Author: Devon Boorman

We often overestimate what we can accomplish in one day, while we underestimate what we can accomplish in five years if we were to start taking small …

Learning how to see what's happening and then build relevant responses is one of the more challenging aspects of swordplay but also one of the most sa…

Last week I was an instructor and director (referee) at the South East Renaissance Fencing Open (SERFO) in Atlanta, Georgia. This is definitely one of…

I have had the opportunity to be teaching at this event for the past 10 years and it is always one of my favorite events as both a teacher and partici…

Self-calling of tournament blows has the challenge of being more difficult to implement when groups with different cultures interact and when there is…

When you let go of the idea that you can't remember names, then the possibility of remembering them begins. Here are three tips to get you started.

This event aims to be a meeting of Historical European Martial Arts practitioners from HEMA clubs and from historical re-enactment backgrounds (primar…

This past week I hosted an online webinar about how to take a technique learned in class and make it something that is actually an internalized skill.…

This event was hosted by Valour HEMA with support from Winnipeg Knightly Arts and Manitoba Broadsword. It featured two tournaments on Saturday and sev…