Hi everyone! As we all know HEMA has many different aspects that are all equally important in our shared effort in recreating these forgotten martial arts. Lately, tournaments have received much attention and the top fighters are household names for … Continue reading →
To all swordsmiths, protection gear manufacturers, equipment retailers, event organizers and other HEMA-related business owners: HROARR is now introducing a discreet and HEMA-specific Ad banner system to help you market your products. The hope is that this will get you … Continue reading →
The beauty of posting your texts on HROARR is that we then can have lots of HEMA articles published under various categories, even quite specific ones, where people post their thoughts and research, and all of it is searchable for … Continue reading →
From at least as far back as the early to mid 1400s, all the way up until about the French Revolution in 1789, longsword fencers have been practicing with fechtschwerter, or what is today commonly called federschwert, a specific sword type with a … Continue reading →
Hi everyone! I would like to share a bit of my vision for the new HROARR site. First of all, its purpose is simply to help research, material development and practicing of HEMA. This is done by providing tools, source … Continue reading →
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Glützhauw – Clashing Cut
— Higgins Armory Sword Guild
Secondary Cut: A short-edge cut in which the hands point upward and the sword crosses in front of the body at an angle to the line of encounter.
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The Higgins Armory Sword Guild
Gothenburg Historical Fencing School

The Historical European Martial Arts Coalition

The Meyer Frei Fechter Guild

The HEMA Alliance
How may we join the petition for the Foreng translation of Meyer if we aren’t on Facebook. I have been trying to get a copy but at $350.00 to $400.00 haven’t yet.
Well it is a bit tricky since it is just that; a Facebook list.
However, Dr. Forgeng is part of that list and said this, just the other day:
“So here’s the update: I.33 went in to the Armouries on Sunday, and should be out by early summer. Look for substantial improvements over the first edition, including analysis of the MISSING PAGES!
This week I’ll send a note off to Palgrave to find out whether they’d like to do a reprint of Meyer. I’ve decided not to worry about Pen-and-Sword, since I’ve already asked them by email, and I don’t think they have as good a capacity as PM. If I don’t get a positive response from them this month, I have several backups in mind, and I expect I can have a new publisher lined up by the end of March.
The joint Iberian volume with Noel Fallows looks like it will fall through, due to issues with one of the texts, so I’ll probably also be publishing the Duarte separately, and sooner rather than later, since it’s virtually ready to go.
Once those are sorted out, I’ll see about pinning down the Leckuechner, which I expect to happen by the middle of the year. Pretty much all of the above books are ready to go, or very nearly. After that it’s back to Mair and Monte–both well advanced, but will take more time to get ready for press.
I’ll update as I hear more from the publishers! JLF”
The FB group already has half the amount of members that the first print of the book amounted to, so the chances of a 2nd print should be good.