Mordhau Historical Combat

Thank you Phoenix Fan Fusion for letting us come do some sword fighting! We had a blast ⚔️❤️

Our next 6 week course is starting up on May 28th! Registration is open on our website but capacity is limited! ⚔️

Mordhau Historical Combat Sword fighting, Historical European Martial Arts, in Mesa. We teach longsword, sword & shield, polearms, ringen, dagger, and more! First class is free!

The first session for our new 6-week beginner’s course is starting next week! It’s already full, but not to worry, we’ve just opened enrollment for the next session. Will you be joining us? ⚔️

Enrollment and course details can be found on our website (link in comments).

We hosted a local sword and buckler tournament yesterday! Congrats to our medalists, and thank you to everyone who participated and volunteered! We’re already making plans for the next one ⚔️

Big congrats to our own John D. for his silver medal in the jian category at the Phoenix Wushu Nationals! We have collaborated with the Chinese martial arts community in Arizona and were very grateful to be invited to enter some of our students into their tournament over the weekend.

Also congrats to our friends at Ironwood Historical Swordsmanship for their gold and bronze finishes! ⚔️🌵

Our team went to SoCal Swordfight and returned victorious! Everyone fought marvelously and conducted themselves gracefully. We even came home with some new cookies!

Total medal count: 7

Isaac B. - Gold, U18 Longsword & IVth U18 singlestick, U18 rapier, U18 cutting
Kari B. - Silver URG Rapier & Dagger
Alberto Z. - Bronze Tier B Arming Sword Cutting
Brittany- Silver, URG Sabre

We had the pleasure to host Boxer's Rebellion Martial Arts to show us how they use the jian in a modern competitive setting. We love cross-cultural sword seminars and are happy to strengthen the ties between all sword arts.

Double bronze this weekend! Tony wins bronze in advanced longsword and Ramon wins bronze in open messer! ⚔️🥳

Ramon and Tony are competing at Salt Lake Open this weekend in messer and advanced longsword! Wish them luck! ⚔️

MordMiniV is complete! big thanks to everyone who came out to fight and spectate, we had a blast today! Final results:

1st - Robert Placencia, Ironwood Historical Swordsmanship
2nd - Tony Julin, Mordhau Historical Combat
3rd - Ramon Diaz, Mordhau Historical Combat
4th - Leanna Beauchamp, Ironwood Historical Swordsmanship

We are ready to host our MordMini V - Open Steel Longsword tournament tomorrow! Spectators are welcome. Our crafty students 3D printed this killer looking medals for our top 3 competitors! ⚔️🏅

Representing Mordhau and making her debut as a guest lecturer for AGO next weekend, Kari Baker! ⚔️ Kari will also be competing in multiple categories, so wish her luck 🍀

Next AG Open Instructor Spotlight!

Kari has been a student with Mordhau Historical Combat in Mesa, Arizona since 2021. Though her time in HEMA has been short, her list of weapons that she's competed and trained in is long: longsword, rapier, smallsword, sabre, messer, dagger, sword and buckler, singlestick, broadsword, mixed weapons, and longsword cutting. She has medaled five times in longsword tournaments and once in rapier. Kari also brings in her passion for statistics and data science to the HEMA scene; she has contributed multiple articles to SwordSTEM that look at sword fighting from a statistical perspective.

Mordhau Head Instructor Brittany is traveling to Michigan shortly to compete in the Tier A Cutting tournament and to give a lecture at AG Open.

Brittany is the Head Instructor and Co-Founder of Mordhau Historical Combat in Mesa, Arizona. She is a decorated competitor and respected instructor who has taught and competed at the largest HEMA events in the world.

Interested in taking these classes at AG Open?
Get your tickets here:
https://www.tickettailor.com/events/arsgladii/770146

A couple ladies are missing from the photo but we had a great women’s longsword class yesterday and Victoria did a fantastic job instructing ⚔️

🥳 Ramon wins gold in open longsword and Curtis wins silver in beginner’s longsword 🥇🥈⚔️

Thank you to the Phoenix Society of Historical Swordsmanship for hosting the event and giving our team a chance to fight!

Mordhau is double dipping on events today! We have a team fighting, sparring, and learning at an event in Denmark and we also have a team competing locally at the Phoenix Society.

In Denmark, Tony placed in the top 6 finalists for the tournament. Meanwhile Brittany is teaching a class tomorrow, and Paul, Rob, Josh, Donald, and Victoria are soaking up everything the Denmark sword community has to offer.

Back at home, Ramon and Kari are competing in open longsword at the Phoenix Society, and Curtis is competing in beginner’s longsword.

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We had a ton of fun doing our mini messer tournament today! Thank you everyone for a wonderful time. We didn’t get too many pictures but the ones were did get turned out incredibly well! Thank you Toby Sear Photography for these awesome shots! ⚔️

The boys coming home victorious from SoCal Swordfight! Alberto brings home a gold medal in Tier C Longsword Cutting, Lucas coming home with a bronze medal in Beginner’s Synthetic Longsword, and Ramon cleaning up with a 4th place finish in Tier C Longsword Cutting.

The rest of the team did exceptionally well too, the MordHorde had an excellent showing! ⚔️

We’re at SoCal Swordfight this weekend. Starting the day off with the Team Relay tournament. Jon, Ramon, and Kari made up MordTeam2. They faced off against our friends from Einhorn and True Edge this morning⚔️

We have a snack/tea/coffee bar now 🫖⚔️

Donald and Josh representing Mordhau this weekend at WEIRD Open in Austin, Texas! Wish them luck!

The boys waiting patiently to hear the results of open longsword cutting at Valley of the Sun. Tony was in finals and this picture was taken just before the results were announced. Spoiler alert: 🥇

Kyle doing Kyle things next month at SoCal SwordFight!

Please join us in welcoming back Kyle Griswold, head instructor of Mordhau Historical Combat and creator of Broken Blade Publishing back as an instructor for SoCal Swordfight 2023!

Kyle is an accomplished competitor with gold medals in multiple fencing categories and in 2022, Kyle became the national champion in Armored Combat Sports - Polearm.

This year, Kyle will be presenting a class that needs no further introduction:
Murder Strikes with the Murder Axe

To find our more about the class, and Kyle, click the link below to visit his profile:
https://socalswordfight.com/kyle-griswold

Mordhau went out to the quick and deadly duels tournament hosted by our friends at the Phoenix Society of Historical Swordsmanship. Nik and Curtis competed for the first time, while Kari and Ramon demonstrated great fights as the veterans on our team.
Big congratulations to Ramon who came away with a silver medal in the rondel dagger category! Mordhau’s first medal of 2023, and medal #2 for Ramon ⚔️

A year’s worth of Mordhau medals ready to go up on the wall 🥇🥈🥉

Shield Knock 2022 has wrapped up! We had a lot of fun hosting everyone and we are looking forward to welcoming everyone back next year for Shield Knock 2023.

🚨🔥We had to get the fire extinguisher in the new studio when these two showed up 😆

We’re approaching the final days to register for Shield Knock! With that said, we have a couple announcements regarding the event:

1) unfortunately our guest instructor, Henry Hill, is not able to make it. ☹️
2) we will have Michael Chidester join us instead! 🤩
3) regular Mordhau classes will be cancelled on Nov 12 & 13 to accommodate Shield Knock.😎

Kari has been tearing up the tournament scene this year, she returns victorious with a bronze in womens longsword from Gesellenfechten in Oklahoma.