{"id":107,"date":"2023-05-03T14:11:39","date_gmt":"2023-05-03T14:11:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spiffaktning.se\/?page_id=107"},"modified":"2023-05-03T18:54:44","modified_gmt":"2023-05-03T18:54:44","slug":"about-hema","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/spiffaktning.se\/index.php\/about-hema\/","title":{"rendered":"About HEMA"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">HEMA is a term that covers a lot of different disciplines. &nbsp; The general rule of thumb&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8220;historical&#8221; means any martial art originating before 1950.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cmartial art\u201d must have a living tradition or preserved source material.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Today we have access to hundreds of different manuals written by different fencing masters.&nbsp; They describe combat with a variety of weapons both on foot and on horseback, as well as unarmed combat, both with and without armor. These manuals cover a period of about 660 years, from about 1290 \u2013 1950. HEMA practice includes a number of different elements, including technique training with a wooden, nylon or metal weapon simulator, full-contact sparring with a steel simulator and protection, and test slashing with sharp weapons.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The main ones that we have people practicing are the following:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Rapier,&nbsp;<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Rapier &amp; Dagger,&nbsp;<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Rapier &amp; Cloak,&nbsp;<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Small Sword,<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Side sword&nbsp;<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Case,&nbsp;<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Longsword<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Sword &amp; Buckler<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Sabre<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Messer<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Dagger<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Great Sword<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Poleaxe<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>This is not an exhaustive list! If you have a pair of a particular type of sword and the skill\/interest to teach people as well as references to manuals for them to study, you will find people to \u201cplay\u201d with!<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Regular classes are only held for rapier, longsword, sabre and poleaxe.\u00a0 Workshops are organized semi regularly on request in other disciplines.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">We spar in a duel format (ie one on one) with the aim to land hits on our opponents. &nbsp; We don\u2019t hit to hurt but to land a hit &#8211; this does not mean you won\u2019t get some bruising even with protective gear.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">For Longsword\/Feder we lean towards the German traditions, for Rapier the Italian traditions and for Sabre the Swedish traditions.&nbsp; This does not mean we are purists- many persons explore and borrow from multiple traditions when sparring.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>HEMA is a term that covers a lot of different disciplines. &nbsp; The general rule of thumb&nbsp; &#8220;historical&#8221; means any martial art originating before 1950.&nbsp; \u201cmartial art\u201d must have a living tradition or preserved source material.&nbsp; Today we have access to hundreds of different manuals written by different fencing masters.&nbsp; They describe combat with a variety of weapons both on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-107","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiffaktning.se\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/107","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiffaktning.se\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiffaktning.se\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiffaktning.se\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiffaktning.se\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=107"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/spiffaktning.se\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/107\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":203,"href":"https:\/\/spiffaktning.se\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/107\/revisions\/203"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiffaktning.se\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=107"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}