Websites linking back to xkdf.org

Longpoint is the premier North American competitive HEMA event. Held outside of Baltimore, we host top competitors from both sides of the Atlantic.

Wiktenauer is an ongoing collaboration among researchers and practitioners from across the Western martial arts community, seeking to collect all of the primary and secondary source literature that makes up the text of historical European martial arts research and to organize and present it in a scholarly but accessible format. The Wiktenauer project started in 2009, later receiving sponsorship from the Historical European Martial Arts Alliance, and is named for Johannes Liechtenauer, grand master of the oldest known longsword fencing style; his tradition was also the best-documented of the early Modern era, the subject of many dozens of manuscripts and books over a period of more than three centuries. Here are a few basic categories of pages that are being constructed:

The xKDF Network is a group of clubs practicing the reconstructed martial arts of medieval Germany. Based on extant source material, our martial art focuses on historical techniques found across hundreds of years of fighting treatises and books created specifically to present systems of combat that demonstrate an efficient and deadly form of serious fencing.