About Highland Broadsword

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Highland Broadsword - The Art of Defense:

Welcome to the Broadsword Academy Germany. We are an official certified school of the Cateran Society (cateransociety.wordpress.com). We practice and research the Art of Defense, the armed and unarmed combat styles of 18th Century Scotland, Ireland, Wales and England (with some extend from the 16th to 19th Century).

Our Curriculum is based on and inspired by historical manuals of Zachary Wylde (1711), Donald McBane (1728), Thomas Page (1746), Cpt. G. Sinclair (1790), Henry Angelo (1799), Thomas Mathewson (1805) and others. We train swordsmanship with Backsword/Smallsword (plus offhand weapons), Quarterstaff (as base of all twohanded weapons) and unarmed combat (Pugilism & Wrestling). Basing on this we explore weapons like Cutlass, Spadroon, Saber, Cudgel, Tomahawk, Dirk, Lochaber-Axe, Spontoon, Musket & Bayonet, Claymore and others).

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Art of Defense - Sparring

Impressions from our sparrings in regular training classes with various weapons and training tools: Steel Broadswords, Alehouse Dagger, Spadroon, Quarterstaff, Cutlass, unarmed and more.

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Backsword Sparring - Balefire Blades Angelo

Some Backsword Sparring Highlights, using The Angelo steel trainingswords by Balefire Blades

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Hopeless? Smallsword vs Lochaber-Axe

Hope shows in his famous poster also how to use the Hanging Guard of his New Method to defend against the blow of a Lochaber-Axe. Recently Paul Wagner of the Stoccata School of Defense in Australia made a video on how this should be interpreted and I agree on that. So for us it was the logical next…

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