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…

Just a reminder that on Monday, May 6th, we'll be running a casual, in-house mixed weapons tournament (organised by the excellent and indefatigable Ruthie!) in place of our usual sparring night.

Our regular Monday night class will not be held on Monday, December 25th due to it being Christmas Day.However, we WILL be holding class on Monday Jan 1st - so by all means come by and get some exercise!Happy holidays to all!

We have two great events coming up on our calendar, and I wanted to give them a shout-out here, just to boost the signal. Many of us are already in preparation for the Iron Gate Exhibition (A.K.A. IGX) in New Hampshire in two weeks's time. (For those who aren't: it's not too late to join…

Hi fencers, For the last couple of weeks we've been discussing the possibility of dropping our COVID mask requirement (though keeping our vaccine requirement). We wanted to make sure that all our club members had a chance to share their views about this, whether by name or anonymously. At present, it seems as if the…