I only found a 56 cm handle but it's too short as in our club we wanted to try anglo-saxon great axes from 1000s, like in the battle of Hastings.

Are they on sale at all?

Hey everybody!

So I've put quite a lot of hours into this article. I've pulled from my 12 years experience of doing HEMA and many years practicing, teaching, and studying Joachim Meyer's works. I'm always happy to get feedback for these things and to hear any thoughts or comments you might have. Please note the link attached is a short summary of the article. You can download the full 21 page article pdf from this link :) 4 Types of Combatants

I get Zornhau and Enthrusthau. But I'm confused as to Winker, Zwinger and Wecker. Also, whats up with Geferhau?

I come from a military saber backround, but also went to a local arma club for two years. I studied the manuals of Capitan G. Sinclair, Charles Rowroth, MacArthur and Alison Winn. So I'm used to the six cuts and six directions of the cuts, so these new methods of cutting are a bit weird. My experience in Arma did teach me a few of the basics in longsword, but since I left arma and I formed my own HEMA club, I've gotten a bit rusty.

So, I'm a shorter guy and often find myself unable to hit my oponent due to them moving retreating. How do I deal with this? Are there any drills to help my timing and distance? I already practice alot of footwork, but I always end up just out of range when I attack my oponent.

I've been searching around Waco for a place to learn the Two Handed Bastard, yet it seems nowhere exists that can teach me. Any tips to teach myself?

So, for context, I started HEMA five years ago on my own, looking at videos and manuals on the art of swordsmanship. I do it because I love history and martial arts. But recently I've seen that in almost all disiplines of HEMA, the practice blades are getting lighter and lighter. Even in saber I see stuff like the duelling saber, which acording to Matt Easton and Russ Mitchell, didn't exist in sharp form, it was only a methodology of training. Recently I also got into a bit of an argument when discussing the validty of a variation of the shieldhauw which uses the flexibility of the feder to reach the oponent. I mearly stated a bit of healthy skeptisim and was met with some pretty toxic behavior. Instead of trying to have a nice chat about swordsmanship, this pearson got angry and defensive and started throwing personal insults. So with all this in mind, and the fact that there are, to my knowledge, very few HEMA practitioners who do this for both the history and the martial art, what's going on in HEMA? Is the source material no longer considered? Are these practice blades getting too light? Are we going to loose the historical context of the art?

Please be respectful in your replys. I want to have an interesting conversation, not a shouting match.