Boop le Snoot! Achille Marozzo work in the polearms class. #hema #learnswordfighting #poleaxe #davidrawlings #londonlongswordacademy

Vibe! Happy fun times at the Friday Longsword class. #hema #learmswordfighting #community #davidrawlings #londonlongswordacademy

With a bang not a whimper. No spoilers, an excellent day, which I am sure you will find out all about soon.😈⚔️😈 Image from wiktenauer.com #davidrawlings #londonlongswordacademy #learnswordfighting #community #hema

Watching people grow in confidence. One of the best things. #hema #learnswordfighting #community #davidrawlings #londonlongswordacademy

This beautiful space. Form work and warm up in the Crystal Palace class. Progressing the Achille Marozzo form, some Godinho. All in all awesome. #hema #learnswordfighting #community #davidrawlings #londonlongswordacademy

From a private lesson on the Montante Figueyredo and Godinho and the company of Winter. Facts about swords and spiders and trees, and of course tea. #hema #learnswordfighting #community #learnswordfighting #davidrawling

This month’s schedule. Short version. Swords, sticks, shields, sabres you name it, taught in a wildly fun and safe environment, with the loveliest people you could be stabbed by. #davidrawlings #hema #learnswordfighting #community #londonlongswordacademy

A good day. Sabre at Sword Saturday. Frias Verdadera Destreza. Paulus Hector Mair and Joachim Meyer. And rolling for the soul. #hema #londonlongswordacademy #davidrawlings #community #learnswordfighting

Achille Marozzo, but it’s never Marozzo, it’s Fiore dei Liberi, it’s Liechtenstauer through the eyes of Meyer, it’s Girard Thibault achieving the same against so many things. What did you say that meant the same thing? #leaarnswordfighting #community #londonlongswordacademy #davidrawlings #hema

Never gets old this feeling. #hema #learnswordfighting #community #davidrawlings #londonlongswordacademy

Sabre from Simon de Frias, Verdadera Destreza with descriptions that were pretty damned vulgar. Alongside that staff work from Paulus Hector Mair and Joachim Meyer, revising some old favourites to bring them up to date. #hema #learnswordfighting #community #davidrawlings #londonlongswordacademy

An excellent blend of staff and sabres in the mixed weapons class at Crystal Palace! Verdadera destreza sabre from Frias and a little George Silver thrown in. Staff from Paulus Hector Mair. #londonlongswordacademy #davidrawlings #community #hema #learnswordfighting

They are happy because they did the Tornada a few hundred years early. Vulgar and verdadera destreza meet in the I.33 sword and buckler class. Awesome fun. #hema #learnswordfighting #community #davidrawlings #londonlongswordacademy

Polearms at Sword Saturday. Paulus Hector Mair and working through a fiddly fiddly play. 97% there I reckon and dead proud of everyone. #hema #learnswordfighting #community #davidrawlings #londonlongswordacademy

I kind of loved this warm up. From the Bethnal Green Longsword class. At Sword Saturday. #hema #learnswordfighting #community #davidrawlings #londonlongswordacademy

When you do a little bit of Thibault Vs Longsword and now everyone wants to play. Girard Thibault once more krept into the verdadera destreza class. #hema #learnswordfighting #community #davidrawlings #londonlongswordacademy

Thibault in Two Continents. Canada and Germany my two latest outings, taking Gerard Thibault and his manner of verdadera destreza around the world. It’s been a lot of travelling but there is more to come. #hema #learnswordfighting #davidrawlings #girardthibault #londonlongswordacademy

Different exchanges, different outcomes. Today in the smallsword class was all about moving. Not rushing to win, moving at a pace that encourages exploration and constant exchanges. #hema #learnswordfighting #community #davidrawlings #londonlongswordacademy

Figueiredo Montante rule 23 skidoo, the guarding of a parking spot against a Prius. A great afternoon working the goats mr Fig and Godinho #hema #learnswordfighting #community #davidrawlings #londonlongsword

Suffice to say, day one was awesome. Godinho dos Espadas At Swords of the Renaissance. More in this soon. #hema #londonlongswordacademy #davidrawlings #learnswordfighting #community

It’s been an exciting year so far. Never really travelled much and I’m grateful to the people breaking me of that habit. And it seems to be bringing people happiness and understanding! Yay! #hema #community #learnswordfighting #davidrawlings #londonlongswordacademy

Let us talk about politeness. In my Girard Thibault workshop in Ottawa we went through several techniques including the movements of conclusion.

At the Ottawa Historical Fencing event in Canada, discussing what vulgar and verdadera destreza, Girard Thibault and George silver and others share. Happy days. #hema #learnswordfighting #community #davidrawlings #londonlongswordacademy

Boop upside! Paulus Hector Mair staff work in the Crystal Palace class. Working and reworking a couple of nuances to get the play sweet and smooth. #hema #londonlongswordacademy #davidrawlings #quaterstaff #learnswordfighting

Only some of us chose hot pants that night. This lot are getting better and better. From the Smallsword class. #hema #learnswordfighting #community #londonlongswordacademy #davidrawlings

Taking I.33 our oldest known fencing treatise (sword and buckler) to Canada, for reasons! #hema #fencing #learnswordfighting #davidrawlings #community

Annie I know the thought you put into these lessons while I am away. I don’t ask questions about them,because I know you will already have been critical of every detail yourself, my silence is appreciation and trust. #hema #learnswordfighting #community #vedaderadestreza #londonlongswordadacademy

Smallsword in the dying light. From the Wednesday class for that swordy. Swords in the fore by @hfarmory #hema #learnswordfighting #community #davidrawlings #londonlongswordacademy

Anonimo Bolognese, I.33 and a litttle bit of Mair, in the sword and buckler class, obviously 😁 #hema #learnswordfighting #community #davidrawlings #londonlongswordacademy

Another night of gay abandon and Smallsword shenanigans! #hema #learnswordfighting #community #londonlongswordacademy #davidrawlings