Welcome to my blog about HEMA and my takes on sports historical fencing!
So... Several questions to answer:
1) What is the purpose of this blog?
To sort out and clarify my own thoughts about HEMA and sword fighting, which is for me always easier to do when I write things down. If anyone will read it, great. If not, well, it is not the main goal of this blog.
2) Who are you?
When it comes to HEMA, I am just a noob who started in September 2022 and who is dueling (sparring) only since March 2023. I am very lucky my club is extremely good and our coach is probably one of the very best and most talented HEMA practitioners currently; what more, he also goes far beyond HEMA when it comes to historical background, safety, and health overall.
As for me personally, I have no sports background but what is interesting, I have a semi-professional background in fighting games (playing mainly 3Ds - Virtua Fighter, then Tekken, currently SoulCalibur) and I find it extremely interesting to watch how some of the aspects between these games and HEMA overlaps, sometimes to an insane extent. Especially mensura / neutral and tempo / frames are very interesting counterparts if you start comparing those.
3) How good are you?
Not at all. I am old, fat, clumsy, and overall incompetent. Working on it hard, which partly is what this blog is meant for.
4) How often will you post?
Who knows. Absolutely randomly, whenever I will need to sort my thoughts on any topic out. Probably few times/month, depending on what will go on and what I will learn (or realize I need to learn)
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