Friday Sept. 18th
8:00a – 9:30a
Welcome & Introductions
9:30a – 12:30p
Jesse Kulla
Just the Trip: Measure, Timing, and why medieval swordplay is based on wrestling
Da’Mon Stith
In the Shadow of the Shield: Shield Fighting in Ethiopia and the Horn of Africa
David Coblentz
From Action to Lesson: Johann Georg Pascha’s 1661 Rapier
Chris Last
Prepare to Receive Charge!
12:30p – 1:15p
Lunch
1:15p – 2:45p
Kurt Holtfreter
Dynamic Lanza: Developing Fluidity of action with the Queen of the Weapons
James Reilly
Meyer’s Halberd: Cut, thrust, hook and push
Devon Boorman
Two-Sword Fundamentals
Davis Vader & Max Faass
With Praise to Mars (aka SEND IT!)
Charles Lin
Lecture:
Lessons from Feldlager 2025
3:00p – 4:30p
Kyle Lazzarevich
Range Increments in Armor
Devon Boorman
Sword & Rotella in the Bolognese Tradition
John O’Meara
Be Terza Strong!
Marli Vlok
Historical Flag and Sword
Chris Last
Lecture:
Vested Interest in Civic Defense
4:30p – 6:15p
Armoured Deed of Arms
6:15p – 7:30p
Dinner
7:30p – 9:00p
James Reilly
Renaissance Wrestling – Focus on the technical wrestling system of Fabian Von Auerswald
Marli Vlok
Fencing at Night
Free
Fencing
(until 10pm)
Saturday Sept. 19th
8:00a – 9:30a
Warm Ups & Refreshments
9:30a – 12:30p
Da’Mon Stith
Roots of Power: Tigel Wrestling
Walker Skaggs
Special Event:
Clash of Arms: Field Exercises
Devon Boorman
The Deceptive Fight with Rapier Alone and Rapier & Dagger
Daniel Jacquet
Lecture:
(at 10:45 am)
Get Fit with Swedish Gymnastics!
12:30p – 1:30p
Lunch
1:30p – 3:30p
Bill Grandy
Armored Messer?
Jesse Kulla
“I Don’t Know What It’s Called, Just the Sound it Makes When It Takes a Man’s Life”
John O’Meara
Uniting Your Forces
Daniel Jacquet
Get Fit with Swedish Gymnastics (Practicum)
3:45p – 6:00p
Davis Vader
Take them Alive: Techniques & Scenarios For the Non-Lethal Uses of Fiore’s Armizare
Christian Tobler
Keeping it Simple: Messerfechten Before and After Lecküchner
Marli Vlok
Southern Italian Rapier and Dagger
Jesse Kulla
Lecture
Becomest Thou Most Tough, or Dost Thou Even Hoist?
6:00p – 7:00p
Dinner
7:15p – 7:45p
An Assault at Arms: After-dinner entertainment
Sunday Sept. 20th
8:00a – 9:30a
Warm Ups & Refreshments
Kurt Holtfreter
Inside to Outside Binding to Striking: Building Faster Responses within the Plays of the Sword
Charles Lin
Well, That Escalated Quickly: Social Violence in the Late Middle Ages
David Coblentz
Italian Beat Saber: From Radaelli to Gaugler
Special Event:
The Mini-Deed
12:30p – 1:30p
Lunch & Closing Comments
Christian Tobler
The Spear in Harness: Long and Short Spear Fighting in German Harnischfechten
James Reilly
Meyer’s Pike—Dueling with a weapon of war
Daniel Jacquet
The Flugelhau, the secret technique to win fencing bouts in the early sixteenth century
Chris Last
Give Fire!
Devon Boorman
Lecture:
The Business of Martial Arts
Kyle Lazzarevich
Developing Fuhlen / Stupid Games That Would be Easier to Play Without a Sword
Bill Grandy
The Flail in Combat
Daniel Jacquet
Lecture:
When printers messed up fight books: A short story of Early Modern failed bestsellers