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I recently started doing HEMA (highland broadsword via the Cateran Society) and I just recently learned about the whole not breaking your wrist while swinging, which explains why my cuts felt weak and painful.

I'm wondering if any of you know of some good resources, books or online, about body and sword arm mechanics? things like keeping your wrist straight, how to get power from the kinetic chain of your body, etc. It seems like the kind of concepts that would be pretty universally applicable, but anything focused on one-handed cut and thrust swords would be extra helpful.

I highly recommend you go through my previous post to understand the context and my circumstances, but TL;DR:

"I’m an Egyptian engineer with a burning passion for European history and Historical European Martial Arts (HEMA), especially sword fighting with long swords. Unfortunately, there are no HEMA clubs or practitioners here in Egypt, and owning swords is illegal."

You have no idea the overwhelming support I received when I had posted this post. I wanted to take a moment to express my heartfelt gratitude to this amazing community. The support, encouragement, and advice I received after sharing my predicament have been nothing short of overwhelming and deeply inspiring.

I’ve decided to take a big step forward, and, based on many of your advices and encouragements, start my own HEMA club here in Egypt! I’ll be starting from scratch, but I believe that every great journey begins with a single step (Rome wasn't built in a day, after all 😄). Many of you suggested looking into boffers as a beginner-friendly alternative, and after doing some research, I managed to acquire two. With these (along with other wooden knives and daggers), I’ll officially start my HEMA journey with a single training partner who shares my passion. It’s a humble beginning, but it’s a start, and I’m excited about the possibilities.

If any of you have advice, guidance, or resources for someone in my position—whether it’s training drills, sparring tips, or ways to grow interest in HEMA locally—I’d be incredibly grateful. I plan to focus on long swords initially and slowly expand from there. I also want to ensure that whatever I teach or practice stays as authentic as possible to historical techniques. Although I start from boffers, I have a somewhat extensive plans to acquire wooden swords, protective gear, and so on. The plans are not perfect and have many unclear steps, but I'll improvise, research, and learn along the way.

It's a big surprising step (born out of sheer passion and admiration for the medieval arts and history) for a magnanimous project that has no equal in my country, and tbh I don't have high hopes that it will succeed, but I'll travel down this path nonetheless. I plan to proceed with this project very slowly without rushing anything even if it takes months to learn a simple concept or develop a tiny aspect, as slow and steady wins the race. Also, I have lots of responsibilities being a working adult, with little time to spare for this project, but I'll make sure every moment spent in it counts and worth it.

Once again, thank you all for being such a wonderful and supportive community. I’ll keep you all updated on my progress, and I hope one day I’ll be able to give back by inspiring others, just as you’ve inspired me.

Wishing you all peace, prosperity, and happy training!

Probably a dumb question, yes.

Me and my friend joined a local hema club (longsword). We have a good time but we want to have something to practice longsword at home too. We are very short on budget. Is there anything we can use to practice our stance, basic attacks and other basics? Something with close length and weight, what we can use solo + safe to hit hands (we have gloves) with it?

Thanks in advance.

A friend and I want to start practicing and sparring, but he doesn't want to use protective gear. He just says "we'll just go slow and pull our strikes". No way in hell will that work. We're using hard plastic weapons, but they'll absolutely break some finger bones when struck, even if the strike is pulled. Money is tight for us, sure, but being safe comes first above all.

I would like to support our professional teachers by adding all of the online courses to the wiki.

I've got Swordschool and St. Louis School of Arms, but I know you'all have mentioned others in the past.

I can't find a partner, and there no club anywhere i can get to regularly. I want to learn longsword, shortsword or rapier. What do i read? What gear do i get (and can I just DIY a foam sword)? I'm rly confused to all of that.

Hey, I've been looking around looking for videos detailing Fiore's techniques. But, the most I can find tend to be longsword videos. I occasionally come across other techniques involving daggers, polearms, and some unarmed fighting. But, I can't find any channels that cover the entirety of Fiore's teachings, like I see for Mair, Meyer, and the likes.

I'm looking for a bit of advice. I mostly learn from sparring and watching content on youtube. I find the way manuals are written to be difficult to break down. Does anyone know if the book is written in plane language or simply a direct translation?

I was watching the Spanish Princess and in the second season she sallies forth on horseback with a longsword and full body armour.

I have seen some women train muay thai whilst pregnant on IG and I was wondering how realistic/unrealistic is this?

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I wanted to ask for people's opinion on using the 3 section staff in HEMA, it's an interesting weapon that could potentially have a lot of use if learned properly. I want to use a weapon with a relatively steep learning curve that would feel rewarding after figuring it out, and the 3 section seems to be good for that, though I'm not sure it would fit in HEMA.

Finally got some proper pants and some new leg protection!

In Meyer's longsword, parrying can be summarized with three rules.

1. Against anything other than an oberhauw, use an oberhauw.
2. Against an oberhauw, use any other basic cut.
3. If you want to use a single-time counter, use the short edge.

In the rapier section, Meyer spends half a chapter just on the various kinds of parries. And if we look at the Lund manuscript's rapier section, we find each guard has a list of parries to use from it.

Why is there such a big difference?

Hello everyone, I'm looking for HEMA related christmas gifts for my boyfriend. He's still a beginner but already has all the basic equipment (longsword user). Unfortunately he's been unable to attend classes for quite some time due to a very busy schedule, so I figured that there might be some good books out there that can help him train by himself at home. I'm also down to buy books that just revolve around history as he's very interested in that as well. And if you have any additional recommendations for cool/funny merch or QOL equipment I'd be very grateful! :)

Is there a limit for rapier blade length in tournaments? Is there a standard length? My club essentially has a 44" standard because we all got rapiers from HF. Heard that's already considered too long by some. Might order from Castille and wondering if I should still get 44" or go for 40"?

I don't know what this is, but I need to learn it.

I've heard that Lulu is doing major sale this weekend with the code HOLIDAY30. They've got a lot of HEMA books so it's worth checking it out.