Tag Archive: tournaments

Rethinking the HEMA tournament and the social contract

James October 22, 2015

Despite some of the accusations levelled at me after the last two blog posts (here and here), I really enjoy tournaments. I’ve run and competed in HEMA tournaments since before they were popular, and I see them as an essential…
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HEMA, rules, tournaments

Some observations on women, tournaments and heavy hitting

James August 25, 2015

I’d like to think I’ve done a decent cross-section through the HEMA tournament in Europe. At the same time, I’ve been organising tournaments bimonthly to yearly in South Africa. I’ve spent a lot of time fighting, judging and organising tournaments,…
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HEMA, tournaments, women