Academy
of European Medieval Defensive Arts
(AEMDA- formerly MMAW)
AEMDA
is founded with the intention of practicing and teaching the martial
arts of medieval Europe for the purposes of education, interpretation
and preservation of these arts. We do not maintain that we are
recreating medieval fighting arts with total accuracy, but merely
approximating them to the best of our ability within a safe training
environment based on the current state of knowledge of these
arts. AEMDA
will be working primarily from the Italian
Tradition of fighting
methods as expressed in the writings of Fiore dei Liberi. His
writings
constitute the frame-work of a complete system of combat techniques;
AEMDA will be
primarily concerned with the following skills:
Abrazare (wrestling or grappling)
Daga, (Dagger - includes both the techniques with the dagger and
defenses against an opponent armed with a dagger)
Spada a un mano (one-handed sword)
Spada a dui mani (longsword)
It's fairly awkward to say, "We study the martial arts outlined in the
book 'Fiore De Battaglia' written in 1409." We have taken to
referring to the techniques outlined in the book by the name of the
book as a sort of shorthand, saying that "We study Fiore de
Battaglia." This is increasingly becoming viewed as a proper name
for the art, like 'Kenpo Karate' or 'Tai- kwon-do.'
NOV 8-9th 2008-
Weekend
seminar on Fior dei Battaglia with Bob Charon has been Cancelled.
Difficulties in securing an appropriate venue and other
financial concerns have made it necessary to cancel this seminar.
Rescheduling may be possible but there is nothing definate at
this time. Our apologies to all.
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