Thursday
10:00a – 10:30a
Welcome & Introductions
10:30a – 12:30p
Mark Lancaster
Find Your Inner Animals: The Symbology of the Swordsman
Christian Tobler
Messerfechten of the Baumann’s Fechtbuch
Da’mon Stith
North African Stick & Sabre
12:30p – 1:15p
Lunch
1:15p – 3:15p
Loreen Mattis
Training Games
Eric Myers & Puck Curtis
Italian Dueling Sword: Practical Italian Epee as a Martial Art
Mike Cherba
Lashkroba: Introduction to Georgian Sword and Buckler
Special Event
Armoured Combat:
Mini-Deed
3:30p – 5:15p
Jay Maas
Highland Broadsword & Targe
Rob Rutherfoord
The True Principles of Combat
Federico Malagutti
Poste di Spada, Tagli e Punte
Special Event
Armoured Combat:
Mini-Deed
5:30p – 7:30p
Greg Mele
Three Turns of the Sword
Christian Cameron
The Bolognese Thrust
James Reilly
Motion, Local & Otherwise
8:45p
Open Fencing
Friday
8:30a – 9:00a
Warm Ups & Refreshments
9:00a – 12:00p
Petr Turya
The Foundation of Swordplay is In Wrestling
Ton Puey
Space, Body Position & Movement in De Rada’s Destreza
Devon Boorman
Two-Sword – From Forms to Combat
12:00p – 1:15p
Lunch & Lecture: The Acute Application of Aristotle in La Verdadera Destreza (Lois Spangler)
1:15p – 2:45p
Loreen Mattis
A Practical Approach to the Spear
John O’Meara
The Rapier: Guards in Motion
Mike Cherba
Khevsur Training Methods
3:00p – 4:30p
Mark Lancaster
It’s Just a Sword
Puck Curtis
Teaching Figgy’s Sword and Dagger
Da’mon Stith
Abyssinian Shotel
James Reilly
The Wrestling of Fabian von Auserwald
Jay Maas
Lecture: No True Scotsman
5:00p – 7:00p
Armoured Deed of Arms
8:15p
Open Fencing
Saturday
8:30a – 9:00a
Warm Ups & Refreshments
9:00a – 11:45a
Federico Malagutti
Crossing in Punta di Spada & the Exchange of Thrusts
John O’Meara
Using the Measures – All of Them
Christian Tobler
Long Shield & Sword Combat from Gladiatoria
11:45a – 12:45p
Lunch
12:45p – 2:30p
Christian Cameron
Vase Art to Froissart: Partisan, Rotella and Sidesword
Devon Boorman
Longsword vs Rapier
Marco Quarta
Capofitto: Italian Grappling
3:00p – 4:45p
Luke Ireland
Per La Vita: Abrazare Isn’t Just Wrestling
Ton Puey
A Century of Montante
Davis Vader
Taking the Low Road
Mike Cherba
Lecture: Georgia & Khevsurs
Christian Tobler
Halberd and Murder Axe
Da’mon Stith
Machete Fencing in the African Diaspora
Rob Rutherfoord
Punta to Punto
Devon Boormn
Lecture: Curriculum Development
Sunday
8:30a – 9:30a
Warm Ups & Refreshments
Greg Mele
The Sword is an Axe; But the Axe is a Sword
Devon Boorman
Provocation & Tactical Control
Marco Quarto
Italian Pugilato
Christian Tobler
Lecture: Maximillian I & the Kunst des Fechtens
12:15p – 1:45p
Lunch & Closing Comments
Petr Turya
From Messer to Dussack
Christian Cameron
Exploring Bondi di Mazzo
Ton Puey
Polearms in La Verdadera Destreza
Federico Malagutti
The Thrust – The Jewel of the Art
Puck Curtis & Eric Meyers
Figueiredo in Chains – Iberian Flail
Luke Ireland
The Old Grab N’ Stab
5:45p – 6:15p
Farewells