It covers all forms of combat within Europe prior to gun combat. Long sword, side sword, knife, armoured, rapier ect.
All masters/participates or anyone that has a general understanding of both Asian Martial Arts as well as European agrees that the European be superior. Although they share many similarities in technique the European goes further in the particular techniques as well as having more varying techniques for the varying weapons while in ASIA the weapons tended to not go beyond it's common style. Just simply because Asian martial arts got media attention through figures such as Bruce Lee which imprinted the Asian styles and techniques into the Western world.
And I'm not talking about those fat man child larpers that only know the most basic techniques. It's sad that most of you don't know the great European sword masters such as Liechtenauer or Liberi.
The Sword
It's about the philosophy, the idea of the sword as a moral expression and balancer of myself rather than any practical use.
Aren't you the same Aussie op who posted the "Beat up on LARPers and get stronk!" thread earlier today, lmao
Someone suggested HEMA and now you're totally hugecock about it
Christopher Peterson
HEMA is gay larping. Learn to shoot.
Ian Lee
Yeah, where do you think we're going to train? I'll just google my local sword smith and see if I can sign up online. It's 2019 faggot, learn how to shoot, learn jiu jitsu/wrestling, learn how to strike and stop sucking so many dicks.
>HEMA Nibba that shit is gayer than jewjitsu get a bat, a axe and a fucking gun.
Levi Hughes
**You're
Blake Edwards
For a number of years, I practiced taekwondo, aikido, shaolin kung fu, judo, kobudo, tai chi chuan (emphasis on push hands). I can adequately defend myself against most people. I feel no need to learn more fighting styles; I must perfect my body and technique.
Kayden Gutierrez
>Ren fair neckbeards and shitty footwork
No thanks
Levi Evans
For all the time you've done martial arts, you've done one good one. Take the dicks out of your mouth and go do a martial art that works
Wyatt Morales
But have you ever had to use it to defend yourself? I'm thirty, and I've never had anyone want to fight me, despite having a typical college/bar experience. I'm also 6'5, and wonder if that's related, maybe martial arts is really just manlet arts?
Ayden Johnson
Online of coarse best that I know is purple heart armoury.
To buy wooden go to Raven Studios or you could just go to Purple Heart again.
Nope wasn't me, I have not been doing HEMA too long but I have a natural talent for it since I have my chad sport abilities.
Why not both.
Yea learn how to shoot but not faggoty Asian martial arts, any one with any common sense agrees that the European equivalent is superior but was forgotten thanks to guns.
HEMA covers wrestling as well.
Aaron Williams
except you have no clue how to use the bat or axe.
Ayden Nguyen
nah thx bro, I'd rather just throw knives or buy a black powder gun
in fact I will probably buy a revolver and a rifle, then mount a 4x scope on it
Michael Walker
Carry a gun and play tennis instead. You might be called a fag less often. Fag.
Focus on the European Martial Arts, they are superior and more advanced as well as more variety but a lot of the renaissance/medieval books on the European Martial Arts are written in a poetic code so only initiates understand it, this is why you need to learn the basics first which you have so I would recommend learning these.
Jack Thompson
no HEMA's fault that man childs can't fight properly
Jason Wilson
>So why the don't you HEMA fight? The same reason I don't practice drills with my fucking matchlock rifle. It's outdated, and frankly useless. If I wanted to kill someone, or defend myself and others, there are way better options than using -literal medieval shit- in the year of our lord 2019. >not an aryan if you dont x No true scotsman, read the fucking sticky
Jonathan Sanders
You're one of those fat bearded greasy rejects with bad skin wearing black who thinks he's killing it going to his little knights of the round table larp every week. Aryans, especially Aussies fuckin surf, box and drink beer, you are a massive loser, fuck off.
I also do play tennis albeit less often than I used to but still I play it so maybe you should learn how to fight, the manly way.
Your pic shows you have some sort of dominatrix fetish. Get over your masturbation and you may be called a man.
Christopher Nelson
I did Kendo is that close enough?
Dominic Reyes
Thanks m8 will check it out
Mason Bell
fuarrk you australians are mean you all need some dick and Jesus to cheer you up
Jackson Morales
>any one with common sense can see! >any one who agrees with me!
You're a larping faggot. It doesn't matter what it's called or where it came from, the technique is all that matters. We don't need to fight with swords anymore we need effective techniques to better our mind and body through physical combat. And sure catch as catch can is a fine martial art, big fucking deal
Elijah Russell
By the way: The commie kids do HEMA too and they will KVEEEEEEEEEETCH so hard if/when they find out this topic is being discussed on Jow Forums. You see this shit all the time on social media
>"I do HEMA to bash the fash! Tee hee!" And it's always the worst fighters.
Joseph Collins
You're not fighting anyone faggot. You're in gym, wearing protective gear with a bunch of doughy larping sword fags. The reason you're kicking ass is because you're probably the only one that isn't a fat Hobbit lover in there. I'd have more respect for you if you played Aussie rules. Even that has been pussified over the last 20 years.
Nolan Turner
I would see pagancucks practice this larp fucking kek
Ian Diaz
As I said prior I will quote it
"The Sword
It's about the philosophy, the idea of the sword as a moral expression and balancer of myself rather than any practical use"
Although it does have a practical use since it's not just swords it is also wrestling and a bare hands punching fight. HEMA covers all forms of European Martial Arts it's just the sword fighting one happens to be the most popular.
Robert James
A modern boxer with 6 months experience can beat a faggot who studies HEMA for any amount of time unarmed 100% of the time
Noah Johnson
because Krav Maga is a superior martial art style and should be adopted all over Europe
Hudson Lopez
>A surfing fag
"Oh YeE BrUy iS t he Leeelections in MuH wAtOR"
Get a life beyond standing on a board. Body surfing is for the real Aussie men when they go to the beach.
Real Aryans learn self defence (HEMA) and they can also learn the sword fighting aspect of it if they wish which for me has a philosophical element to it rather than any practical use I only use the unarmed HEMA in real situations.
And yea I do also box you massive larping faggot as well as drink bear, phh you probably drink hops bear onions boy.
Jeremiah Wood
I've watched actual faggot porn that wasnt as gay than this.
Brody White
or I can buy these, drink half a liter of vodka, fuck your sister and then throw 2 of them into your belly and 1 into your face while you swing around your bastard sword
still I guess you can duel some kangaroos or emus with your HAMA shit, should work against them (protip from HAMA master - aim against Emu neck)
I used to be a professional soldier. There is a critical need for discipline and martial skills. That said, maybe you should focus on something more useful like modern firearms, marksmanship and close combat. Sword play is a hobby unless you want to talk about the rules of sword play or fencing that Otto played by during that era.
Jaxson Hill
close enough but it doesn't rival European Martial Arts, it only seems to thanks to it's popularity.
Should indeed, even just practising the strokes and movements of the swords is fun and calming almost as a meditation for myself that is if you make it that.
I already have Jesus.
HEMA covers as I fucking said before all forms of fighting including unarmed as does the Asian style but HEMA goes beyond them so I would rather learn a superior style you Weab larper. And as I have said using the sword aspect of HEMA is more of a meditation and philosophical reasoning for myself rather than any practical use besides it is still advancing the body we must to some extent connect with these essential expressions of the human body and mind which have been forgotten for so long.
> we need effective techniques to better our mind and body through physical combat.
what do you think fighting with swords is? Besides I have said before my point about this.
Yea cause they don't do proper fucking HEMA they are just fake autists, imagine the irony of a 6 ft 4 Nordic chad bashing a communist pig with HEMA at his own sport.
>You're not fighting anyone faggot. You're in gym, wearing protective gear with a bunch of doughy larping sword fags
I don't always wear protective gear I have gotten many cuts and bruises over the years.
>The reason you're kicking ass is because you're probably the only one that isn't a fat Hobbit lover in there
True but that's only when I go to a gym most of the time I do it for fun and meditations with my other chad friends.
> I'd have more respect for you if you played Aussie rules. Even that has been pussified over the last 20 years.
I still play (but less) Rugby.
Liam Campbell
That's because boxing is much more straight forward and doesn't require as much technique besides I am pretty sure boxing is included in HEMA because it was a Western fighting style. HEMA has an array of fighting style mixed together like an ultimate MMA it's just most only study the sword aspect which is disappointing. Any how HEMA is punching, tripping, tackling it's anything of a design by Westerners within a fight but the majority of it has been forgotten although I have learnt it partially and can beat most boxers.
Krav Maga is inferior.
Well you sure are an edgy fella, Did you even read my points about the philosophical element to it?
I agree and do use guns but my unarmed combat comes from mainly HEMA and a bit from a few ASIAN styles. Still though the sword represents something within us of honour and strength as well as skill beyond unarmed combat it has no practical purpose any more but the philosophical purpose as well as bodily purpose remain.
Henry Garcia
::Teleports behind::
Interesting style and blade, but can it withstand Hiten mitsurugi ryu?
Shitposting aside, I've been looking into this. A school near me offers a free first session I may check out.
Tyler Cruz
t. normie
Shouldn't you be on instagram or whatever, you pleb?
Brayden Lee
How come no one punches the other guy while in a sword lock?
Colton Martinez
Why the fuck would you waste your time with useless shit like that If you are some kind of ultra larper, i can understand that Everything else is just pure waste of time. Go to some BJJ or MMA if you want to learn anything useful, hema is just full of fat neckbearded beta males that hide their fat in replica of 15th century armor
Jaxson Sanders
They keep leaning backwards when one is pushing them and then lose footing?
Jace Harris
>ultra larper >suggests BJJ instead Get a load of this fucking larper. Has there been a more useless martial art than BJJ?
Ian Jackson
>hema Thats not how you spell virgin
Hudson Lee
I would recommend trying it although don't be surprised if they fuck it up. I have beaten almost everyone I have versed in a battle of long swords except for a few master kendo fighters in Asia but apart from the masters kendo acts more like a rapier duel than the normal sword duel as HEMA works.
Lincoln Morgan
LMAO at learning an outdated medieval martial art when you could be using a proper sabre and learning an actual competitive fencing to fuck random pussy and niggers up You literally get approached by chicks while on the way to fencing club when you carry around your sabre or rapier, while you're going to get ridiculed if you walk around with a sword
I won't lie, i trained fencing for close to 2 years because the girls there were slim and had the best assess plus they were easy to approach. I chose the sabre simply because it was the least gay (never told anyone there that's the reason though).
Michael Nguyen
They can it's just if he did that he would lose strength in his sword and give the other guy room to cut but grappling is most definitely a thing in HEMA it's just a punch on usually only occurs after the swords have been totally grappled by each other or thrown away.
Ian Garcia
I create my own MMA with a mix between HEMA styles, Asian styles as well as Boxing.
Aiden Mitchell
Wtf are you on about? BJJ is like 1 out of 3-5 martial arts that you can do something with i agree it's useless in street brawl with multiple people included, but its prob easiest to pick up quick and dominate guys who know shit about fighting on ground
when will you ever have a sword on you m8
Ryan Gomez
They are just bad.
jealousy of my supreme HEMA skills I see
The sabre/ rapier is a good choice in fencing but it has been dying out slowly. If you need a special place to pick up women then you are pathetic just walk in there and ask you don't have to do it to ask them.
Besides that rapier style is from HEMA you autist and is "out dated" by your description, I enjoy both rapier fencing as well as long sword fencing.
Matthew Martinez
>when will you ever have a sword on you m8
How many times must I say this HEMA is not just sword fighting it is all forms of European Martial Arts and that includes bare handed.
Besides I do the sword fighting for philosophical and meditative reasons as well as just for fun, while I do the unarmed techniques for self defence.
Andrew Ross
>Besides I do the sword fighting for philosophical and meditative reasons as well as just for fun, ok i can respect that. i did similar with archery, went couple of times to pick up technique, felt relaxing >while I do the unarmed techniques for self defence this on the other hand is kind of questionable for me. i'd rather go to mma or some shit like that
Daniel Barnes
Look how easily the Western sabre beats the pathetic Katana.
>Fencing Gay. The only true combat art is the one which uses every advantage. That means guns, that means shotguns, that means pistols, and that means, as a last resort, knives / mixed martial arts.
So what you become a master of the fucking zweihander, and then what? You get shot by the first motherfucker who has a gun at 20 yards, because you are an idiot running around trying to sword fight people.
Stupid as fuck.
Easton Gutierrez
>If you need a special place to pick up women then you are pathetic just walk in there and ask you don't have to do it to ask them.
That's the most autistic thing I read here today. Just imagine some random guy going into a fencing club and asking bitches out. I'd try to beat someone like that up if he doesn't leave immediately.
Jaxson Flores
>ok i can respect that. i did similar with archery, went couple of times to pick up technique, felt relaxing
Yea I enjoy the necessity for the correct movement rather than just blindly swinging it around. The different attack types as well as the blocks it feels like a well rhymed dance while doing it with others while doing by oneself it feels like meditation. I tried archery a few times and really enjoyed it but I always wanted to keep doing it but never got around. Would you recommend I start archery?
>this on the other hand is kind of questionable for me. i'd rather go to mma or some shit like that
Fair enough but MMA is mixed martial arts so usually it's a mix of Asian styles while HEMA is all European styles but the unarmed ones have mostly been forgotten while they equal to many Asian ones. The most modern HEMA style would just be boxing.
I do also find some meditative comfort in unarmed HEMA and really all defence styles (except boxing that is purely self defence for me, I couldn't find any meditative relief in it) but mostly in the use of a sword.
Brandon Roberts
>LARPing that you are in the Medieval age >Posts pic and videos of useless fucking swords At least LARP with spears and maces lmao.
John Peterson
Wow you pulled a trigger besides I have given ample reason as to why I like sword fighting for it is not just practical reasons it also has meditative qualities. Although sword fighting does train the body as well as heighten reflex time. I also do use guns any way (not many) but I have used them.
Chase White
Or just learn how to use a gun and your body for CQC. Such a fucking waste of time to play around with swords
Logan White
Yes but not as popular just search up a spear fight in HEMA they virtually use all weapons in a fight that were used in Europe (and western world) from the medieval period to today (except for guns)
Owen Morris
That's why I mix all of them myself.
Andrew Cruz
no one expects to use a sword in a real fight you autist, it's not the same as going to a gun ranch and learning how to use a gun.
Nathan Scott
Yea like you could be a chad up with a bit of twine.
I mean I would do fencing because I enjoy some aspect of it and I would also be more encouraged to do it as picking up women is easier but doing it just for that soul purpose is a little sad user, just go to a fucking pub seriously. 10/10 girls never do fencing perhaps a few qt's but not 10/10 you pick them up in general life.
Anthony Edwards
>watched a video about how spears are better than swords
Brandon Walker
HEMA is not just swords you autist besides you might as well say that any sport is a waste of time or meditations are a waste of time.
Adrian Russell
>That is why I mix completely useless weapons in with my useful ones. K. >No one expects to use a sword in a real fight Then why do it?
Weapons training is, and always has been for people who actually need to use it, training in something you would never actually use is pointless.
Michael Green
Seems like a cool hobby, but I train MMA already and I don't EDC a sword.
Yet...
Henry Wood
>krav maga is inferior lel insofar as an unarmed martial art goes, krav maga is one of the best out there hands down. if you need more than that carry a gun. that said swords are a important historical feature in European culture and every white man should own one and at least know how to strike with it should the need arise.
HEMA is not just swords you retard, you don't even know the basics.
>Then why do it?
Weapons training is, and always has been for people who actually need to use it, training in something you would never actually use is pointless.
A soccer ball could be a weapon if I continuously bash your head in with it the point is that it's a sport now. Besides it is both a sport and mediation to me. But that is only the sword aspect I train the unarmed combat as well for self defence. Learn what it is first before you criticise.
I have trained a wide variety of styles in unarmed but only recently got into armed HEMA for the most part I was just learning boxing, a few Asian styles and unarmed HEMA but I have started to sword fighting in HEMA and trust me it is worth it.
Indeed but not learn how to strike it for any practical use but for meditations and sport.
The unarmed aspect to HEMA is superior to Krav maga.
Thanks bro but that better be an all out "I'm going to try to hit you as hard as I can" combat sport.
Hudson Bennett
eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeh not sold on that. HEMA not bad, but idk about the direct comparison
Josiah Turner
>I watched a couple hundred hours of videos online about Hema and now I’m an expert
Isaac Gomez
Why would i ever touch a sword? i have guns, there is a reason you see the military training people with the longsword. its obsolete
Jack Rivera
Fair enough but I think the primary problem with HEMA is the difficulty in getting into it since the greatest works are written in medieval/renaissance period and styles. So there isn't exactly a master teaching a skill as the Asian styles have.
Liam Kelly
I participate with friends occasionally.
Ethan Lopez
Did you even read all of my comments and points about why I sword fight?
Grayson Peterson
So you’re only an Aryan “occasionally” then?
Jose Bailey
No i didn't, there is literally no reason to larp sword fighting unless it's just for fun, it's not going to save you. you can work out and learn to use a gun, and be better off than some idiot playing with a mace
Alexander Roberts
Would this be a good organization to learn fencing? I want to take up fencing or judo for competitive sport reasons but its hard to find anywhere that does that.
Brody Powell
Said no one ever
Colton Peterson
Pull your head out of your ass gayboi nobody is impressed you sword fight. Go to the nearest available blue board and make threads about it if you want to jerk yourself off so much.
Blake Scott
No I never said only while participating in the act of HEMA are you an Aryan I meant only while honing your body with HEMA are you an Aryan in physique. Besides I go to gyms occasionally but they are usually man childs. I am the best HEMA fighter I have met though.
Chase Scott
I sword fight for FUN as well as for it's meditative and philosophical elements.
David Young
Go to a Uni fencing club (you don't have to be apart of the uni).
Zachary Smith
buuuuuuuuuuuuuuurn
Look faggot I was stating the necessity of the improvement of the physique and mind as well as their connection which can be strengthened through pain.
Henry Harris
Nah, you were jerking yourself off about how you watch sword fighting videos on youtube alot. Which is pathetic to begin with, and pointless to boot.
Go buy a real weapon and learn to shoot. Oh, wait, right you live in Australia, a nation of soft cunts who gave up their rights because of one shooting.
Zachary Howard
>Nah, you were jerking yourself off about how you watch sword fighting videos on youtube alot. >Which is pathetic to begin with, and pointless to boot.
I regularly fight with the sword as a sport as well as play rugby, do some Asian styles as well as boxing. I also know how to use guns.
You are just a pathetic vermin who cannot rely on his own skill for he has none.
Jonathan Turner
Thanks bro, just found a fencing club near me. Cant wait to start. There is hema near me also but Ive always wanted to try fencing.
Xavier Howard
The HEMA Discord is actually pretty damn good for talking to people who practice. People are verified with photo and are flaired with their location. Google it for the invite.
Landon James
What about my Not an Aryan? Do you have it?
Daniel Mitchell
Try fencing first but HEMA is different in the fighting it doesn't focus specifically on rapiers and the jab and stab style. HEMA is all sword techniques but mainly (since most swords are designed like this) side cuts not cuts with the point of the sword.
Good luck bro
Mason Brooks
No an Aryan
Evan Wood
there are plenty of white sports: fencing, golf, sailing, racquetball/squash, skiing/snowboarding, tennis, hunting/shooting, hiking, etc.
Cameron Nelson
Of coarse my point was just to train the body and sword fighting happens to use pain to do that so it is different to most sports.
Luke Hughes
the fuck do you do if you're a 56 percent-er?
Justin Ortiz
They're not actively trying to hammer the other person for some reason... no kicks