Returning from The English Sidesword Open is always a melancholy affair, but 2019 really emphasised this feeling. Hosted in Oxford, the ‘City of Dreaming Spires’, we fought in the centre of an old and venerable city at one of the few major European events dedicated purely to the use of the sidesword and its companion …
Happy Valentines Sword Folks
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Dreynevent 2019
Last weekend I had the opportunity to attend the Dreynevent in Vienna, making it our first public workshop of the year (the second being at the English Sidesword Open just four days later!). Dreyn is the biggest HEMA event in the DACH (Germany, Austria, Switzerland) region, and yet by some organisational miracle still manages to …