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31/12/2016

Some love for the Bruch!

Facebook Twitter Google+ reddit The HEMA Scholar Awards committee are pleased to present this year’s winners. These individuals represent the finest scholarship published in 2015. We received many nominations recognizing efforts in a wide variety of fields, and our deliberations required weeks of lo...

10/06/2016

The proofs for the hardcover edition of the Di Mazo translation by Matteo Butera, Francesco Lanza, Jherek Swanger and myself have now also been received and approved. Get your hardcover book here:
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Of course, the paperback is also still available, here:
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20/03/2016

After seeing the mythbusters attack / defence bias testing I had to try for myself. These are 73 exchanges in 7 fights, most participants have a couple of ye...

09/03/2016

As you know, The School of the Sword is playing host to this year’s International Rapier Seminar where we will gather some of the world’s best instructors for a weekend of learning, free play and competition.

04/02/2016

Thanks to Per Magnus Haaland, I can finally share my latest work with you all, an English translation of Don Emanuel Friedrich De Bada's Kort Anledning, published in Lund in the 1730s. This was not an easy translation - I started it soon after moving to Norway, as a first step into learning the nordic languages, and it was not the smartest step to take, as De Bada, also an immigrant, by his own words (my translation) "knew rather little of the Swedish language".
http://www.bruchius.com/docs/DeBadaKortAnledningbyRvN.pdf

09/01/2016

I prepared a transcription and translation of Pieter Bailly's "Cort Bewijs van t'Rapier alleen" a few years ago, but never published them, for several reasons. Therefore, it gladdens me that I can now publish this pdf, containing not only my transcription and translation, but also an interpretation, and - with the kind permission of the Koninklijke Bibliotheek Nederland, in Den Haag - a set of scans that Matt Galas first acquired from them.
With this, I do believe that I have provided translations of all Dutch HEMA sources from before 1700!
Do enjoy :)
www.bruchius.com/docs/BaillysShortProofbyRvN.pdf
(The scans make this a 300 MB pdf, by the way.)

22/07/2015

Finally published!
Note the special offer when you buy both Of the Single Rapier and Lessons on the Thrust!
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29/05/2015

Jan Schäfer unearthed and transcribed this little set of fencing lessons from a 17th century manuscript in the Gotha library a few weeks ago. I am happy to now present our English translation of this work:http://www.bruchius.com/docs/GothaB2117%20by%20JS%20and%20RvN.pdf