Arts We Train 

Weapon Arts

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Knightly Arts

One of our schools main focuses is on the Liechtenauer tradition of knightly martial arts.
Our curriculum focuses on the study and interpretation of Liechtenauers Zettel & the Nürnberger Handschrift sometimes attributed to Hans Dobringer.

Over time we hope to expand our curriculum of knightly martial arts to include the other parts of the Liechtenauer tradition which include fighting, unarmed, with dagger, single-handed sword, spear and poleaxe in and out of armour.
If you'd like to know more about how we train this art click here.

Self Defence

Savate D.D.L.R

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Savate is a French form of kick boxing which originated as a form of martial sport aboard ships.
The form of Savate we are most interested in is the DDLR or defense dans la rue (Defence on the street) which we study as a self defence art.

If you'd like to know more about how we train this art click here.

Martial Sports

The Art and science of bare knuckle boxing is both a martial sport and a functional form of self defence.
In our Savate class we instruct Boxe Anglaise (English boxing) as suggested by the DDLR savate Master Jean Joseph-Renaud.

Bare-Knuckle Boxing

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We base our Bare knuckle boxing (Pugilism) instructions on the manuals left to us by both the French masters of Savate and the English masters of Pugilism.
However we plan to use bare knuckle boxing in its original form of Martial Sport as the first level of Sparring for our Savate classes.
If you'd like to know more about how we train this art click here.

Rapier

Rapier was a popular civilian dueling weapon during the 16th and 17th century.
We have previously run classes in the art of Italian Rapier.

The other nation famous for its rapier art was Spain however the English fencing Master Joseph Swetnam also had his own take on the use of trapier.
We presently run Italian rapier as one of our arts we teach in our cultural calendar, we do not presently teach Spanish or English rapier.

When we run sessions on the different Rapier fighting arts we will publish more information on how we train these arts and the techniques and principals applicable to them.

Catch Wrestling

We are presently introducing the study of catch as catch can wrestling in our weekend sessions and integrating it into our curriculum as part of our self defence arts.
Catch wrestling is a martial sport allowing victory by 

pin or submission which may or may not ban choke-holds.Catch Wrestling is also studied as part of out cultural calendar when the grappling arts become a more regular part of our curriculum we will publish more information our training methodology and their mechanics.

Small-Sword

We have previously run sessions on French smallsword according to 
Liancour, L'Abbot and Angelo along with Scottish Smallsword according to Sir William hope.
 

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These are presently studied as part of out cultural calendar and occasionally run as private sessions. 
If these session gain in numbers we will eventually launch a week night session on smallsword and aim to develop toward including sabre and broadsword.
Alternatively smallsword and rapier may become a rotational set of classes on civilian dueling arts.
If or when this occurs we will publish more information on our approach to these systems.

 

Umbrella & Cane

We have previously run sessions on the art of umbrella  fighting and cane fighting as part of our rotational cultural calendar.
Eventually these arts will become part of the situational self defence section of our DDLR Savate curriculum.

However these will be specific to those studying savate as a form of situational self defence and not be a requirement for those only wanting to do unarmed arts.
These arts will be trained during weekend sessions and as part of our rotational calendar however if our savate classes continue to grow they may also become optional training during these sessions.

 

Folk Wrestling

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As well as the small amount of catch Wrestling we have thus far been able to include in our self defence training we also study medieval wrestling both with and without a weapon in play and other forms of folk wrestling which we 

sometimes run sessions on part of our cultural calendar of martial arts.
These include Scottish back-hold wrestling, collar and elbow wrestling and La Lutte.
When these arts become more regularly trained we will publish more information on our approach to training them and their techniques.

Staves & pole-arms

We presently have very little experience with spears, quarterstaff or polearms however this is something we are aiming to fix both within the knightly arts we presently study and beyond into the Renascence & enlightenment period.

These arts will begin to be included in our cultural calendar of martial arts along with the descendants of such weapons like the military bayonet of the 18th century and onwards.

Knife Fighting 

We have previously run sessions on Italian stiletto fighting and the Spanish art of fighting with Navaja as part of our cultural calendar. 
Eventually defence both with or against knife fighting  arts will become part of  our DDLR Savate curriculum.

This will not requirement for those only wanting to do unarmed arts. however is still suggested for learning disarms etc.

Single Stick

While intended initially as a way of training sabre, cutlass or broadsword single-stick became a sport all of itself and was considered a part of classical fencing.
While we have run sessions in our cultural calendar on broadsword and sabre we are yet to construct the basket hilted trainers and train single-stick as a sport of its own.
Unlike other stick fighting systems single stick is designed as a sport and not as a self defence method.

Other forms of H.E.M.A 

Weapon Arts

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Bayonet -American
Bayonet -English

Broadsword-Scottish

Cane Fighting -English

Cane Fighting -French
Cane fighting – Irish

Cane fighting -Swiss

Knife fighting-Spanish
Knife Fighting-Italian

Knightly arts-English
Knightly arts-German
Knightly arts-Italian

Rapier-Italian
Rapier-Spanish
Rapier-English
Sabre-Polish
Sabre-English
Sabre-French
Sidesword-German
Sidesword-Italian
Shortsword-English

Smallsword-English
Smallsword-French

Smallsword-Scottish
Staff Fighting -Portuguese

Staff fighting-English
Staff fighting – German

Umbrella Fighting -French
Umbrella Fighting -English

Self Defence Arts

Cane Fighting (Bartitsu)-English

Cane Fighting (Savate)-French
Cane fighting (Bataireacht)– Irish

Cane fighting (shillelagh)– Irish
Cane fighting (Vigny) -Swiss

Catch as catch can-English

Combatives -Fairburn-Sykes -English
Combatives -LINE-system-American

Combatives -Abwehr Englischer Gangster Methoden – German

Defense Dans La Rue (Savate)– French

Knife fighting (Navaja)-Spanish
Knife Fighting (stiletto) -Italian
Knife Fighting (Savate) -French

Pankration-Greek

Pugilism – English
Rough and Tumble – American
Savate- Défense dans la rue - French
Savate - Défense (modern) - French

Umbrella Fighting (Savate)-French

Umbrella Fighting (Bartisu)-French

Martial Sports

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Abrazarre-Italian
Backhold wrestling-English

Backhold wrestling-Scottish

Bare Knuckle Boxing- English

Catch as catch can-English

Classical Fencing
Collar and elbow wrestling-English
Collar and elbow wrestling-Irish

Free style wrestling -American

Glima-Icelandic

Gouren -French

Greco-roman wrestling – French

Kampfringen-German

La-Canne-French

La Lutte -French

Lucha Canaria-Spanish

Lucha Leonesa-Spanish

Narodno Rvanje -Serbian
Pankration-Greek
Rough and tumble -American

Single-stick-English
Schwingen-Swiss
Savate – French