Day 333 - Amy

Amy - ‘It was 2005 when I first went along to KDF Nottingham and fell in love with the sword. Ever since then I’ve been practicing HEMA (Historical European Martial Arts). When people ask me what it’s all about I end up describing what it’s not. It’s not: re-enactment, LARP or sport fencing. It is: awesome. HEMA is all about bringing long dead fighting systems back to life. We translate and interpret surviving combat manuals, with the earliest dating back to 1300, and from that we build a modern martial art. But there is no single art. HEMA covers a wide variety of time periods and weapons, through medieval and renaissance, using longsword, dagger, messer, pollaxe, rapier... I could go on. I...View all