r/Hema

HAHAHAHAHAHA I've WANTED one of these musket holder pommel, especially the snake like one

I couldn't find my one to but so I got some mild steel too make one

Flamberge a VB side sword blade

Converting a Kvetun swept hilt

Will finish coming week, thought you guys may enjoy

Going for a 1430s German harness (pic 3) and looking for new legs, think I’m gonna go with some from Mardinus in Poland. Thoughts on segmented/slotted legs vs articulated legs with enclosed greaves? Aesthetically, functionally? Harness is for harnischfechten use (pollaxe and longsword)

Hey guys,

Here’s my new sparring video, no music, no effects, just minimal editing. I’m going solo against two very determined guys. Be kind in the comments and enjoy the video !

PS: Surviving this was impossible.

Pardon the long post I'm very AuDHD and have a lot on my mind. To start, the picture I included is what I attempted to do during a grapple in a saber duel, but we might have been more square but I definitely made a corner step with my right foot to block his knee and twisted, and he fell over and I only dropped my weight for that stance, I did not lift or pick up or thrust from my legs or hips or feel myself bearing any weight and the fall seemed relatively slow but it was apparently pretty bad.

I grew up practicing and competing in judo and wrestling, i was in judo from 5-18 and got my shodan and competed internationally a lot and decent wrestling record, have been retired from sports since I was 20 and had severe back issues but have recovered a bit and found I could handle HEMA, now I'm old at 31. I started a year ago and I've been on and off as health and other things go, but I signed up for my clubs tournament that's coming up this weekend and have been really practicing more and exercising in general, but overall I've noticed myself improving. I mostly do long sword but signed up for side sword and have learned some saber, which is what we used during the spar. I've been learning a lot and try to be friendly and in the past, I had hurt / injured other people in martial arts so I try to make sure I don't hit too hard and try to be as honest and sportsmanlike as I can and have actually been focusing a lot more on technique and even a lot of parrying. I know grappling it part of the sport but learning sword and learning grappling separately is hard when you transition, but I had been getting better at it mostly to grab their attack arm then attack with my sword. I have specifically been afraid of grappling and take downs for this reason and I mainly grappler if it's where the right goes but have rarely ever aimed for it.

This guy in particular is early-mid 20s and one of the guys that completes a lot in long sword, saber and Messer and this dude loves to grapple. He'll do overhead attacks then thrust the handles up to run into you to start grappling. He's been chill when I talk to him but can go a bit hard with the sparring, but he's even the one that likes to wrestle around with other guys he knows to play around and show off takedowns so I knew it was a thing he liked. So I was always kinda iffy on fighting with him but I wanted practice more and we had a few good rounds where he mostly won with saber, then had this exchange and pretty much ended up in something almost like a clinch or over/under with both swords at sides so it took me a second and then I thought, "oh yeah, I know takedowns from here!" And did that. They said both of his feet flew up to shoulder height but I'm legitimately confused because I don't think I Lifted or thrust up with my hips or legs or even raised me center of mass other than trying to pull him over my knee. Usually, it's like the picture I shared and one leg is trapped and tripped while the other is free and not much more intense than other leg or momentum trips. The only thing I'd say I noticed that might have factored in, he was standing pretty straight without lowering center of mass and might have had his legs close together so I can see it happening there too.

Idk, I'm still newer to the rules and I feel bad but also confused. Anyone have decent input?

Only got into HEMA in April and immediately fell in love with it. After months of using smelly club gear I finally have my own! Happy with how they turned out.

Didn’t have my SIGI King yet during the club tournament unfortunately when there was a photographer. Photographer removed people in the background in one of the images hence the weird background.

Doing some drills and running in my full kit