Nebraska Swordfighters Guild
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2023 – Fantasy, Folklore, and Fighting [Practice]
It’s that Time Again! Time for the guild to hone its martial art for public display. We will be hosting a table at the local fantasy convention ConStellation, along with 2 event showing of our art. Saturday, April 22nd, at 3-4 pm, we will be doing our ever popular “Wheel of Mortality”, where we used…
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2023 – Under Duress, No More
Today we’re going to learn a lot of things, but first and foremost; we must learn to fall. Joseph Loder [ paraphrased] One may get worried if the first thing in a class about defense is to fall, but not our crew. Joe explained that to do some of the later offensive techniques, we must…
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2023 – Under Duress: A survey of medieval close combat techniques in the Italian tradition.
This course is designed to be an accessible, full day course covering a simplified body of techniques from Fiore dei Liberi’s Flor Di Bataglia. Starting from grappling and then bridging to use of the dagger and longsword by themselves, then concluding with transitioning from one weapon to the next in giocco stretto or ‘close play’.…
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2022 – Arms, Abrazare, and old Acquaintances
Learning is not just for the students in our guild; our instructors recently took the opportunity to visit our parent school, Fortezza Fitness, home of the Chicago Swordplay Guild. They went to learn ( and review ) the basics for Abrazare. Abrazare is a body of techniques for throwing, falling, and tumbling that Fiore’s taught…
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2022 – Streets Alive Festival
Over the wind, and the music, You can hear the boisterous laughter of Marty, as he and Brad spar in the afternoon sun. Today we hosted a stand at “Streets Alive”, a local community street festival that encourages a healthy lifestyle. The event took over a large 24 block area, of which we were gratefully…
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2022 – Lincoln’s Party at the Park
Hot, Fun, and Exhausting; what more could you want from a Demo? All-in-all the Party in the Park demonstration went well. We had three opportunities to demonstrate Fiore’s art over the course of the 4-hour event. During which we showed the basics of Longsword, Dagger, and unarmed combat that we learn in the guild. It…
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2022 – Cornhusker State Games
Another year, another great Cornhusker state games weekend. This year we had 5 participants in the games, Nick Royal, Jake Frederick, Jordan Scribner, Joe Loder, and Daniel Cadenbach. Nick and Jake started the weekend with Beginner Longsword on Friday night. Joe, Jordan, and Daniel followed up on Saturday with the steel Longsword Event, and Nick…
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After the Cornhusker State Games 2019
Joe: It’s been a few days since the ending of the HEMA tournaments this past weekend and I wanted to say that wins, losses, and medals aside I’m very proud of the way NESG performed this year. I spoke with some of the other clubs that were there and they had nothing but nice things…
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Fact-checking fight-books: comparing historic injury patterns to strikes in modern European sword arts
Joe: Very interesting summary of a research paper I want to read fully. [Editors Note: Page is no longer available, using Wayback machine Archive, which may be removed anytime]: https://web.archive.org/web/20191222014850/http://www.tameshigiri.ca/2014/06/12/fact-checking-fight-books-comparing-historic-injury-patterns-to-strikes-in-modern-european-sword-arts/ Original PDF referenced in that page: https://ore.exeter.ac.uk/repository/bitstream/handle/10036/3729/MatzkeJ.pdf?sequence=2
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Part Two of the series written by CSG Dean, Greg Mele with video segments by Guild Provost, Jesse Kulla and the IAS Co-Founder, Sean W. Hayes