Starting Friday, may 1st and running until June 12th, our next class will be a 6 week introduction to the 18th century smallsword! When someone calls you a liar, the only *reasonable* way to defend your honor is a duel to the death. Taught by Ben Kiss, this smallsword class focuses on competitive smallsword combat…

This Friday, April 4th, 2026, class is cancelled for good friday at the request of the venue. Saber class will continue for 3 weeks past then, with the last saber class on Friday, April 24th, 2026. Saber will be followed by smallsword class, starting May 1st. (more details to come) Additionally, our annual multiweapon tournament's…

Given the amount of snow we got last night and condition of roads, class will be cancelled tonight, Monday, February 23rd. Class will be in session as normal this Friday, starting our new saber class. Next Monday, as the first Monday of the month, will be sparring night. See you all then!

We've got exciting news! First we'll be starting a new Friday class from 02/27/2026-04/10/2026: February 27th begins our 6-class saber study group, lead by Aaron Greenberg. This will be a survey of various saber systems including the British and Italian military manuals of Roworth, Angelo, and Del Frate. We will also be exploring some of…

Our next formal Friday curriculum will have 6 classes, running from Friday, January 9th (01/09) to Friday, February 13th (02/13). This class will taught by Tristan Catalano, and will be on the rapier system of Salvatore Fabris, an early 17th century Italian fencing master. A contemporary of Thibault that gets chapters of explicit reference in…

Today, December 26th, 2025, class will be cancelled, due to unsafe weather conditions (~7 inches of snow forecasted during class time) and already low attendance as it's the day after christmas. Sorry to anyone who was excited to fence tonight, we'll see you all for class again this Monday, December 29th, 2025. Happy holidays!

We are very excited to announce that we now offer classes on Fridays, at the same time (6-7:30, open floor 7:30-9) and same place (Bethesda Lutheran Church, 450 Whitney Avenue). The first formal curriculum we will be running is a 6 week class from 10/24-11/28 on Gérard Thibault d'Anvers' rapier system, taught by Isabel Branch.…

Hi Fencers,This is just a quick note to remind everyone to sign our new waiver, which is accessible here:https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSdMC_Y7V47mC5HonuFrx6HhnDiRQ01YA3qTQqsXNl1GiKODyw/viewform?pli=1 If you're among those who don't like to be tracked by Google / Alphabet etc (and fair enough!), then we will ahve hard copies you can sign in class.

Hi fencers,this is just a quick note to say that YES, class is still on for Labor Day. Since it's the first Monday of the month, it will be a sparring night - so come prepared to sweat!

Over the weekend a bunch of us from New Haven Historical Fencing had a great time at an excellent event held by Per La Vita Academy of Western Martial Arts and Thames River Historical Fencing.Also: our crew did really well! Four announcements: 1) Our very own Justin WON the tournament (and thus won a new…