Here we have collected useful links under the following categories:
Forums and organizations
Clubs outside Sweden
Facebook
Instagram
Youtube
Dropbox
Manuals, techniques and other reading material
Equipment and swords
Forums and organizations
Svenska Budo & Kampsportsförbundet
Svenska HEMA-Förbundet – our federation
Esfinges – international women’s HEMA network
HROARR – database for HEMA
Wiktenauer – an ongoing collaboration between researchers and practitioners within HEMA
Clubs outside Sweden
Historiallisen miekkailun seura EHMS (Helsinki in Finland)
Fekteklubben Frie Duellister (Oslo, Jessheim, Bergen och Tromsø in Norway)
Halden HEMA (Halden in Norway)
Talk to your coach or someone from the board if you have tips on relevant links here.
Svensk HEMA – independent Facebook group
Valborg – a group for Swedish and Swedish-speaking HEMA practitioners with female experiences
MHFS.s kvinnor, transpersoner, icke-binära + – a group in MHFS for women, transgender, non-binary and all others who do not see themselves as cismen
MHFS Sabel – a group for discussion of saber in MHFS
MHFS Montante & Jogo do Pau – a group for discussion of Montante and Jogo do Pau in MHFS
Talk to your coach or someone from the board if you have tips on relevant links here.
swedenmhfs – MHFS club account
Youtube
Talk to your coach or someone from the board if you have tips on relevant links here.
Akademia Szermierzy – historical fencing and storytelling from a HEMA club in Poland
Sarimner Historical european martial arts – fencing with the main focus on one handed swords
Schildwache Potsdam – instructional videos from a HEMA club in Germany
Schola Gladiatoria – fencing, military history, sword reviews and more
Tempus Fugitives – elizabethan swordsmanship in London
The Dagger Symposium – a podcast about daggers in the context of HEMA
Virtual Fechtschule – fencing with the langes messer
Manuals, techniques and other reading material
- Instruktioner i sabelfäktning till fots
- Mairs oillustrerade dolkkapitel
- Neue kunstliche fechtbuch
- Den så kallade Tjockisdolk-manualen
- Orustad fäktning från ms3227a
- Ringeck Faksimil 1.1
- Att fäktas med långsvärd på latin
- Teaching Every Body
- Challenges for women and minority genders
- Sammanfattning av Kvinnor och träning
- Sammanfattning av Träningslärans grunder
- Sammanfattning av Träna ryggen
- Sammanfattning av Knäkontroll – en väg till skadefri idrott
Club books
As a paying member you can borrow these books – send a question to info@mhfs.se
The Art of Combat: A German Martial Arts Treatise of 1570 Joachim Meyer ISBN: 9781848327788
Medieval Combat: A Fifteenth-Century Illustrated Manual of Swordfighting and Close-Quarter Combat Hans Talhoffer & Mark Rector
ISBN: 1853674184
The Art of Swordsmanship by Hans Lecküchner (Armour and Weapons)Translated by Jeffrey L. Forgeng
ISBN: 9781783272914
Ridolfo Capoferro’s The Art and Practice of Fencing: A Practical Translation for the Modern Swordsman Tom Leoni
ISBN: 9780982591192
The Medieval Art of Swordsmanship: Royal Armouries MS I.33
ISBN: 9780948092855
Instruktion i sabelfäktning till fots Nordenskjöld
ISBN: N/A
Broadsword and Singlestick: With Chapters on Quarter-staff, Bayonet, Cudgel, Shillalah, Walking-stick, Umbrella, and Other Weapons of Self-defense R. Allanson-Winn & C. Phillips-Wolley
ISBN: 9781581605129
Theory and Practice of La Verdadera Destreza Alberto Bomprezzi
ISBN: 9788409175277
Lannaireachd: Gaelic Swordsmanship Christopher Thompson
ISBN: 1591092361
The Duel, or the Flower of Arms for Single Combat, Both Offensive and Defensive Achille Marozzo
ISBN: N/A
The Flower of Battle: MS Ludwig XV13
ISBN: 9780984771691
Sigmund Ringeck’s Knightly Arts Of Combat: Sword and Buckler Fighting, Wrestling, and Fighting in Armor David Lindholm & Peter Svärd
ISBN: 9781581604993
Codex Wallerstein: A Medieval Fighting Book from the Fifteenth Century on the Longsword, Falchion, Dagger, and Wrestling Grzegorz Źabiński & Bartłomiej Walczak
ISBN: 1581603398
The Medieval Art of Swordsmanship: A Facsimile & Translation of Europe’s Oldest Personal Combat Treatise, Royal Armouries MS I.33 Paul Wagner & Stephen Hand
ISBN: 1891448382
English Swordsmanship: The True Fight of George Silver Stephen Hand
ISBN: 1891448277
Foundational description of the art of fencing: Reference edition – volume 1 – translation Joachim Meyer
ISBN: 9781953683311
Foundational description of the art of fencing: Reference edition – volume 2 – illustrations Joachim Meyer
ISBN: 9781953683335
Rörlighet – träning för bättre prestation Mats Mejdevi
ISBN: 9789187745935
Träna snabbhet och explosivitet Mattias Sunneborn
ISBN: 9789187745034
Skador & sjukdomar – akut omhändertagande inom idrotten Eva Andersson & Kristjan Oddsson
ISBN: 9789187745621
Träna ryggen Tomas Lihagen
ISBN: 9789186323639
Träningslärans grunder – träna effektivare Tobias Elgh
ISBN: 9789187745652
Knäkontroll – en väg till skadefri idrott Anette von Porat
ISBN: 9789186323615
Kvinnor & träning Lisbeth Wikström & Anna Nordström
ISBN: 9789177270072
Instruktioner i sabelfäktning till fots Tillskriven Vicktor Balck
Equipment and swords
Before ordering equipment or weapons, talk to your coatch.
Equipment
- Allstar (Germany)
- Faits D’armes (France)
- Leon Paul (UK)
- PBT (Germany)
- Red Dragon (UK)
- Sparring Gloves (Poland)
- Spes (Poland)
Sword – recommended for training and sparring
- Regenyei (Hungary)
- Sigi (Slovakia)
- Kvetun Armoury (Georgia)
- Ensifer (Poland)
- Black Fencer (Spain)
Sword – other
- Albion (USA)
- Arms & Armor (USA)
- Elgur (Czech Republic)
- Pavel Moc (Czech Republic)
- Viktor Berbekucz (Hungary)
Other equipment
- The Hema Shop (UK)
- The Knight Shop (UK)