Mountain Axe at SCA Saxon Summer again this year.

I will be teaching a workshop on the mountain axe again this year at the local SCA event called Saxon Summer on September 12. I believe the event is being held in hubbard Ohio again this year but will post the address when I get it. Should be a good time. Last year it was [...]

Axe galore at the RV Weekend!

We got to play with all sorts of axes last weekend at the 5th annual Recreational Violence Weekend here in Northeast Ohio. Medieval pollaxes, tomahawks, entrenching tools and our beloved moutnain axe were all featured in classes this past weekend. Photo courtesy of Kirk Lawson The first axe class was on the use of the [...]

Mountain Axe at the Recreational Violence Weekend!

Recreational Violence Weekend V June 11-12 here in beautiful Northeast Ohio..we will have a variety of axe classes including a class Sunday on the mountain axe. I am picturing this as the most people ever swinging mountain axes in one place outside of the Carpathian mountains ever…or at least in a very long time. Should [...]

Mountain axe at Saxon Summer!

Well saturday I taught two classes at the local Northeast Ohio SCA groups event called Saxon Summer. I taught right after the heavy fighting. FIrst class…medival dagger and wrestling with a definite focus on wrestling in the manner put forth by Fiore Dei Liberi in his 1410 text. We discussed the 7 requirements for wrestling [...]

SCA event September 13th Hubbard Ohio

I will be teaching my reconstructed axe system for the first time at a local SCA event on Saturday September 13th in Hubbard Ohio. Not sure what sort of turnout we will get but as long as I have one person there swinging axes with me, I will be happy:) I will also be doing [...]