Göteborgs Historiska Fäktskola

Hosted in Uppsala by SvHEMAF, the Swedish HEMA Federation, HEMASM 2015 was the first ever official national HEMA championship worldwide. Tournaments weere held in womens longsword, open longsword, rapier & dagger and sabre.

GHFS won both gold and silver in womens longsword (Julia Yli-Hukka and Weronica Odsvik) and in Open Longsword (Anders Linnard and Jonathan Wilkins). In sabre, Andreas Engström placed 4th.

Congratulations to all participants and especially our medalists!

Video of the bouts can be found here: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCh8SpKZ5n5bo-Fookz10taw

In the final installment of the Nordic Historical Fencing League 2015, Örebro Open, GHFS claimed silver in both open longsword and rapier & dagger through Axel Pettersson, as well as bronze in sabre through the same.

Julia Yli-Hukka took her second gold in womens longsword, also winning the overall Womens League.

The overall point tally of GHFS fencers over the year also meant that the club won the overall Team Tournament.

lecture on residual effects of training (in Swedish): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5sExWx0qLGA

Exhibition fights: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yOPdmwnQRu8

Duel over the right to purchase a buckler: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iHmmnf5i5vU

Jag säljer ett Darkwood sidesword + dolk för sparring, pris 2500kr för båda två, eller 2000kr för bara svärdet. I fint skick, nyligen fejat och putsat blad.

Jag köpte dom för att träna med GHFS Svärd&Dolk-grupp på fredagarna men är sällan hemma på helgerna så jag hinner inte.

Det är långsvärdsfeders i första hand, vill ni ha något annat, messers, rapirer, sablar etc, så säg till så beställer jag det också, men det är inget jag kan ha i lager.

Priset för långsvärdet blir ca 2500kr, vill ni prova dom innan så prata med någon i klubben, de allra flesta har de här fedrarna som är specialgjorda efter GHFS önskemål. Det är även dessa som kommer att användas i t.ex Swordfish, NHFL och andra tävlingar.

Andreas Markhed of Malmö Historical Fencing School has started a HEMA podcast. The first episode features an interview with GHFS instructor Axel Pettersson. Listen to it here:

http://hemapodcast.com/

Axel Pettersson of GHFS, Sweden participated in the IGX tournaments in Boston, September 20-22, together with several other prominent fencers like Anton Kohutovic, Dustin Reagan, Nathan Grepares, Ben Strickling, Casper Anderson and Andrew Kilgore.

Axel took silver in spear fencing after Dustin Reagan, and then proceeded to take first place in sword & buckler, defeating Andrew Kilgore in the finals. Axel also got the award for best technical fencing in the sword & buckler tournament. To finish up, Axel defeated Nathan Grepares in a spectacular fight in the longsword final.  The successes at IGX means Axel has taken first place in six different international tournaments this year and two second places, an unparallelled achievement in the modern HEMA scene.

IGX featured a special award for the participant who had gathered the most score overall at the various tournaments. This prize was won by the great Andrew Kilgore who won the cutting tournament and placed 2nd in heavyweight wrestling, heavyweight dagger and sword & buckler. Axel took second place overall, after dropping out of the cutting tournament due to fatigue.

The monday after the event was spent at Higgins Armory Museum, studying historical weapons and fencing manuscripts under the guidance of Dr. Jeffrey Forgeng. Some fascinating lectures was given, notably by Jeanry Chandler on townlife and weapon use in medieval towns, and Michael Chidester on the life of Joachim Meyer.

We want to thank Jeff Tsay and his team at Forte for putting together an excellent event, and hope that more Europeans wil join us again next year.

The livestream featuring all final fights can be found here: Iron Gate Exhibition 2013 Livestream