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I'm looking for feedback on these: https://supfen.com/product/gloves/hfg0704.html

I bought 2 pairs back in 2020. They were too small (my bad, a Supfen M is not a Spes M) and were lacking on protection on the tip of the fingers. And the fabric broke quite soon.
I see now that the model has changed quite a bit. Now the shell covers the front of the fingertips, the inner gloves have also changed, and so I feel more confident. But I'd like to get some feedback before investing more.
(NB I have many other gloves, but I need to buy some loaners for the club, that's why I look for something cheap).

So friends I’m having a bit of imposter syndrome… I’ve been asked to help out with rapier instruction at my club and at the risk of outing myself I have never felt particularly confident in such a role. Does anyone know any good teaching aides or have any big advice for Italian basic? I want to largely focus footwork, distance, and timing, things I feel competent with from MOF. Where I struggle is blade engagements, I prefer single tempo actions from a refused position, I suck at binding and winding and don’t know how to teach it. I also feel I need a lot of work on my offline passes into thrusts (I usually offline into a cutting action or a counter cut then thrust…) anyway sorry for rambling thanks in advanced.

I recently started learning Swedish with the long-term goal of studying in Sweden and I thought this would be a good way to combine two of my interests.

I mostly do German longsword but this seems like a great excuse to branch into other systems and weapons. I am aware that the Caroleans of the early 1700s made heavy use of rapiers in combat but exactly how or what they trained is beyond me.

Ive committed to buying a sharpened battle ready sabre from either silkfencing or some other place. Im at a crossroad: either i buy the silkfencing hussar saber that will be bulletproof for years to come for a staggerint 1000$ or i can get one from other sources. Im thinking of getting the sabre from peserey but the problem is simple, i save 500$ at peserey witch is great, but the blade is way thinner, worse steel (still good just not silkfencing type) and less handguard.

Should i drop 1000$ on the silkfencing one that has everything i could ask for (guard, paluch, thick blade) or do i save 500$ and get the peserey one for a thinner blade that is not as strong but i can get two of them for the price of 1 silkfencing one.

What do you think is the right blade?

I want to train with it aswell (not sparring) so it will be a blade that might get used heavily.

Any feedback from owners of either is valued.

Due to a convoluted series of events, I'm soon going to be in possession of 2/3rds of a sword (grip + modern sparring blade) based around a 1912 pattern British cavalry sabre, and am going to be getting in touch with an armourer/smith to have a guard made for it. Given the nature of the grip (and my own personal preferences), it isn't really suited to a simple guard (bar/styrup, etc) and there are a few different options of guard style I'm consisdering

But to get a few more ideas for what I could go with - what are everyone's favourite complex guards they've seen? I'm partial to a mortuary guard and the 1899 British heavy cavalry one, but what other cool ones are out there?

Hello HEMA friends! I started doing HEMA around three months ago with the longsword mixing up German and Italian systems.

I do struggle with getting into the correct footwork or positions as described in Meyer’s book. When I try to elongate myself to get to the correct pflug or Ox I constantly get hit and have no chance to parry or even give afterblow. And when I try to get to the position where my feet are comfortable and I can move easily, it turns out I am unable to land a hit on the opponent.

Should I abandon the book like stances and go for the other approach? Or if you have any suggestions how to be more book accurate and also land hits, I would love to take those into my training.

Have a HEMAstic day and long live zwerchopter

Hi, I'm a noob whose understanding of swords is almost entirely based on web researches.

I'd like to ask you guys, how hard is it to mantain edge alignement through an actual fight against an opponent on a comparable level ? And what factors make it difficult ?

Also, I've never seen a term for that, but I suppose there should be some equivalent to edge alignement for thrusts. If that's the case, how is it called ?

I wanted to learn more about it after playing hellish quart but could find very few sources.

What are your experiences using it against other weapons or defending against it?