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Ursa Major HEMA Academy

Locality: North Beach, Western Australia, Australia

Address: 7a Kitchener St North Beach, WA, Australia

Website: http://ursamajorhema.com

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25.01.2022 It's been great getting back to sword and buckler. What better way to end a lesson than a few rounds of King of the Hill!

24.01.2022 "Learning defense improves the attack. If the lion knows how the prey can escape, itll capture it in a much more precise way" - Rilion Gracie

24.01.2022 Historical evidence of pike combat - thanks to the ever-comical Alex Tawns. HEMA is super serious stuff, people.

23.01.2022 With so many new students joining Sword and Buckler training on Tuesday nights, it's been great to see our senior students taking time out of their drills to teach the newbies things like footwork, hand position and of course; how to safely stab your opponent in the neck - Lignitzer style

22.01.2022 August was a huge month at UMHA with the graduation of the winter longsword intake and one of our biggest grading session. Congratulations to Dan, Luke and Matt for the successful grading to the rank of Journeyman and Jacinta, Josh and Matt (again!) to the rank of Fighter.

22.01.2022 We recently held our annual sword tournament and saw some great fights across the day. If you didn't make it down to check it out in the flesh, you can see the footage on one of our member's youtube channels here: https://www.youtube.com/playlist

22.01.2022 What a great exchange!

21.01.2022 Flawless logic, really.

20.01.2022 It's been a while since the last caption contest so post your caption in the comments below. Comments with the highest number of likes will be shortlisted with the final round of voting by the students of UMHA. We'll announce the winner on Saturday!!!

20.01.2022 We're about to get our Sword & Buckler on at the UMHA club tournament

19.01.2022 With the sword tournament done and dusted, Tuesday nights are changing to sword and buckler night. If you're interested in learning sword and buckler, get in touch via Messenger

19.01.2022 Another month - another tournament! This weekend Dan, Charlie, Pat, Knuckles, David and Ben will be competing for the Sword & Buckler Champion of 2020!! Good luck everyone!

18.01.2022 It's been a long time planning, preparing and waiting for covid-19 restrictions to lift but our inaugural longsword intake is happening this weekend!!! Hands up who's excited!!!!!!!

18.01.2022 Being a good sparring partner, occasionally means being sturtzhau'ed in the neck

17.01.2022 Sword Tournament Finals!!! Dan vs David fighting it out for 1st and 2nd place with Toby vs Ben for 3rd and 4th.

17.01.2022 It's so good to be back at training and getting back into sparring!!!! Welcome back everyone

16.01.2022 Our longsword tournament is always our biggest one of the year. From filming to scoring & timekeeping, judging, reffing, getting the fighters ready and in place for their next bout (affectionately known as runners because that's what they do all day) our wonderful medics and of course; the people who set the entire day up (hall hire, rule sets, trophies & medals) we cannot run tournaments without you! Thank you for all your help guys! Our school is richer because of the time you give

15.01.2022 And the results are in! After a gargantuan day of fighting we have our winners! Congrats to Knuckles, Coby, Pat, and Matt for prevailing after an outrageous onslaught of formidable fighters. Footage will be up soon, keep an eye out. Huge thanks to our support staff, and those who came along to spectate and support our crew!

15.01.2022 If you've ever wanted to learn HEMA, we have spaces available for Tuesday night single sword. Get in touch to let us know you're coming down and we'll see you at 6:30pm at Charles Riley Reserve, North Beach!

15.01.2022 Are you ready to longswooooooord!!!!!!! 30mins until kick off

15.01.2022 If you love swordplay and Christmas, then this is the event for you! Combat demonstrations filled with medieval mayhem and Victorian valour will abound at St Patrick's Mt Lawley's Christmas in July medieval longtable feast - Friday July 24. Our members will be performing throughout the evening, dazzling the audience with one-on-one displays of skill, group melee's to the last man standing, and even a grudge match or two... Get your tickets at https://www.trybooking.com/book/...event?eid=616145 - see you there! Photo: Johannes Reinhart

14.01.2022 It's a good day to grab your longsword and head to training!

14.01.2022 With footwork squared away it was time to get swords in the hands of our longsword intake students. How awesome does everyone look?

13.01.2022 Congratulations to our graduating Longsword intake for Spring 2020! You guys covered a lot of information over the past few weeks and judging by the amount of laughter heard over the duration of the course we trust you had fun It's been great to see some of you in Thursday's class already!!!

13.01.2022 Thank you to everyone who took part in the caption comp. Congrats Luke Duncan We loved your caption!!

13.01.2022 What HEMA training really looks like

12.01.2022 Come at me, Fiorists.

12.01.2022 Worth keeping in mind at all times.

12.01.2022 Thinking about branching out and adding this style to our syllabus - what do you think?

11.01.2022 A perfect thrust from Toby! Looking forward to seeing some great fencing on Sunday at the UMHA sword tournament

10.01.2022 If you've been thinking of trying HEMA, today is the day to grab the ram by the horns and get down to training! We have spots available for Tuesday nights so get in touch now!

10.01.2022 Accurate? Accurate.

10.01.2022 Each quarter, UMHA holds club tournaments for the different weapon we teach to give students an opportunity to put the months of drills & sparring into practice and to prepare them for fighting in a competitive environment. Congratulations to all who competed!!!

10.01.2022 Last night we held a grading session, and had 5 candidates challenging for higher ranks. After a gruelling 90 minute theoretical and practical assessment of their knowledge and skills, all 5 prevailed and successfully attained their next rank. Ursa Major welcomes Jacinta, Joshua, and Matt to the rank of Fighter; and Luke and Daniel to the rank of Journeyman. Please join us in congratulating Jacinta, Joshua, Matt, Luke, and Daniel - it was a great show of confidence and capability, and these members have demonstrated their commitment to their art.

09.01.2022 Being a good training partner is really important. So here's a little thank you to all those who don't mind slowing a technique down until it makes sense, who let us know when and what we did wrong, for passing on their knowledge so we learn and most importantly - for coming to training so we can hit each other with swords!!

09.01.2022 It's a great morning to be holding a sword tournament. We have 6 fighters competing for the UMHA sword trophy, who is going to take this bad boy home?

09.01.2022 These guys are getting ready to fight on the weekend in the UMHA Longsword tournament! Good luck to Steven, Coby, Jacinta, Luke, Dan, Matt, Knuckles, Pat, Hasen and David!!!!!

09.01.2022 Thanks to everyone who came along to our first longsword intake! It was a perfect day and we can't wait to show you what's in store this Saturday

08.01.2022 The truth hurts as much as a clean absetzen.

08.01.2022 It's been a while since we've given messer some love

07.01.2022 2020 was nearly a year without our medieval incursion days where we bring the magic of medieval mayhem to year 8 students across Perth. Thanks to Wesley College Perth for an amazing day! Looking forward to seeing you again in 2021!

06.01.2022 We're more than halfway through the Spring Longsword Intake and everything is starting to come together! Footwork - check Blocking with the sword - check Looking bad arse with a feder - oh yeah, check!

05.01.2022 Just 1 more day until Thursday!!! Why is that exciting you ask? Well, it's just 1 more sleep until longsword day at UMHA!

05.01.2022 Another beautiful morning at the UMHA longsword intake.

04.01.2022 We want to say a massive thank you to St Patrick's Mt Lawley for having us along to provide some entertainment at their Christmas in July event on Friday night! We had an amazing time and we hope your guests did too! Many thanks to B&G Photography for the great pics, too! See you next year, lords and ladies!

04.01.2022 We were delighted to be approached by the organisers of the medieval feast at St Patrick's Mt Lawley. They join other community groups such as York Medieval Fayre and the Dolphin Discovery Centre to bring sword fighting and fundraising together Over $7,000 was raised at this feast which will go towards repairing the roof. https://perthvoiceinteractive.com//altarcation-at-st-pats/

04.01.2022 It's with great pride that we introduce the graduating class of the Winter Longsword intake. Congrats guys, you smashed through an amazing amount of content and handled it really well. It's been great to see you putting those new skills into practice at training on Thursdays too!

03.01.2022 Thanks for having us folks - we hope you enjoyed the day as much as we did!

03.01.2022 The results are in! What a cracker day of fights - congrats to our winners! The indomitable David takes out first place, followed closely by Dashing Dan in second, Ben secured third, and last but not least, Toby in fourth. Join us in November for our longsword tournament!

03.01.2022 Our spring longsword intake starts at the end of September! If you've already gotten in touch about it we've sent you an email with details, so check your inbox. If you want to get stuck in PM us your email address and we'll send you the details.

02.01.2022 We've just been told that our enquiry webform at ursamajorhema.com was broken - sorry about that! If you've sent us something and not heard back, we probably didn't get your email. It should all be working now, but you can also reach us via facebook message and email. Happy swording!

02.01.2022 Tournaments cannot run without the help of our amazing volunteers. A huge thank you to Andrew, Chloe, Kobe, Jacinta, Luke, Charlie, Jim and Thomas for your helping with scoring, timekeeping, organizing fighters, lines-manning, reffing, media, first aid and all of the other small things that go into a smooth running event!