About Us
Present
We’re an eclectic mix of people. Several countries are represented:
Denmark, Bulgaria, Russia, Iceland, Serbia and Greece so far. We’re a few more Mediterraneans short of a Risk-board.
We explore fencing from many angles. Like using odd Spanish footwork from the 1500s in Modern Fencing competitions or vice versa; applying high level strategy from Olympic Fencing to centuries old weapons. One of our instructors, Troels Christensen, has decades of Olympic Epee experience and brings that perspective to the Historical Rapier to great effect.
Victoria Chudinov, another instructor, doesn’t like garlic. She also has a suspisciously encyclopedic knowledge of several centuries of Renaissance fencing manuscripts. These two facts are supposedly unrelated.
We primarily do single Rapier, but often mix it up by adding a dagger, sabre drills and mixed weapon sparring.
Past
The International Rapier Seminar 2022
In August 2022 we organized and hosted the annual International Rapier Seminar.
Instructors
Aleix Vendrell
Kristine Konsmo
Steph Holt
Rob Childs
Mike Prendergast
Sam Bud
Lorenzo Braschi
George Zacharopolous
Emilia Skimuntt
You can see all the details of the event right here.
The International Rapier Seminar 2019
We have hosted the International Rapier Seminar, as arranged and organized by Victoria Chudinov. It was smashing. We had 7 instructors, each doing their own workshop. It ran over 3 days with over 40 participants from many countries.
Instructors
Ton Puey
Iacopo Lacoponi
Jay Maxwell
Victoria Chudinov (our very own)
Troels Rosted-Christensen (our very own)
Thibault Ghesquière
Rob Runacres
Reinver Van noort
Rob Runacres thanking Victoria for her work.
Future
We’re working to arrange international seminars in the near future and also to secure funding for these.