ARMA promotional video

The Association for Renaissance Martial arts is a club of individuals and study groups who study martial arts from Medieval and Renaissance Europe. The surviving historical manuals give images and lessons from which armed and unarmed combat can be reconstructed.

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• ARMA
• historical fencing
• sword fighting
• renaissance martial arts

[Gaddesreinhart]

I love ARMA. I love the fact that they promote and utterly shatter the notion that European Martial Arts are inferior to Eastern Martial Arts. Excellent stuff!

[ChristusVlCTOR]

I love the lady knitting at 3:08 as two men "fight to the death" in the ring.

[Zwerchhau]

(part 2) Their usage in Europe dates all the way back to the Viking and Anglo-Saxon periods with weapons like the Scrimeseax. For centuries BOTH straight and curved weapons were used alongside each other.

[Zwerchhau]

@tantorecords Europeans used both straight and curved bladed weapons. There are many manuals written on the usage of the Messer and the Dussack. The Falchion was common in the Italian peninsula and surrounding areas. There were even long two-handed single edged curved weapons. Look up "Kriegsmesser". The techniques for these weapons are not "older" and they are designed to be used the way the manuals show us they are. Curved cutting blades are not some sort of later development.

[mojothemigo]

@tantorecords Again, look up "dussack". I use Yahoo. Lots of different websites are all saying it was real, though it was a very geneneral stand in for messers or other chopping weapoms. Joachim Meyer's fechtbush of 1570 has details of it's use. It is probably a very regional thing to Germany, but very real. Again, I am not a swordsman but I am looking right at the evidence.

[tantorecords]

@mojothemigo In Europe? I understand that curved blades did eventually become popular in europe, but the techniques they were using were older and therefore don't fit with the blade.

[mojothemigo]

@tantorecords Hi again tanto. I think these WERE used in the late Renaissance and called dussacks. There are videos of noneARMA Renaissance groups of Germans using them. I have seen them in the old manuals here and there and they have a wikepedia article on them. Their article of the cutlass says it was developed from a 16th centery "coutelass" which they had when dussacks were used.

[tantorecords]

Im confused... are they european martial artists of the 15th century or pirates? Show me an image of a 15th century european fighting in europe with a cutlass or any curved sword for that matter and ill shut up... guarantee you wont find one though so quit arma and go join the sca.

[lamyunholic]

@Gaddesreinhart Sure is inferior complex here.

[CrimsonEmpire]

Respect for history and heritage

sincerity of effort

integrity of scholarship

appreciation of martial spirit

cultivation of self-discipline

........ and really awkward taste in music

[toothANDclaw13]

@jguzmanist actually, it's from A Perfect Circle's album EMOTIVE