hello I don't know if this belongs here so apologies if it doesn't but I recently received the purple heart armory long dagger and I'm wondering how you take off the Nagle on the dagger as I want to move it to the other side so my thumb can lay more flat on the side without the knot

I also really like the protector in the 3rd slide because it looks like it can provide great mobility without compromising my mobility too much.

I’m thinking of getting the Galante cup hilt rapier from Malleus Martialis, but I’m having trouble deciding on getting either a triangular or diamond shaped cross section. I’ll be honest and say that I don’t really know what either brings to the table or what the pros and cons are of using one over the other

I want to use this rapier for sparring at my HEMA club, what would you guys say works best/what is recommended?

https://malleusmartialis.com/product/galante-cup-hilt-rapier/

Hi everyone,

I joined HEMA a few months ago after a few years of Olympic fencing and am in the process of buying my first pair of gloves. In my club we mainly fence longsword/Langes Schwert and Langes Messer, and I would like to get deeper into the world of Langes Messer in the future.

I was pretty sure I was going to buy a pair of Sparring Gloves Mittens (long cuff version), but have recently discovered that Sparring Gloves have just released a new cuff design as well as a new range of gloves (“Milaneski”; https://sparringglove.com/portfolio/milaneski-long-cuffs/?v=288404204e3d). The Milaneski gloves appear to be hard plastic and look pretty good in the photos.

Now I'm a bit unsure which is the best choice for me. Being a musician, I really need to take care of my fingers and would like to get a good mix for safety and agility (like any fencer, right?) :D

Has anyone tried the new Sparring Gloves range and can share their impressions? I haven't found any reviews on the internet.

Best regards and good sportsmanship!

Jay

Edit: I can see my original question has been misinterpreted, that's my fault, it wasn't clear. 'What I say and what I mean are two different things' as the BFG would say.

When in the zufecten (pre fencing), do you think that you should always seize the Vor, and if so do you think that simply making a strike is 'good enough'? Or do you have tactics.

Or do you like to fight from the Nach, i.e. allow them to make th first strike so you can then take the Vor. Again, any tactics you use to make this more successful?

In my mind:

Successfully taking the Vor is about attacking your opponent where they are uncovered AND when they are not prepared AND in such a way they are unlikely to counter attack you successfully. Your Vorschlag is worthless otherwise.

Successfully working in the Nach is about encouraging or forcing your opponent to attack you where you are uncovered but easily defendable AND while you are prepared. Ideally also while they are in a panic AND at a time of your choosing.

Or am I wrong?

Any tips you want to share?

(I'm not interested in definitions of vor and Nach. I know what they mean. I'm interested in how you set up your engagement in the zufecten. Of course, no plan survives contact with the enemy etc.

Hello. I know this site has already been mentioned before, but I have a specific issue. Has anyone here bought from Wargear Shop? They seem to be based in Russia from my understanding and for more than a month I have been trying to buy a Halberd synthetic trainer and they have told me multiple times that it has been delivered/dropped off at my local post office to pick up, only for them to be entirely wrong. I will ask them about this, they will take a 2-3 day break, and then I ask again to recieve the same response. Is this even a real store or what. What do you guys think, have you successfully bought from them? Are they reputable or sketchy? Thank you.

Hey! I’m an Olympic fencer (Sabre) and I’m thinking of switching to HEMA or just doing HEMA on the side with Olympic fencing. Do you guys have any recommendation?

EDIT: I also do foil on the side

Looking at putting in a gear order with SupFen for myself and my wife. Looking at the custom sizing guide... there are question. The "Total Length" (A) measurement - what does this actually want measured.

Is this measuring my length from shoulder to hip? Or are they requesting that I provide the total length that I would like the jacket to be? I feel that this may be a stupid question, but also it's a bit ambiguous, and I only get one try.

https://preview.redd.it/sflqs3ysz9ce1.jpg?width=2000&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=8509417ffa002d656d2f6414cdb07854c5ad4121

I own the Nobilis rapier by them, and so far I am satisfied with it. They recently released a steel cup hilt rapier and it caught my eye. Does anyone have any experience with it?

https://preview.redd.it/de205yztv6ce1.png?width=959&format=png&auto=webp&s=43deb167e65d76c7cf4a289ee17dfec2b117c9d3

This would be for the club, i have my own Feder and a few other people do, but this creates a somewhat dumb situation where the veterans who own a feder must scale down to plastic.

I have made my Club some wooden training daggers. They are made of beech and do what they are supposed to do What do you tink about them ?

Sorry if this is a dumb question. Can you use thrust attacks with all swords in hema or only certain ones?

I would like to build my self a leather Dussack

Has anyone experience with that or advise ? Also is there a good template? What would you recomend as a core?

Thanks in advance :)

Hi dear HEMA-Practitioners,

I'm currently about to change my gear from a mixed-setup jacket, which has been the standard for our club for a long time (standard fencing jacket with a padded coaching vest and separate throat protection), towards a more standard HEMA one.
The old combination of gear has the advantage of being very flexible around the arms and shoulders and low weight but hits to the upper arms can be felt very intensely and since this setup does not have a built-in blade catcher I have to rely on the blade-catching element of my throat protector, which makes me feel like I need more protection with increasing experience in feder fights.

At this point I'm on the fence whether I should either go for the "Uhlmann/In-Motu St. George" (St. George Fencing Jacket 800N Men for Historical Fencing/ HEMA - IN MOTU Shop) or the "SPES/Histfenc Hussar" (Hussar HEMA Jacket NG 800N).

I read that the Hussar gets very (!) warm during more intense sessions and reduces one's mobility around the shoulders but that it delivers a significantly better protection than many other jackets.
On the other hand, the St. George seems lighter and less bulky but has very long delivery times and seems to be used less in the HEMA scene.

I also want to keep using my (rather bulky, but tested and true) throat protection with the new setup, but I don't know how well this would fit under the standard neck width of the Hussar.

Any advice?

Edit:
Since it was late when I wrote the question I totally forgot to mention that I'm looking for 800N gear because of rules within our club and the relevant tournaments we tend to participate in.

Hey everyone. I found this RPG / Combat card game mix on kickstarter and thought I'd share it here. The combat part seems like a HEMA type game/heavily influenced.

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/st-caedmon-studios/knight-errant/description?gad_source=1&gclid=Cj0KCQiA4fi7BhC5ARIsAEV1YiZS_REm8bypn_cVM5ZJz2vIatOb9qdVxWfKOTj_MDMe5mPQFXhBEUwaAokzEALw_wcB
(Yes, I'm posting on a few places for groups that I think might be interested. No, I'm not the owner of it, but I like the project.)

Hi!

I hope this is the right place to ask a question like this.

Anyway, I just got a Roman helmet for my birthday present! It's one of those post Dacian wars things with the extended neck cover and reinforcements.

I have a scutum from before, and what with the general layout of the room it's in, I figure that the best way to display the helmet is to somehow hang it on the wall above the scutum. Is it possible to just hang it on the wall somehow, or would it be better to get a shelf and a helmet stand?

I’ve already reached out to Kvetun, so this isn’t a customer service post but I’ve never seen an Easton blade break before and we have many of them at our club and have for a couple years. The saber is only about 6 months old, used maybe weekly and only in a few tournament bouts. It broke during light drills against an identical blade. The grain structure looks a tiny bit coarse to my untrained eye. Was pretty crazy as we’ve never seen one of these break!

Vor is often thought of as 'attack the opponent so that you force them to parry you'. However, parry, or versetzen, is really something like displace, right? What you really want is your opponent to attack/displace your sword. Therefore, being in the Vor doesn't (just) mean you are making a direct attack at them, it means you are constraining their options with a threat that says "I'm going to stab or hit you in my next action unless you do what I want". This narrows down the things your opponent is likely to do from any number of things to just one or two likely actions that you can predict.

Well that's how I'm now thinkng about it. Or am I wrong?

How might this work in practice? Share your tips.

im laying in bed looking at one of my katana and randomly thought to put metal on the back of the scabbard leading into a sort of small gaurd meant for parrying. i have a cheap sword i can try it out on but im wondering if anyone here has any thoughts on it.

https://urqzek-3n.myshopify.com/?_ab=0&_fd=0&_sc=1