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Resources for the Historical European Martial Arts & Sports Community

HEMA Scholar Awards 2013

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 →
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To all HEMA-related business owners

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 →
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Post your thoughts on HROARR

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 →
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A call to arms!

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 →
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An open invitation.

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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Engström Andreas, GHFS / HEMAC

Instructor: Andreas Engström

Country: Sweden

Club: Gothenburg Historical Fencing School

Bio: Andreas fences both with the longsword, based on the “Ringeck” treatise and with a sabre in the Swedish Military style. He also teaches the latter at Gothenburg Historical Fencing School and has taught it at several international events as well.

Andreas is also an accomplished translator of Fechtbuchen and has translated the treatise Dresd.487 “Sigmund Ringeck” into Swedish, which has been used as a foundation for the training of GHFS. He has also transcribed the Codex I.6.2.5, the “Hans Medel fechtbuch”.

Workshops:

Basic Swedish infantry sabre

Advanced Swedish infantry sabre

Ringen am Schwert – an introduction

Ringen am Schwert – from Codex Wallerstein

Events taught at: Swordfish, Fightcamp

Contact: engstrom.andreas@gmail.com