Sword & Buckler Event at the Royal Armouries Museum, Leeds.
Sword & Buckler
The event will be run in association with KDF International, Combat Archaeology and the Royal Armouries, Leeds.
During the day, it will be possible to attend lectures and workshops which will take the form of practical training sessions and open sparring. Training workshops will focus on related subjects of sword and buckler, shield work and single-handed swords, probably including Messer.
There will be a number of lectures/talks on associated sword and buckler subjects, with the option of a handling session featuring original artefacts from the Royal Armouries collection and a viewing of the famous 1.33 manuscript.
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Rolf Warming
Rolf is the founder of the Society for Combat Archaeology (SoCA). He holds an MA degree in Maritime Archaeology from the University of Southampton and another MA degree in Prehistoric Archaeology from the University of Copenhagen. His studies have preeminently been on the subject of combat and conflict in the past, ranging from Mesolithic violence to organized state formation in the Renaissance. He has achieved the rank of sergeant in the Royal Danish Army. In addition to this, Rolf is the chief instructor of Weapons Combat Systems, a weaponry-based martial art which he teaches on both a national and international level through classes, seminars, etc.
