2019年2月9日土曜日 - 
Adam:Historical European Martial Arts （HEMA)
My
name is Adam Ritz, and I am a new instructor here at Nova's Multimedia Center.
Today, I would like to introduce you to my hobby called Historical European Martial
Arts, or HEMA for short. HEMA is unique, because we learn directly from
historical sources. That means we study books and texts written between the
1300s up to the early 1900s. I focus on a historical text named 'The Art of
Combat' written by a German Free Fencer named Joachim Meyer. In this book, he
instructs the use of several weapons including the longsword, dusack, rappier,
dagger, staff, spear, halberd, and a set of wrestling techniques.
HEMA
has a broken chain of master-to-student relationships (due to the introduction
and popularity of firearms), so we have to actively study and recreate it
through study and trial and error. While this can be difficult, it creates an
environment where everyone is encouraged to interpret the material themselves.
The more people that are studying and testing their interpretations, the more
accurate our martial art gets.
HEMA
has grown a lot in the last few years. If you are willing to travel,
tournaments are available virtually year round. Most HEMA schools and clubs are
small, having anywhere from two to fifteen regularly-attending students and
being run in a park or rented space. A number have managed to grow big enough
to support full-time schools with their own buildings to call home.
There
are a few misconceptions about HEMA that lots of people have. It is not like
the sport fencing, though if you look back far enough they have the same
origin. Fencing is a sport based around touching your opponent with the tip of
your foil. In HEMA when we spar, we use blunted steel and/or synthetic weapons
that are weighted like their real life counterparts. So more protection is
required.
Martial Arts：武術
focus on：焦点を当てる
dusack：ｶﾄﾗｽやｻｰﾍﾞﾙのように片刃の刃
rapier：大型の細く先の尖った刀の総称
dagger：短剣
staff：薙刀のような棒状の武器
spear：槍
halberd：斧と槍が合体した武器
a broken chain of master-to-student relationships：師から弟子に受け継がれていない
through study and trial and error：試行錯誤しながら
interpret：解釈する
virtually：実質的に
misconceptions：誤解
opponent：敵
blunted steel：砥がれていない（切れない）剣
synthetic weapons：偽物の武器
weighted：重くした
counterparts：本物の写し