Est. 2016
News Updates
March 27th:
Our next Instructor. Introducing
Tommy Joe Moore
With
“The Prizefighter’s Answer to the Club - A tale of cuffs and cudgels"
Donald McBane fought in wars, duels, tavern brawls, and prize rings across Europe. In his world, if a man came at you with a cudgel, you either learned to deal with it… or you didn’t live long enough to write a fencing manual.
This workshop explores practical historical methods for surviving stick and club attacks when you are unarmed. Drawing inspiration from the brutal prize-fighting culture of Donald McBane’s era, we examine how pugilism, distance management, and grappling can be used to close safely against a weapon and end the fight quickly.
Tommy can often be found teaching a variety of martial arts, from pugilism to WW2 Combatives. With a background in Judo, Muay Thai, Eskrima, Savage and Reality Based Self-defence, Tommy has published books on Bartistu, WW2 Combatives and Boxing.
March 20th:
Tickets are now live, be quick while the Early Bird special lasts
March 13th:
Introducing our first instructor for the 2026 Event
With
"Je ne sais quoi"
Starting with "He told me he had two comerads that were Frenchmen that knew me not, they would give me nothing unless I would fight all three, I told them I would have a fair trial for it (...) and wounded them all three", we will look at four treatises: Liancour, McBane, Hope, and Hope, to find out, what it is, the Scots do better than the French?
This is a comparison of McBane's Smallsword to other contemporaries.
Smallswords will be provided if you don't have one and a limited amount of masks and gloves.
