I am a fencer

Some of the exchanges from my bouts at Vasaslaget-18 in Gamla Uppsala, Sweden. Hosted by Uppsala Historical Fencing School. The ruleset awarded bonus points for covering lines before and after a...

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A rare treat; a competitive single rapier bout between Francesco Loda and Ton Puey, from Briscia Pro Challenge -17. Ton rarely competes, but made an exception for this tournament. He took third ...

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This is one of my favourite fencing images,  a display of a Fechtschule event between Marxbruder and Freifecther. Join me as we go through some of the many amazing details of this image, and rel...

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Footage from a sparring bout with Ken Kot of Hong Kong earlier this year. We got video of the session from two angles, one is in slow motion. https://www.facebook.com/axelpetterssonhistoricalfe...

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Kristine Konsmo and Axel Pettersson at Brescia Pro Challenge 2017. Axel took gold in the longsword tournament.

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A compilation of most of my exchanges from Brescia Pro HEMA challenge in December-17, my first competition in one and a half years. Being rusty I fall back to flinch responses alot; the left Zw...

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worldhistoryfacts : > Leopards kill a Roman criminal in a Tunisian mosaic dating from the > 200s CE. Some criminals who were set against predators in the arena > were ...

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Long swords with short blades, what? The longswords you usually see at events and clubs around the world today are really on the long end of the historical spectrum, historically longswords were...

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Kristine finally has enough of my hand sniping and have at me (watch to the end), I deserved that one! Context for the video:  1. I was going for alot of “cheap” and not so cheap hand hits...

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A and B both starts in Pflug,  -A drops the point as queue  -B makes a single step followed by a longer single step or lunge and thrust to the face -A parries -B strikes around with a short...

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An interview with Axel Pettersson by Maciej Talaga of ARMA Poland, done right after Swordfish. “ Hello everybody,finally, I had some time to start preparing videos from what I recorded and exp...

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ordinaryvisionary : > (via https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Mj6aiYlT-Y > )  >  > Behold! The 2017 livestream is online.  >  > By now, even my friends that know nothing of�...

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The original Historical European Martial Arts tumblr page, powered by Historical Fencing/HEMA instructor Axel Pettersson of Sweden. “In these modern times, many men are wounded for not having weapons or knowledge of their use.” /Fencing master Achille Marozzo, Italy 16th century.

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Working combos with Mark Wilkie, Ken Kot, Kristine Konsmo and Julia Yli-Hukka, what a lineup! You’ll see me come in and provide feedback throughout the video. We are working with free strikes ...

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Kristine working the pell: 30 second intervals with a pre set pattern (in this case free strikes Cut high right- feint high left with Ablauffen- cut free- parry in Kron-cut free) followed by 15 s...

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Pedantry and attention to detail pays off, with the right help! A classic mistake done when teaching HEMA is to focus too much on small details of movement and the minutae of tactical approaches ...

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Longsword competition starting every exchange from the bind, Axel Pettersson vs Cristoffer Holm.

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From yesterdays practice; Kristine and Julia are working their ability to change direction: -A leads, B follows and maintains distance, -when A drops the point, B attacks with two diagonal long...

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