Signum Corvus HEMA Blog

Jun 22 min

Comrades in Arms: Gathering of the Blades 2024

One of the great things about going to a HEMA workshop event is getting new perspectives on things that you kinda know. Someone else’s...

May 66 min

Fencing Fast and Slow

In the mid 16th century Kamiizumi Nobutsuna had an idea. Rather than have his students injure each other in class when practicing at full...

Feb 233 min

The Scale of Prowess and Deeds of Arms – the Conflict between Sport and Historical Fencing

by Andriy Holuk Sport vs Tradition. Martial Artists love this debate. For HEMA, this discussion is even more nuanced given our primary...

Feb 162 min

Editorial: Trial by Combat

It is a given that Signum Corvus School of Arms is a martial arts school. I mean, it’s right in the name, isn’t it? But the question...

Nov 30, 20233 min

Tension

At the King’s Cup My heart is racing like overwound clockworks though I’m doing nothing but sitting in the nave of the church,...

Sep 21, 202310 min

DiGrassi's Style of Fencing

Giacomo DiGrassi wrote an influential fencing treatise and published it on March 6th 1570. It is one of very few fencing treatises...

Feb 26, 20234 min

Fencing with Frame Data: strengthening insight by drawing parallels with existing skills

How do you learn a new skill? How do you transform information into insight?Can you draw on outside experience to supercharge your learning?

Jan 22, 20236 min

Fencing Thoughts

Fencing Thoughts I have been doing fencing now for over a year and a half. I think I have trained solidly for 12 months during that time,...

Jan 7, 20233 min

Going back to the Source

Hello HEMA Scholars! This is Ian, longtime member of Signum Corvus and perpetual longsword novice. Have you ever finished a lesson or...