2024 – Arne Koets – Lecture – ‘How mounted fencing changed my perspective on True Times and Tempo’
A little look through tactical decisionmaking, biomechanics, semantics, geometry and defense.
2024 – Asante Lawla – Workshop – ‘Foundational Battlefield Combat’
In this session, we will explore foundational principles of battlefield combat, including close combat from knife fighting, skirmishing geometry, and spearwork mechanics for generating power.
2024 – Fabrice Cognot – Workshop – ‘Can you grant me the rank of Master now?’
Fiore’s Dagger Masters show us several aspects of fighting with (or against) a dagger. You must know them all.
2024 – Jay Maxwell – Workshop – ‘Ferocious Deconstruction: The “Billhook” in Action’
Second only to the spear in its widespread use on the battlefield, the use of a cut‐and‐thrust polearm, usually with a hook and an overall length of ca. 240 cm has numerous applications for laceration, trapping and hooking.
2024 – Oskar ter Mors – Workshop – ‘Dy rechten zeytt zu eynem ydlichen Stück’
Making choices is hard, especially when someone tries to hit you with a messer. In this workshop, Oskar will present a cross section of Lecküchner’s fight book, focussed on (eliminating) decision making.
2024 – Inga Huismann – Workshop – ‘Nasty tricks with pointy sticks’
Experience the highlights of early renaissance dagger fighting. Be prepared to hit the ground!
2024 – Reinier van Noort – Workshop – ‘Let’s start with plan A.’
This rapier stuff is dumb. As making a lunge is a tempo, how can I attack my opponent if they are simply waiting for me to do that?
2024 – Tea Kew – Workshop – ‘Fencing from the Sweeps’
Could Ringeck’s plays from streychen be the key to understanding how Liechtenauer created the art?
2024 – Alex Kiermayr – Workshop – ‘Speak softly and carry a big stick; you will go far’
Shephards strike and Brain blow – having fun with Meyer`s staff!
2024 – Peter Gspandl-Pataki – Workshop – ‘Stick it to them! Sabre vs Polearms in Context’
Learn to defend yourself with a sabre against polearms while looking absolutely dashing!
2024 – Jake Norwood – Lecture – ‘More Than Playing for Touches: Swords as Cutting Instruments’
Move past sword‐tag! Explore how swords cut, and what modern fencers can do to learn to cut correctly and to enhance their swordplay with effective cutting technique.
2024 – Jack Gassmann – Workshop – ‘Becoming a Schirmmeister, advanced defensive skills’
Stop giving your opponent an easy time. Make your defence as offensive as Liechtenauer would have wanted.
2024 – Marcus Hampel – Workshop – ‘Make out the most of your training with HALAG rules and echelon!’
Increase the level of your training and employ HALAG rules and echelon! Different scenarios offer different challenges. Learn all about it!
2024 – Diana Matthes – Workshop – ‘Binden, Fühlen, Winden. Let’s get kinky with a blindfold’
How to exercise Fühlen in an effective and instinctive way.
2024 – Jake Norwood – Workshop – ‘Gemeynes Fechten: A Theoretical “Common Fencing”’
Liechtenauer tells us not to do what the “common fencers do”...but what did they do, and why was it common? Because it works!
2024 – Florian Fortner – Workshop – ‘Fabris’ Rapier & Cape – the Epitome of Elegance’
Wrap your cape around your arm, so you can elegantly harm – Rapier & Cape, the epitome of elegance.
2024 – Carlo Parisi – Workshop – ‘Bertolini’s duelling sword’
An elegant and simple fencing style, by a 75 years old master with a lot of experience, the class includes funny and unusual exercises.
2024 – Dierk Hagedorn – Lecture – ‘If I were a fightbook, I’d be the Ortenburg.’
The mysteries of a lost German manuscript from the 16th century.
2024 – Torsten Schneyer – Workshop – ‘DO IT LIKE THE OLD MASTERS’
Free Fencing with little or no protection gear!
2024 – Elias Flatscher – Workshop – Ringen in Bauman’s Fechtbuch («Codex Wallerstein») Part C
Have you ever thought that Ringen (wrestling) is too complicated? Look no further than Wallerstein section C – with only eight techniques to smite them all!
2024 – Alexander Klenner – Workshop – “Pressure and distance management for Meyer’s staff techniques”
Pressure and distance management for Meyer's staff techniques & how to be able to use every part of the staff successfully in a fight.
2024 – Daniel Jaquet – Testlab – “Federschwert” – new perspectives on replicas for testing
Federschwert? Experts know, how much do you know about them? Come and test new replicas that bring us closer to the original swords.
2024 – Bernhard Seidl – Workshop – ‘Exploring Überlaufen in Peter Falkner’s longsword manuscript’
Can’t decide whether you like Longsword or Messer more? Why not Messer up your Longsword with Peter Falkner?
2024 – Martin Enzi – Workshop – ‘Screwed it up again? – Make Messer techniques work like in the sources’
Having problems making messer techniques work like in the sources? Let's have some lightbulb moments in this workshop!
2024 – Bert Obernosterer – Lecture – ‘Weekend Warriors Assemble – how to prepare for competitions while having an actual life’
Damn, a tournament is coming up in 5 weeks! I got this important deadline at work, and the city trip with my loved one is also around the corner! How to prepare with the limited time I have, without getting booted out of work and/or the bedroom? No clue - let’s ask Bert, maybe he got an idea…
2024 – Marine Beaumel – Workshop – ‘Be 1.33x more effective: Fight efficient and smarter, not harder!’
Be 1.33x more effective: Fight efficient and smarter, not harder!
2024 – Daniel Jaquet – Lecture – ‘Motion capture musings – unleash the power of European Martial Arts interpretations.’
They say the book is limited to communicate complex body motions... the screen overcomes the still image, but also has limits of its own.
2024 – Roman Vučajnk – Lecture – ‘Thousand Years of Warrior Monks’
Who were the knights, who were encouraged to fight on the battlefield, but forbidden to take part in duels of honour? How could a runaway murdering duellist be openly accepted and honoured among the ranks of the greatest heroes of Europe? Find out at Dreynevent.