Tempered Mettle Historical Fencing

Saturday March 21st

Come celebrate our collective love of fencing!

Come train with us in the art of swordplay on Saturday 21st at our second annual early year event, This time we will have a single guest instructor doing an all day workshop.

The event will be held at our fencing hall, "The Crucible," the address is 2513 West Springfield Ave Suite 2, Champaign, IL 61821.

General Gear Requirements are Standard 350n fencing clothing including a jacket and pants or other leg covering, mask, gorget, heavy gloves are required for longswords and simple hilts, light gloves are permitted for complex hilts. Swords should be made by a reputable manufacturer and free of rust, burrs, cracks or other defects, and enchantments.

Jeremy Pace

Jeremy Pace is the head instructor for Cymbrogi School of Western Martial Arts out of Oklahoma City. Jeremy has been practicing WMA/HEMA since 2001 but began MOF and other sword arts when he was 15 years old. Jeremy, and Cymbrogi,  primarily study early KDF (Kunst des Fechten) and Longsword has been their weapon of choice for student and skills development. Jeremy is a firm believer however that only through fully exploring KDF can you become masterful in the Art. This means they also offer classes on Medieval Wrestling (Ringen), Dagger, Messer, and Harness.

Full Bio 

Sprechfenster

The Speaking Window for all of KDF. 


The Speaking Window is an often misunderstood and misapplied technique/skill by KDF practitioners. The name alone sounds confusing but after nearly 25 years of studying and applying KDF concepts, Jeremy believes this is the keystone of KDF and the 5 Words. Binding, feeling, the Vor are all covered in this class and are vitally important to Sprechfenster. 


This class runs for 90 minutes and is scaffolded for skill building. Over the 90 minutes we will build skills but also show you tools to help develop the skills on your own in order to improve your KDF concepts and overall fencing. The Keystone of Sprechfenster does not just apply to Longsword, but can be used with all bladed weapons and is useful no matter what your primary master or weapon of choice might be. 

Sword & Buckler

The Speaking Window for all of KDF


Explore Fencing tactics from multiple sources to up your SnB game both for competition and play. Jeremy will walk you through concepts like sieging the wards, wide vs narrow play, deception and hiding the sword and just general strategies for sword and buckler use. 

Side sword or arming sword and buckler required. Fencing mask and gloves required. Some Loner gear available.
Full Class Description

Schedule

Saturday
  • 9:30 AM - Doors open and checkin
  • 10:30 AM - Morning session
  • 12:00 PM - Lunch
  • 1:30 PM - 3:00 PM Afternoon session 
  • 3:00 PM - 5:00ish PM - Open fencing. Try our ruleset!
  • 7PM - Pub Crawl - Details at the event.
Sunday
  • Open Hall - doors at 10:30AM
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