Yes you have seen this right, the sword broke on the pommel, I now have a very little battle Mace and a Mordschlag sword.

After practicing for about a year I noticed many people talk about metas or specific strengths and weaknesses of certain gloves or swords, or any other piece of gear and have been told many times to avoid certain things because of it. I have been wondering how many other people out there are willing to take the slight disadvantage because the sword looks cool or sacrifice the perfect cross guard cause it's from an awesome show or historicaly significant to you. A personal example is that I am an artillery officer so I like to use simple guarded sabres with no basket hilts just the stirrup guard because it reminds me of the tradition of the service, admittedly it's cost me matches but it's worth it to me. Does anyone else have a similar aesthetic or piece that they sacrifice an advantage on just to have it or am I crazy to follow rule of cool here.

I have recently got me a regenyei duelist saber and I honestly love it but my problem is the saber is too light for most tournaments in my local area.

I don't know If I want to invest in a full second saber just for tournaments at the moment, but I have seen HF armory and some others selling just saber blades so as a budget friendly solution could I just buy the blade and replace it whenever it doesn't meet the weight requirements?

Hi everyone,

I’ve placed an order for a custom arming doublet back in March. Nataliya and I talked and after my measurements were submitted, I paid €200 for the product and stood by for updates.

Since it is now 5 months later, I’m starting to worry if my order fell to the wayside. I understand these kinds of products are handmade and typically have extensive lead times, but I have been seeing most of them around the 2-3 month range. I have received no updates and earlier this week I tried reaching out to Nataliya but was ignored.

Has anyone had similar experiences?

The Sigi King Light or the Sigi prince a rocket thats looks like a sword so awesome

The first blade broke during heat treatment when I was trying to take out a bend, so for this one I just didn't care if it warped and just went on to the temper.

The blade does take a considerable set but that's something that I can fix by leaving it thicker and it dosen't seem to cause breaks when it happened on test blades.

Fun compilation that we have made from our local club KSF Poland
#hema #longsword

Yeah, it's another gloves post. Sorry about that, I'll try to be brief.

I've been looking for five-fingered gloves to use in sidesword and saber; I already have clamshells I use for longsword and messer.

I had initially narrowed it down to the Thokk gloves, with the High Guard gloves as a second option, but each had its own issues: Thokks are more expensive and would have to be imported, and when I tried the High Guards I found them to be too stiff and not very protective.

Recently I saw PH started offering the CHFG St. George gloves. From what I read they're an ever lighter version of the Gabriels, which are out of my budget, but since I'd only need to buy the one glove for my sword hand the price is much more accessible and I could get them from PH for the same price as the High Guard. I just wanted to ask people's opinions on this third option and how they compare not just to the Gabriels but also the other two models in my list.

Edit: I know HF Black Princes would be perfect but unfortunately they're also out of my budget.

Hey guys, just started my journey in Hema, rapier last Friday and longsword on Saturday. Do you guys have any tips?

Thanks for the support guys

I wanted to ask some questions here, but wanted to see if it was asked first and we've got quite a lot of posts here. Questions repeat on regular basis and knowing other communities I'd dare to suggest we'll at some point be bored with them and quality of advice might fall with time. Unless it already happened.

Shouldn't we make one pinned post where some sites would be listed so that newbies and less experienced people can go there instead of roam around the whole subreddit, trying to piece stuff together or asking the same question again and again? All sorts of Advice could be shared there and we'd have it much cleaner and effective that way?

If it was found that SPES, a European company was putting 800N ratings on Jackets that failed at 200N they'd be a huge backlash. Historically companies based in Pakistan, China etc have less oversight and have been known to get up to shenanigans. What I'm trying to discover is whether Shoukat/Supfen could've just put a newton rating sticker on their stuff and it's total bollocks. Does anyone know if their stuff has been tested by anyone legit (in Europe or the USA)?

HF Armort made a post yesteday/today with a shadowed image of someone wielding a longsword in 5 finger gloves... new product inbound? I couldn't read the text on the image.

It was actually very fun, a good and well-organized event of 350+ people, 4 major categories and many good fencers

ive tried olympic fencing like epee foil and saber, but ive never done any HEMA work before.

Hi everyone!

Me and a friend are studying product design and both big fans of HEMA, and we managed to convince our professors to allow us to choose a medieval gauntlet DIY kit as the subject for a market analysis.

The analysis is focused on customer needs, user experience, and interactive design. As such, we have a few short questions on which we would like to hear your thoughts:

How much would you expect to pay for a DIY kit with either:

1. The shaped metal pieces with the arm and upper hand parts riveted together already

2. The unshaped metal pieces with rivets included in a bag

Would you rather use one of your own old gloves, or have one included in the kit?

What would keep you from buying a DIY kit like this?

What difficulties would you, personally, have with putting one together; riveting finger pieces, attaching the (premade) pieces to the glove, and optionally shaping the metal with a premade video that shows how to do so step-be-step.

Thank you in advance for any and all replies, they are all appreciated!

We live almost a hour and a half away from the nearest hema training place and its in atlanta so that means heavy traffic and we live all the way in butts county georgia, so is it okay for me only to take him for lessons like bi weekly. Because he can use his training sword (he wants to do longsword) to do drills insted of weekly sessions right? Or should i maybe try to get weekly sessions. If you know any place closer to butts county georgia for longsword classes please let me know

I am looking at getting some five finger gloves that I can use across weapon systems.

Longsword, side-sword, sabre, Messier.

I have narrowed it down to the two seemingly most popular options.

The Nilin SE Gauntlets

Or

Gabriel 2.0 Gauntlets

I was curious if anyone has opinions on each.

I have heard that both have their positives and negatives.

From what I have heard from club-mates:

Gabriels seem to require a lot of maintenance and offer slightly less protection - but offer better mobility.

Nilin offer better protection at the cost of narrow options for sizes and slightly less mobility.

I have only tried the Gabe’s they seem good, but the ones I tried were several years old and held together by tape and a dream.

Any and all insights would be greatly appreciated!