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HEMA fighter: anyone wanna work longsword?

Me: oh yeah!

HEMA fighter: anyone wanna work rapier?

Me: *sigh* yeah

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Dutch longsword fencer Tosca Beuming

Photographed by Martin Philippo and Andress Kools

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Sword and buckler combat, Tacuinum Sanitatis, Lombardy, ca. 1390

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Went to my first HEMA tournament this weekend.

I fenced smallsword, and rapier and dagger. Placed 10th and 8th respectively which feels great!

I'm planning on going to another tournament in May now too.

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Sword in the service of George VII

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Bronze breastplate uncovered near Filinges, France, circa 1100 BC

from the Museum of Art and History, Geneva

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Rapier, German Lands/Spain, circa 1600-1620 year of manufacture.

The total length is 1025 mm, the blade length is 864 mm, the weight is 933 grams. A very interesting, unusual blade, the whole strong part of which is essentially a ricasso. This part of the blade is equipped with a whole system of valleys on each side - a central short wide one, turning into two short narrow ones and two side narrow long ones. In a wide proportion, the signature of the master who made the BERNS / IOHANNES blade is visible.

The following inscriptions are made in the narrow valleys on both sides: VIVA EL REY PHILIPP III / SOLI DEO GLORIA / REY DE ESPANNA Y PURTUGUAL.

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Sword, Southern Germany, 1st half of the 16th century

from The Museum of Art and History Geneva

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The artist Paweł Ponichtera seems to have inexplicably dedicated a massive amount of time and effort to hyper-detailed and hyper-accurate illustrations of chinchillas engaged in historical fencing, many with clear and specific reference to particular historical treatises. So, I give you:

Hans Talhoffer Chinchillas

Harnisfechten Chinchillas

Joachim Meyer Longsword Chinchillas

Fantastical Snail Marginalia Chinchillas

Olympic Epee Chinchillas

Salvator Fabris Rapier-in-the-Nude Chinchillas

Napoleonic Saber Chinchillas

Arabic Shamshir Chinchillas

18th Century Smallsword Chinchillas

I.33 Sword and Buckler Chinchillas

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Composite sword with yatagan blade and schiavona hilt, Malta, 17th-18th century

from Czerny's International Auction House

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Parrying dagger, Italy, circa 1630

from Hermann Historica