@@lukehowerter this is a group called the SCA! We have this style of combat as well as fencing/rapier combat with steel swords, and also many other types of historical art! You can find your local group at SCA.org and visit a practice! They are almost always free to attend with free loaner gear and instruction!
@@sirtenders2965 HEMA focuses strictly on dueling according to manuals from a very specific time period. SCA is more broad, encompassing any culture and time period before 1600. We don't strictly subscribe to having to use a certain masters book, and the SCA also has much more than combat, with participants able to focus on different arts, archery, or even equestrian without ever touching combat.
This looks fun. UA-cam recommended this to me but I don’t know what this is. What do you call this sport?
Im pretty sure this would be HEMA fencing, basically historically accurate fencing.
@@lukehowerter this is a group called the SCA! We have this style of combat as well as fencing/rapier combat with steel swords, and also many other types of historical art! You can find your local group at SCA.org and visit a practice! They are almost always free to attend with free loaner gear and instruction!
@@sirtenders2965 close, this is SCA. We do have a type of combat like hema, but this is our armored combat
@@katiegilroy9863 ah i see whats the main difference
@@sirtenders2965 HEMA focuses strictly on dueling according to manuals from a very specific time period.
SCA is more broad, encompassing any culture and time period before 1600. We don't strictly subscribe to having to use a certain masters book, and the SCA also has much more than combat, with participants able to focus on different arts, archery, or even equestrian without ever touching combat.