Skalastet – Sami quarterstaff & spear fighting tradition in Northern Sweden
Little is known of any indigenous martial arts traditions of Scandinavia, and while the Icelandic...
Read MorePosted by Roger Norling | Oct 30, 2014 | Articles, Fencing Culture |
Little is known of any indigenous martial arts traditions of Scandinavia, and while the Icelandic...
Read MorePosted by Roger Norling | May 6, 2014 | Articles, Meyer Articles, Meyer Halben Stangen, Study Articles, Teaching & training methods, Techniques & interpretation |
Here’s the workshop on Joachim Meyer’s quarterstaff held by me and my fellow GHFS member Mattias Moberg at the HEMAC Florentia event in March, in Florence, Italy. It has been edited down from a 3 hour workshop into a...
Read MorePosted by Kit Smith | Apr 26, 2013 | Articles, Teaching & training methods |
I first learned staff in the late eighties, and although I was not that interested in the provenance, as I recall my master learned it in Scouts as a child. I never had any documentation for it, but it was a simple system...
Read MorePosted by Roger Norling | Jul 17, 2012 | Articles, Fencing Culture, Research articles, Study Articles |
This article is written to accompany the recent article about the mysticist, and possibly even fencer and a Freyfechter, Heinrich Agrippa. If you haven’t read the article, it is suggested you do so, before...
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