Carolina offers an online HEMA school, as well as The Academy for study group and club leaders. Sword Carolina can be found online at http://swordcarolina.com/

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Today's episode is going back to meeting more members of the HEMA Community. The past couple of episodes have been more technical in nature, and we're going back towards hearing the community's story with this episode.

Our first interview was recorded at Fechtschule New York with Jonathan "Jazzy" Bucci of Broken Plow Western Martial Arts in Pittsburgh, PA. Jazzy is a partner in Broken Plow, and was just elected to the HEMA alliance governing council as of August 2016. This meeting was recorded before his nomination. For more information about Broken Plow, visit http://pittsburghswordfighters.com/. For tournament Management Inquiries E-mail [email protected] and for HEMA Alliance related correspondence, email [email protected]

Our second interview was performed by Nina Cafaro at Longpoint this year. Nina interviewed Gretchen Settle of Maryland Kunst Des Fechtens. Longpoint 2016 was Gretchen's first tournament she participated in. You can find more information about MKDF at http://marylandkdf.com/

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In this week's episode, we have an interview with Karl Bolle of Capital Kunst Des Fechtens (CKDF). Karl is an instructor at CKDF and is the Longpoint, DC HEMA Open, and Combat Con 2016 champion in advanced target cutting, and has earned multiple medals in cutting and single-handed weapon competitions. Karl shared his cutting experience and expertise with us at Longpoint 2016.

For more information about Capital Kunst Des Fechtens, visit http://www.capitalkdf.org/

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We're Back! In today's episode we have two interviews from Matthew Stinson and one episode from Patrick McCaffrey.

Jeff Wilson is a Free-Scholar and President of Steel Ring Academy, a member of the Historical Fencing Affiliates. Jeff has been involved and interested in reinacting for decades and recently found his way into the HEMA world. He has combat military experience and has been instrumental in building and developing training materials for several employers to include Seminole County HR department. He loves working with his hands and creating things. Many of the weapons and various other creative implements that are a part of HEMA will ever be in good hands with him. You can find more information about Steel Ring Academy at http://www.steelringacademy.com/. And you can find more information about the HFA at http://the-hfa.com/

Craig Shukas is an instructor with Krieg School Tampa Bay. Krieg School has member schools in Denver and Tampa Bay. You can find more information about Krieg School at https://kriegschool.com/

Mike Edelson is the Director and Principle Instructor at the New York Historical Fencing Association. He is a lifelong student of martial arts with over 30 years of experience, 20 of them in various weapon arts. He has taught classes and given presentations at HEMA events worldwide, inlcuding Schwertcampf, Fechtschule America, Longpoint, Pacific Northwest HEMA Gathering, Boston Sword Gathering, Chivalric Weekend, Swordfest and others. The New York Historical Fencing Association can be found online at http://www.newyorklongsword.com/

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This episode is the first episode from Longpoint. Nina Cafaro is your host, and I was her first interview. So you get to know a little more about me and my own HEMA journey. Patrick McCaffrey studies Fiore with L'Arte Della Bellica in Kutztown, PA. He has been studying HEMA for just over a year, and regularly visits other schools and groups. At L'Arte Della Bellica he runs the Abrazare (grappling) and Daga (Dagger) classes on Sundays, providing a basis of understanding and conditioning for swordfighting.

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This is just a quick teaser episode until I get a full episode up this weekend. This will be up for a limited time just to whet your whistle while I work on the next episode.

For our last episode before Longpoint we are finishing up the series of interviews with Sword Carolina and including an interview with the founder of MEMAG.

Matthew Stinson interviewed Ashley Polasek of Sword Carolina. Ashley is a Women's Longsword competitor and Gold medal winning student of Sword Carolina. She also has a podcast of her own called the Baker Street Babes, an all-female group of Sherlock Holmes fans dedicated to approaching the fandom from a female point of view, as well as engaging in fun, lively conversations about the canon, film and television adaptations of Arthur Conan Doyle's work, and associated topics. Her podcast is available on iTunes.

Sword Carolina can be found online at http://swordcarolina.com/

Cory Winslow is the founder of the Medieval European Martial Arts Guild, or M.E.M.A.G. He is also a HEMA Alliance Certified Instructor and the Vice Director of the HEMAA Curriculum Council. He has been seriously researching and training in Historical European Martial Arts since 2003. In 2006 he founded the first MEMAG training school in Salisbury Maryland with his assistant instructor Joshua Reptsik and continued to teach regular classes at the Peninsula Fight School of MEMAG until early 2014, when he and his wife Betsy established the Blue Ridge Sword School in Luray, VA where they currently instruct regular classes.

MEMAG can be found online at http://www.memag.net/

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This week's episode is again with guest host Matthew Stinson. We're continuing the series of interviews from Sword Carolina. This time with Josh Lucas. Josh is Aaron's right hand man and also started up Sword Carolina with him.

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This week's episode is a special guest Host episode with Matthew Stinson of Steelwind Fencing Academy from Jacksonville, FL. Matthew recently interviewed Aaron Shober of Sword Carolina. He was kind enough to share the interview with me to get it out to the rest of the HEMA Community.

Aaron stumbled onto HEMA in 2010 and quickly became passionate about it. He practiced largely on his own for the next year, through books, DVDs, online resources, and events, before starting his own group in a local park. In September 2012, Aaron leased a Main Street space and opened up a dedicated HEMA school, one of only a few in the country. He is blessed to be a professional HEMA instructor, teaching and training as his full-time career.

Aaron has taught classes at events such as IGX, SoCal, and his own Study in Steel. He has won medals in Longsword, Dussack, and Dagger and has helped coach several students to win or place in tournaments. Sword Carolina's YouTube channel is recognized as one of the best free resources to start to learn HEMA, and Sword Carolina Online is the first online school of HEMA available. Through Sword Carolina and Sword Carolina Online, Aaron now has students around the world.

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In this episode I interviewed Jake Norwood of CKDF about Longpoint. America's premier HEMA gathering. We spoke about what goes on at Longpoint, and why people should attend Longpoint.

Jake Norwood is an internationally known competitor and instructor in Historical European Martial Arts (HEMA), with over 30 medals from national and international full-contact competitions in longsword, military saber, dussack, messer, and target cutting since 2010. A multi-tour combat veteran of the 101st Airborne, Jake combines the training regimen and psychological toughness of the modern warrior to the reconstruction and physical application of Europe's traditional fighting arts.

As an instructor, Jake has presented his aggressive, dynamic approach to Kunst des Fechtens, or the Art of Fighting, at workshops and conferences across Germany, Sweden, the Netherlands, Canada, Mexico, and the United States. He is the head instructor at Capital Kunst des Fechtens and founder of the xKDF Network. His students are among the top competitors in the U.S. HEMA tournament scene. Jake is a former board member and the former president of the HEMA Alliance, an educational not-for-profit organization established to provide independent HEMA clubs and schools worldwide with the resources of an international cooperative.

Capital Kunst des Fechtens can be found at http://www.capitalkdf.org/

More information about Longpoint, including schedule, and registration can be found at http://www.fightlongpoint.com/

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