Aug 2001

An interview with editor David Cvet can be found at http://fight.sphosting.com/cvet.html

Continental Academy of American Heritage Fighting Arts Website online

This site includes articles, essays, photo-series and downloadable videos on the re-construction of martial arts and combat sports of the 1800s -1900s.

http://keith.martialartsman.com/

June 2001

Broken Heart School of Arms Website online

"Dedicated to historical accuracy in the Occidental martial arts", the homepage is available at

http://schoolofarms.tripod.com/. This site includes complete scans of several 19^th century combatives manuals, including the Manual Del Baratero (Spain, 1849); The Art And Practice Of Boxing (England, 1825); Defensive Exercises (England, 1840); and the Science Of Self Defence (U.S.A., 1867).

AHFAA Website online

"The American Heritage Fighting Arts Association is dedicated to the preservation and promotion of the Western fighting arts as they evolved in America, and as they were practiced in the countries which the new Americans were leaving behind. This includes a number of weapons, such as the bayonet, saber, walking stick and bowie knife as well as unarmed skills in boxing, wrestling, rough-and-tumble fighting, physical culture and health exercise."

http://www.people.cornell.edu/pages/pak9/america.html
 

EJMAS features relating to European and Colonial combatives, 1776 – 1914.

IN YO

For information on women’s combative sports in the early part of the 20^th century;
http://www.ejmas.com/jalt/jaltart_svinth4_1199.htm

For the adventures of a Jujutsu master in Edwardian London, including his run-ins with professional wrestlers;
http://www.ejmas.com/jalt/jaltart_Noble_1000.htm

Journal of Combative Sport

For an anecdote by champion shoot wrestler Frank Gotch;
http://www.ejmas.com/jcs/jcsart_YukonWorld_1199.htm

Journal of Non-Lethal Combat
A two-part re-printed article on cane fighting by E.W. Barton-Wright, founder of Bartitsu;

http://www.ejmas.com/jnc/jncart_barton-wright_0200.htm

http://www.ejmas.com/jnc/jncart_barton-wright_0400.htm

For information on Pierre Vigny, another eclectic martial artist of the Edwardian era;
http://www.ejmas.com/jnc/jncart_vigny_0500.htm

A collection of self defence tricks, c.1910;
http://www.ejmas.com/jnc/jncart_wolf_0900.htm

Richard Burton’s complete system of military sabre fighting;
http://www.ejmas.com/jnc/jncart_burtonnewsword_0200.htm

Burton’s classic "Sentiment of the Sword";
http://www.ejmas.com/jnc/jncart_burtonsentimentswordcontents_0300.htm

An intriguing Edwardian spin on Jujutsu;
http://www.ejmas.com/jnc/jncart_healthstrength_0100.htm

An article by Edith Garrud, a pioneer of women’s self defence;
http://www.ejmas.com/jnc/jncart_garrud_1299.htm

For information on military bayonet combat;
http://www.ejmas.com/jnc/jncart_svinth3_1199.htm

Kronos

EJMAS editor Joseph Svinth’s epic martial chronology;

http://www.ejmas.com/kronos/index.html

JANUARY 2000

The workshop will include vendor displays of arms and armour, lectures and presentations by notable individuals, including a presentation on the infamous I.33 manuscript. Weapons covered in this workshop will include: longsword, sword & shield, pole-axe, rapier, rapier & dagger, schlager, dusak, dagger, quarter-staff and unarmed techniques.  Weapons will be either wooden
"wasters" or steel.  A classical/historical fencing tournament is scheduled for Friday followed
by an ancient fencing (medieval) tournament on Saturday.

For more details and schedule of events, check out the URL at http://www.aemma.org/wma2000.html

David Cvet
Executive Editor