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An inclusive martial arts group studying the medieval German fighting arts, primarily focusing on the longsword. Annual membership is £20. Fancy it?

Nottingham KDF trains every week at the Rushcliffe Arena in West Bridgeford. Rushcliffe Arena
Rugby Road,
West Bridgford,
Nottingham,
NG2 7HY

Classes are on Tuesday from 20.00-22.00 and cost a fiver a time. First session is free and the club has some spare gear to lend out until you can get your own stuff to train with. When you know you love it you'll want to invest in your new hobby (addiction?

), start with a fencing mask (around £50) and some gloves, then a training sword (about £150) and that will do for a while. For the free play you might want to invest in a padded fencing jacket (£100+) and then more and more weapons - but generally you can tailor your spend to your budget, modest or extravagant. Training is a mix of solo drills and partner drills, free fencing, light and very intentioned. It's easy to start with no skill, but experience in martial arts is an obvious bonus. Especially Chinese ones. This isn't re-enacting, although there are re-enactors who are members, this is a modern martial art. There is a lower age limit of 16 (at present), but strength is less of an issue than you might imagine, it is suitable for all ages over that minimum and we once boasted a 50/50 gender split, so ladies, this is as much for you as it is for the men. Come and give it a go - see what it is about in a freeby first session. Keep an eye on the page or drop us a message to see when we're taking new members (we get very full at times!)

02/06/2026

Our next beginners course started tonight. After a full session of putting up with discussions of footwork and rotational moments, the reward is to put on masks and hit people!

12/05/2026

Congratulations to Marcin on winning Bronze in the longsword tournament at Wolf Call at the weekend! Great work! Also, we all have our new T-shirts!

09/05/2026

Best of luck to our members competing in Wolf Call this weekend!

22/04/2026

Fun final session in our impromptu mini-course in I:33 sword and buckler! Thanks to all for attending.

18/03/2026

Who says geometry isn’t useful in the real world? Shieltlehau (the parting strike) beats the low strikes by a judicious use of Pythagoras!

03/02/2026

Working on sheitelhau and trying out our (briefly) fresh new masks on our beginners course.

27/01/2026

Yet again I forgot to take any photos of the first session of our new starters’ class, we were all having too much fun! Places are already starting to fill up for the next course so contact us if you want to go on the waiting list.

22/01/2026

Looking forward to seeing everyone at the new starters’ course on Tuesday!

We’ve had a couple of last minute drop outs so we have a couple of places if anyone wants to join us. Just drop a message via Messenger.

14/01/2026

Starting the year with a session on Durch Wechsel, the changing through. A bit technical so required extra press ups to keep us warm!

The next beginner class starts on the 27th Jan, there’s still a couple more places left so please contact us if you’re interested!

10/01/2026

Hello all, we’ll be starting a new beginner’s course on Tuesday the 27th January, 8-10pm at Rushcliffe Arena. Those people already on the waiting lists should already have invites by facebook messenger, but we do have a limited number of spaces left. If you are interested in attending, please contact us by messenger!

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