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Home of the London Longsword Academy!

We are great, so there.
It’s all a bit of a blur.
Longsword freeplay at Sword Saturday.

#hema #fencing #londonlongswordfamily #londonlongswordacademy #learnswordfighting #london #hemauk #community
December 10, 2025 at 2:06 AM
Someone misappropriated our sabres from the storage space, so if you see anyone with an enlarged sabre boffer collection, please bear us in mind, as we would like them returned.☺️
Of course this doesn’t distract from our ability to run classes, as they removed only the tools and not the teacher.😉
December 9, 2025 at 1:12 AM
December 6, 2025 at 2:36 PM
Rage hard against the dying of intellectual curiosity!
December 3, 2025 at 3:07 PM
I think people believe me convinced I am right.
No dears, I am a researcher, I will pick up shapes and place them against evidence, be happily right and happily wrong. The joy is discovery.

#londonlongswordfamily #londonlongswordacdemy
#davidrawlings
December 2, 2025 at 5:41 PM
I can see no reason why a government increasingly intolerant of protest and criticism, would wish to end the right to trial by jury.
November 25, 2025 at 10:20 PM
“What is this dagger I see before me?”
The Friday Verdadera Destreza class, Chan and Annie putting in some excellent form working with Don Luis Diáz de Viedma

#shakespeare #macbeth
#hema #fencing #londonlongswordfamily #londonlongswordacademy #learnswordfighting #london
November 24, 2025 at 10:17 PM
The Friday longsword class performing so excellently.
a bit of Joachim Meyer, a lot of from the Von Bauman fechtbuch. All in all, ace.

#hema #fencing #londonlongswordfamily #londonlongswordacademy #learnswordfighting #london #longsword #achillemarozzo #liechtenauer #hemauk #community #davidrawlings
November 22, 2025 at 3:26 AM
It’s my day off, so it’s time for a private lesson followed by my talk “Frighteningly Queer, the misconception of Straightness in Martial Arts”.
Also, if you do well in the private lesson you get to do it with sharps.☠️⚔️☠️

Brilliant work on Don Simon de Frias.
November 20, 2025 at 7:26 PM
November 17, 2025 at 10:24 PM
I made a mistake in an interpretation. Which is fucking great, because I got to go back to the research, collate and correct all the information and come back with new and better information. So we improve!☺️❤️⚔️❤️☺️

#hema #fencing #londonlongswordfamily #londonlongswordacademy #learnswordfighting #lon
November 15, 2025 at 12:46 AM
I swear she’s saying “I don’t know”

#cat #londonlongswordfamily #londonlongswordacademy
November 12, 2025 at 2:51 AM
Ain’t life great./☺️⚔️☺️

This wonderful moment, training Verdadera Destreza (of course with a little Girard Thibault thrown in) with Ossian, marks the mid point.

#hema #fencing #londonlongswordfamily #londonlongswordacademy #learnswordfighting #london #verdaderadestreza
November 10, 2025 at 1:14 AM
Impressed by all the students in the fundamentals classes this week. I really pushed to see how much they could process, carefully to be sure they could apply the prior principle, but truly superb work, lovely dialogue and questions,

HEMA beginner classes A+

#hema #fencing #londonlongswordfamily
November 7, 2025 at 11:38 PM
So much goodness in the mixed weapons class in Crystal Palace. All freeplay, all fencing. Beautiful.

#hema #fencing #londonlongswordfamily #londonlongswordacademy #learnswordfighting #london #achillemarozzo #joachimmeyer #hemauk #community #davidrawlings #polearms
November 5, 2025 at 2:50 AM
They are back! The Chaos Quartet!
Made clean by their maker Balefire Blades, who kindly gave blades a reworking and even reblacked the fittings!

#hema #fencing #londonlongswordfamily #londonlongswordacademy #learnswordfighting #london #rapier #elric #warhammer #haileris #illuminati
November 4, 2025 at 1:01 AM
Remember, candy at Halloween is often laced with Trebuchets and other items harmful to the untrained. Give them to me.

www.justgiving.com/page/david-r... in case you want to donate to healthier matters:)

#hema #fencing #londonlongswordfamily #londonlongswordacademy
October 31, 2025 at 2:56 PM
Getting the Halloween excites!

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October 31, 2025 at 12:23 PM
Reposted
This is utterly terrifying.
Could ICE have ‘lost' 3,000 immigrant arrestees in Chicago?

NBC Chicago's investigative team reports at least 3,000 jailed immigrants have vanished from federal records, according to human rights attorneys and organizations.

www.nbcchicago.com/investigatio...
Could ICE have 'lost' 3,000 immigrant arrestees in Chicago?
At least 3,000 jailed immigrants have vanished from federal records, according to human rights attorneys and organizations.
www.nbcchicago.com
October 29, 2025 at 12:48 PM
We get to play with Swords, that’s pretty fucking awesome ain’t it.☺️⚔️☺️

#hema #fencing #londonlongswordfamily #londonlongswordacademy #learnswordfighting #london #longsword #achillemarozzo #joachimmeyer #paulushectormair #hemauk
October 25, 2025 at 6:40 PM
When you accidentally @joeabercrombie.com
Also what the hell thumbnail choices!

#londonlongswordacademy #londonlongswordfamily #verdaderadestreza
Verdadera Destreza cuphilt rapier from Timeblade Guild
YouTube video by London Longsword Academy
youtu.be
October 23, 2025 at 2:33 PM
Nice start to the day, spadone and montante from Alfieri and Figuerido with Doctor Robert Atkinson of Swiss HEMA
Hopefully get to meet him again soon. Might even wax that moustache properly.☺️

#hema #fencing #londonlongswordfamily #londonlongswordacademy #learnswordfighting #london #longsword
October 22, 2025 at 1:28 AM