Historical European Martial Arts (H.E.M.A.) has been developed over 700-800 years ago. But it has been forgotten about for around the past half millennium. This form of martial arts is only coming back again since the last couple of decades.
Thanks to new discoveries and archives becoming available again we finally are able to teach ourselves the ‘old ways’ of the martial arts.
There are different traditions of European Martial Arts like German, Italian, English, French and Spanish. With the first two being the de facto standard, measuring a timespan from ca. 1300 to 1800.
But after several centuries is H.E.M.A. back in action. There is a lot of attention for it world-wide. Now, there aren’t tens of thousands practising it, but there sure enough that do. Besides that, there are various events and tournaments going on as well. Both exercising and studying the sport is important. By studying the transscripts we are able to better exercise the sport.