Zoom Link: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/83218598206 We will continue our readings and share our thoughts every Monday at 8:00PM Eastern. For this next session, we're starting with page 39 and will hopefully make our way through to page 57.  If you have already completed this reading, start working your way through the Zorn section. We'll be working off of the Wiktenauer compilation, available here: https://hroarr.com/wp-content/uploads/downloads/2016/08/wiktenauer-Liechtenauer-long-and-short-sword-gloss-compilation-2016-1.pdf  

Zoom Link: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/83441110630 Join us for a quick reopening Q&A followed by a lovely craft and chat session where we catch up and socialize via cameras.

  It is so important to listen to our bodies and learn their language.  This self awareness is imperative to understanding when it is okay to push and when we need to rest and rehabilitate. In this lecture with Kimberleigh Roseblade we will discuss topics that include: Working with mental and physical illness, injuries, and restrictions.  How to listen to your body’s needs and adapt your training accordingly.  What coaches and teachers can do to create a better environment allowing their disabled and neuro-divergent students to thrive. Zoom Link: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/88317462192

Zoom Link: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/83218598206 Thank you all so much for participating in our first zettel discussion! We will continue our readings and share our thoughts every Monday at 8:00PM Eastern. For this next session, we're starting with a recap and then picking up around page 33 - 35 and will continue to page 53 as it is numbered in the PDF linked below. We'll be working off of the Wiktenauer compilation, available here: https://hroarr.com/wp-content/uploads/downloads/2016/08/wiktenauer-Liechtenauer-long-and-short-sword-gloss-compilation-2016-1.pdf  

CKDF's John Durish will be discussing the nuances of Kydex crafting and provide insight on how to get started. Zoom Link: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/83984673452

Join us for a discussion of the zettel and selected glosses - the main longsword sources we study. The hope is to make this more like a book club than a set of lectures, so we'll read a portion ahead of time to talk about. We'll be working off of the Wiktenauer compilation, available here: https://hroarr.com/wp-content/uploads/downloads/2016/08/wiktenauer-Liechtenauer-long-and-short-sword-gloss-compilation-2016-1.pdf For this session, we're starting right from the beginning through to page 53 (as numbered in the pdf). Zoom Link: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/83218598206

  When training with others, we demonstrate trust that our partners will keep us safe and help us to develop to our greatest potential as martial artists. Our partners demonstrate the same trust in us. Therefore, it is part of our responsibility as martial artists to learn the skills needed to better help those around us. When we become better training partners, we benefit not only our peers, but also the art itself and our own practice. In this overview, we will explore both introspective and practical strategies that can be applied to improve as a training partner in HEMA. These strategies will form the basis of a toolkit to enable both you and your drill partners to get the most possible benefit from training together. We will discuss approaches to help you effectively mentor fellow practitioners of all experience levels; get more out of training when skill differentials are present; mitigate frustration and burnout; and improve communication between you and your partner. Zoom Link: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/81294830027

In the HEMA community, a common topic of discussion is the idea of realism in fights. Such discussions often involve seemingly plausible but flawed assumptions about what “real sword fights” are like: that real sword fights have no rules and that the more violent and brutal a fighter is, the more realistically they are behaving. This lecture will address these misconceptions about realism in violence by providing a more nuanced way of understanding violence that acknowledges its variety, as well as examining historical accounts of real sword fights from 16th century Germany to illustrate the legal and social norms that regulated the behavior of fighters in violent encounters. Zoom Link:  https://us02web.zoom.us/j/81908579382

  We'll be running through a variety of footwork and technique drills for the longsword, with tips for solo practice. Zoom Link: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/89380633920

  We will look at Meyer's cutting diagram and explore additional solo drills. Zoom Link: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/85809355717

We'll begin with a short presentation on historical and modern fighting in armor, techniques, how to get started, and finish with a Q&A. Zoom Link: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/83785126749

Join us for an hour of arms, chest, shoulders, back, and core. We will end with a cool down stretching session. Come do what you can! Zoom Link: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/85022895441