Hier findet ihr alle bisher bestätigten Trainer und Vortragenden des Schwabenhau 2024!
Jonathan Spouge (Longsword, UK)
Jonathan began his HEMA career in a Dundee nightclub basement with a student society in 2010, before joining the Academy of Historical Arts. He started a youth club for Scottish Broadsword in 2012, and then in 2015 helped found The Vanguard Centre in Glasgow – the UK’s first full-time HEMA venue. Now currently the chief instructor at Vanguard, he is managing a team of young professional HEMA coaches as well as teaching many different HEMA disciplines.
Jonathan specialises in German Longsword of the 15th and 16th centuries, as well as British Military Sabre and Scottish Broadsword, but he likes to try a little of everything. He has competed internationally and taught workshops all across the UK, but is most proud of his students‘ success in recent years, along with his technical prizes and sportsmanship awards.
Workshops: Meyer is Majestic (Longsword – Jonathan Spouge)
Marcello Perillo (Langschwert, IT)
Marcello started practicing HEMA in 2017, in Sala D’Arme Achille Marozzo in Italy, following the traditional Bolognese fencing school and kept on practicing since then in different schools around Italy and Germany. Currently, he practices as HEMA trainer for HEMA Köln leading classes in longsword, sidesword and fencing for kids.
His background with longsword includes training and studying following Fiore, German school and Marozzo as well as a good dose of Montante and German schlachtschwert.
His main objective as a trainer is to explore the different realities of historical fencing and to create bridges between them to bring something new and unexpected to the training he offers, as well to see happy faces of people holding swords :,)
Workshop 1: Wo ist Fiore? Weit weg, jetzt nah, zu NAHHH! Teil 1 (Langschwert – Marcello Perillo)
Workshop 2: Wo ist Fiore? Weit weg, jetzt nah, zu NAHHH! Teil 2 (Langschwert – Marcello Perillo)
Luigi Simone Menichino (Rapier, IT)
Menichino Luigi Simone began his fencing career in 2014, approaching the world of martial arts with weapons, more precisely Kendo, thanks to the KenseiDojo in Rho (Milan), where athletes from the Italian national team and high-level Dan still train.
He then learns the basics of cutting dynamics, footwork and measurement control according to the methodologies of the oriental schools of Japanese fencing.
After about 1 year of practice, he came into contact with HEMA thanks to the Sala D’arme Achille Marozzo, of which he will be part for the next 3 years.
Here he will study, through the reading and application of the concepts present in the fencing treatises of the 15th and 16th centuries, the teachings of the Bolognese fencing masters, such as Achille Marozzo and Antonio Manciolino, who will constitute the key to understanding his approach to fencing.
Subsequently, he continued as an athlete and held the first pre-competitive courses with Sword Academy in Villaguardia. Furthermore, it is during this period that he begins to be a constant presence in the Italian competitive circuit and achieves his first sporting results.
To better understand the dynamics of the duel, he then decides to practice a combat sport in parallel with fencing: first boxing, and then subsequently moving on to kick boxing, thus combining the experiences of both bare-knuckle martial arts and bladed weapons.
He finally arrived at Comense Scherma in 2023 and here he consolidated all his previous experiences, both as an athlete and as an instructor, also obtaining the 2nd level FIS technician diploma.
Among the most important results achieved as an athlete in Historical Fencing we can find:
- 1st Current CSEN Ranking of Sidesword and Accompanied Sidesword
- 3rd Current HEMA RATING for Sidesword
- Unified Italian Champion of Rapier 2023 (Italian CSEN Champion 2023 and Italian FIS Historical Fencing Champion 2023)
- 2nd place FIS Historical Fencing in Sword and Buckler 2023
- Italian CSEN 2023 Side Sword Champion
- Winner of the English Sidesword Open 2022 in Sidesword
- Winner of the English Sidesword Open 2022 in Sword and Dagger
- 3rd place Oslo Penguin Cup in Sword and Buckler 2023
- More than 20 medals in other disciplines from 2017 to today (Saber, Two-Handed Sword, Spear and accompanying weapons)
Workshop 1: How to build your actions (Rapier – Luigi Simone Menichino)
Workshop 2: 2 weapons equal 2 resources (Rapier & Dagger – Luigi Simone Menichino)
Ulrik Neumann (Langes Messer, DE)
Ulrik started historical fencing in 2013 with Messer and Sabre. He currently is president of „Die Freifechter“ in Cologne, Germany, as well as head instructor for everything Messer-related.
In his historical fencing journey, Ulrik has learned to like and have fun with a lot of different HEMA-weapons and -styles, but his first and true love remains the Messer.
Over the years, he has taught workshops on Messer fencing at different international events and occasions. Contents varying from the Glasgow Fechtbuch, over in-depth Lecküchner techniques, to fencing-orientied applications of fundamental concepts and principles.
Workshop: Eber und Stier, das rat‘ ich dir (Langes Messer – Ulrik Neumann)
Lydia Röntgen (Taschensand, DE)
Lydia started her fencing career in 2009 with Longsword and branched out into Rapier in 2019. She started her Trainer career in 2022 as a Co-Trainer for Longsword with the Schwabenfedern.
Workshop: Godinhos Taschensand (Lydia Röntgen / Rapier o. Einhandwaffe)
Andreas Rainer Weiss (Vortrag, DE)
Ich begann 2019 mit HEMA bei den Schwabenfedern in Ulm. Ich trainiere hauptsächlich mit dem Langschwert. Ich bin recht aktiv auf Turnieren und anderen HEMA Events unterwegs.