Burning Sun Historical Swordsmanship

04/25/2026

Today we celebrated Josephine Dabbs with her Birthday Bear Pit! ⚔️🧸⚔️

03/16/2026

This weekend we got to celebrate Torin's Birthday Bearpit ⚔️🐻⚔️! Fought to 19 wins with plenty of shenanigans.

https://youtu.be/f1XHjDiI9_E?si=iLiM5OMomYsC-OjR

01/18/2026

It's great having some fresh faces in the club!

12/15/2025

Today we celebrated 14 trips around our Burning Sun for Thamson with a birthday bear pit and potluck! He wanted to fight with ALL the weapons for his bear pit, so we happily obliged.

09/21/2025

Wow, surprised and very happy our classes are growing! Today we studied Fabris rapier and everyone who could fight (anyone who wasn't Justinder) was in the pits and clashing steel after lessons. I am so proud of our fighters for showing up, doing the work and then testing out what they learned with sparring.

06/29/2025

So great to have new friends visiting and a great turnout from our seasoned fighters. Biggest Burning Sun practice in years!

09/09/2024

These kids are killing it with messer. Their sparring is looking amazing and honestly blowing me away. Proud HEMA coach moment.

08/24/2024

We got to celebrate James coming up for a visit with his birthday bearpit! ⚔️🐻⚔️

08/19/2024

Burning Sun 🔥☀️ went to Donnybrook and took home 2 medals (+1 for Tony!), 3rd place in Iron Warrior, 2nd place in Iron Woman, the hand sniper award, and the trophy for best overall club performance! ⚔️🏆⚔️

07/28/2024

I'm going to be fighting in 2 finals at CombatCon! For bronze in Rapier Dagger and for gold in Sword and Buckler.

The livestream:

Open CuttingKult of Athena Advanced CuttingArmored CombatOpen Messer Open SaberOpen RapierTier 3 LongswordTier 2 LongswordWomen's LongswordTier 1 LongswordTo...

07/20/2024

Check out this badass pulling off a technique straight from the manual on her stunned coach

From Joachim Meyer's 1570 'Art of Combat'. Out of the Dussack section with get the Rosenhau, or the "Rose Cut".From the manual2.11r2 "If you find an opponent...