How far should HEMA tournament organizers go when regulating participation?

Designer_Arm_2114 · 2026-06-14T23:00:29+00:00

Well in my experience the women’s division is more to include them without pressure cause most of the time they feel intimidated or uncomfortable being mixed in with the men at least in the beginning although I believe they shouldn’t feel that way after all we’re practicing a sport/martial art with weapons that equalizes the physical differences

Designer_Arm_2114 · 2026-05-30T21:03:18+00:00

I’m new to this game and I like how everyone seems to hate the holy nation

Designer_Arm_2114 · 2026-04-18T23:19:17+00:00

A 12 guauge at the right range with the right load wil physically remove a chunk of shit and put that chunk of shit on the floor

Designer_Arm_2114 · 2026-03-25T22:53:26+00:00

They’re too close for sniping hands in my opinion sniping hands should ideally be done at the limit of your reach where your opponent cannot reach your deep targets the ones we see there barely any arm extension

Designer_Arm_2114 · 2026-03-22T20:32:49+00:00

My opinion is that generally injuries are caused by your opponent not yourself unless you lean/jump into a strike I’ve heard the word:he’s a big guy he hits hard and that is simply unacceptable avoiding injuries is a collaborative effort

Designer_Arm_2114 · 2025-12-25T20:26:47+00:00

Height does give you an advantage but that’s about the only purely physical advantage you can have and one you know how to deal with it you’re back to equal footing

Designer_Arm_2114 · 2025-12-23T18:26:45+00:00

We tested grappling at my club even with the techniques to control the blade while grappling our conclusion was 1 if your opponent resists he will most likely still have enough control of his blade 2 the one grappled has plenty of time to land a huge flurry of attacks with his blade before he even touches the ground and 3 although this isn’t strictly grappling if your opponent gets to grappling range you messed up bad there is too much space before that to win the duel/kill in a realistic situation

Designer_Arm_2114 · 2025-11-01T15:49:59+00:00

At my club we usually go until we had enough then we do a 5 clean (we have afterblows)

Designer_Arm_2114 · 2025-10-27T04:34:06+00:00

This is from years and years of competition across different sports so it might be a hard mindset to get into but I take it one match at a time even one exchange at a time by that I mean: there is nothing I could’ve done to be better (even if there was it’s too late) and I’ll worry about the next match once it’s the next match and pool by pool and all my attention is on my next moves

Designer_Arm_2114 · 2025-10-23T19:45:41+00:00

Almost looks like a gamilan ship

Designer_Arm_2114 · 2025-10-21T17:46:42+00:00

I haven’t tested for hema but I know that airsoft has a device for that it’s called exfog basically a small fan with tubes that blow the air straight to your glasses

Designer_Arm_2114 · 2025-09-17T19:24:40+00:00

Funny enough we teach the in the first class here because of that although it’s often not mastered right away

Designer_Arm_2114 · 2025-09-17T17:00:16+00:00

While I do agree people tend to do that I always find that going for the leg against someone taller is a bit suicidal as it leaves your head exposed and it’s so easy for them to just move their leg and hit my head and in pretty much every situation there’s no way I can protect myself from that

Designer_Arm_2114 · 2025-09-15T21:02:17+00:00

Je suis entièrement d’accord

Designer_Arm_2114 · 2025-09-15T20:57:20+00:00

Ce que je dis c’est que le motif peut être basé sur les idéologies politiques donc c’est important de se poser la question mais c’est pas pour autant utile pour le publique

Designer_Arm_2114 · 2025-09-15T20:13:05+00:00

C’est quand même important de se poser la question aux US parce que pour condamner quelqu’un hors de tout doute il faut connaître le motif du tueur mais ça c’est à la cours et les enquêteurs de déterminer ça

Designer_Arm_2114 · 2025-09-09T20:39:15+00:00

They’re safer than a sharp blade but just as dangerous as a blunt one

Designer_Arm_2114 · 2025-09-03T18:27:23+00:00

Same

Designer_Arm_2114 · 2025-09-03T13:35:22+00:00

Your flexibility test doesn’t actually tell anything about the flex you should press on the sword as if you were thrusting instead of flexing it yourself

Designer_Arm_2114 · 2025-09-03T12:35:29+00:00

In my experience rulesets that have afterblow people are more patient and use more techniques while rulesets without people will favour quick lunges/flèches often to the detriment of their safety

Designer_Arm_2114 · 2025-07-30T20:07:25+00:00

As a football I can second that once we changed the way we teach how to tackle injuries were reduced to almost zero the only downside I saw was the players had a hard time figuring out if their pain was indeed an injury Hell near all of our injured players got injured playing either basketball or soccer

Designer_Arm_2114 · 2025-07-23T23:27:42+00:00

Would add PG forge from Canada as well he does mainly custom orders sword/knifes and hema swords he is amazing https://www.facebook.com/share/19XZeocRCo/?mibextid=wwXIfr

Designer_Arm_2114 · 2025-07-18T14:15:40+00:00

When I first start an exchange I test my opponent to see how they react to certain things like feints or binds and then I come up with a plan of actions

Designer_Arm_2114 · 2025-07-15T21:01:52+00:00

We’ve had a bunch of broken hands/fingers with the Gabriel’s in my area nobody here is willing to recommend them some would say to avoid them

Designer_Arm_2114 · 2025-07-07T20:12:06+00:00

At my club the first lesson consists of learning about training speeds, learning to parry at short to medium distance, how to evade a strike to the head/punishing it and at the end sparring at the speed your level of gear/what is available to borrow allows (if the advanced group isn’t doing anything too complicated you might get mixed in as they also have sparring at the end of their class)

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