A form of ancient melee martial arts that is recreated from historical sources such as texts, images, and oral tradition. In other words, historical fencing is an attempt to revive martial arts, the traditions of which have not been preserved to this day. Basically, the term "historical fencing" refers to types of melee weapons that existed before the heyday of the three classic sports blades - rapiers, epee and sabers. In recent years, as a result of the huge interest in martial arts and historical heritage, many individuals and organizations are trying to recreate the ancient martial arts.

Historical fencing in Paladin.

Our hall is named after the famous fencing club "Paladin", which has existed for over 10 years. In early 2002, a number of fighters separated from him, who organized their own club called "Bayard", which soon became generally recognized as the best club in Russia, Europe and the CIS in terms of the tournament component of historical fencing. The fighters of this club from year to year win almost all the tournaments in which they participate. Moreover, almost all Bayard participants work as trainers at FFC Paladin. Thus, FFC Paladin has the strongest coaching school in this sport in the world, which we are very proud of.

Classes are held in the hall

Coach - Ivan Vasiliev

Experience in historical fencing - since 1999. Multiple winner and prize-winner of various regional, Russian and international HMB tournaments (both in fights and in group fights). Two-time winner of the "Battle of the Nations" tournament. One of the authors of the concept of professional full-contact medieval fights ("professional fights") - one of the most spectacular and tough types of historical fencing. He won many victories in the professional ring. One of the founders of the club IF "Bayard". He has an official diploma of higher sports education. Coaching experience in historical fencing - since 2003.

Coach - Mikhail Babynin

An excellent fighter and trainer, knows more than others about the theory of fencing, the author of the concept of "two strikes", a participant in the "Battle of the Nations" and various tournaments, writes a bestseller about historical fencing. Sports past - sports fencing.

general information:

• Club "Blade and Vine" teaches historical fencing - fencing with bladed weapons that have analogues in the past. Training is divided into several areas: fitness fencing, historical fencing (including the history of the costume), cutting targets.
• Our club combines the directions of complex reconstruction, which means complete immersion in the era (VII-XII and XVII centuries). As a bonus - training in horseback riding, archery and seamanship on the road (participants choose the region themselves).
• Since 2018, we have begun to study the traditions of historical European martial arts (HEMA).
• We are members of the Sports Sword Federation. We conduct classes for children on soft weapons.
• Clothing for training in the gym - sportswear. On club trips - according to the era for which the trip is organized.

We train in areas:

• Classic fencing with one weapon.
• Sword and doug.
• Sword and shield.
• Ax and shield.
• Spear / brodex.
• Sword / saber.
• Long sword.
• Dueling fencing.
• Teamwork (triples, fives).

Club city: Moscow.

Year of foundation: 2010.

Supervisor: Pavlyukova Ekaterina Dmitrievna.

Instructor staff People: Alexey Pavlyukov (since 2009), Alexander Kamshilin (since 2008), Ekaterina Pavlyukova (since 2009).

Conducted tournaments and events:

• Annual festival of historical reconstruction for the early Middle Ages "Varangian Sails": boat fights, training in maritime affairs, participation in the reconstruction of the Baltic rite "Creation of the World" (2015-2018).
• Annual inter-epochal festival of historical reconstruction "Helga": combat program, organization of throwing shooting galleries and trade, refereeing (2014-2018).
• Tournaments of historical fencing "Holmgang" (2016).
• Cutting tournaments on replica bladed weapons "Singing Blade" (2016-2017).
• Annual festival of historical reconstruction for the early Middle Ages "Heroic Power": refereeing, organizing a tournament within the framework of the festival (2013, 2015-2016).
• Annual festival of historical reconstruction "Gnezdovo": organization of throwing galleries, organization and holding of master classes, judging (2013-2016).
• Annual festival of historical reconstruction "Original Rus'": organization and holding of the tournament within the framework of the festival, judging (2016).
• Annual festival of historical reconstruction "Byliny Bereg": demonstration performances and master classes in logging, organization of throwing shooting galleries (knives, axes, sulits), refereeing, boat team (2015-2016).
• Annual festival of historical reconstruction "Rusborg": demonstration performances with an equestrian program (2016).
• International exhibition "Blade - traditions and modernity", "Blade on the Neva", knife exhibitions in Moscow and St. Petersburg: demonstration performances in fencing and cutting, master classes in cutting, (2016-2019).
• Annual international exhibition "Equestrian Russia" in the CSC "Bitsa": demonstration equestrian program (2016).
• Closed Cavalry competitions KSK "Atamanets" (2015).

Don't attack! Don't go back! Don't take protection! Don't counterattack! Don't fail! Do not put your straight hand!
- But what to do?
- Fencing!

Additional Information

• Former name of the club: SKIR "Khoroyar".
• For fencing, we use mass-sized (not sharpened) copies of historical weapons. The fencing technique is restored according to historical manuscripts and fencing books. Fencing takes place in analogues of historical costumes with the obligatory correspondence to the swordsman's weapons.
• Our club took part in the filming of fencing scenes for clips of musical groups: Imperial Age (participation), Rarog "Trouble" (participation and staging), Kalevala "Nagryanuli" (participation and staging of fencing scenes).

Contacts:

• Club workshop and interview with candidates: st. Olkhovskaya, 14, building 4, room 13 M (m. Baumanskaya / m. Krasnoselskaya).
• Training hall address: st. Nizhnyaya Krasnoselskaya, 35, building K (m. Baumanskaya / m. Krasnoselskaya).
• To sign up for the first training, fill out the form in the VKontakte group:

Fencing in Moscow - an overview of various areas

Today in Moscow there is a fairly significant stratum of different schools of fencing in a variety of areas.

The bulk of today's fencing schools in Moscow are occupied by clubs and schools of knife fighting. In general, this is understandable. By itself, knife fighting is one of the most popular areas of fencing, in demand at the household level.

Everyone wants to be able to wield a knife. Everyone cherishes the blue dream of planting a gopnik in a dark alley, but someone cherishes the dream of planting a decent citizen and his “sworn friend” on a knife, by the way, there are quite a few of them. They all go to knife fighting schools. The main schools of knife fighting in Moscow are, in fact, people from hand-to-hand combat.

That is, their technique is just a modernized version of hand-to-hand combat, when instead of a fist or a boxing glove, you have
hand knife. What is the risk? But what. It's no secret for connoisseurs that hand-to-hand combat and knife fighting are very different things. Different in everything, in the stance, in the technique of impact, in the muscles involved during the impact, in the movements, in the ideology of the fight, finally. What is acceptable for hand-to-hand combat is completely unacceptable for knife combat. Knife fight professes one exact blow. This is an axiom.

If you run in and try to stab a person with ten blows, then you are almost 100% guaranteed to get at least one blow, but in return. And the problem with the knife is that even one missed blow can often be fatal. Consequently, the basis of a knife fight is an instant entry, defeat, and no less instant exit, everything else is nonsense, leading to mutual defeat, which is not only undesirable, but similar to death in the most direct sense.

Katana Club adheres to the technique of only pure defeat, with maximum safety for ourselves - this is what makes us strikingly different from other knife fighting schools in Moscow, and in general from fencing schools in Moscow.

The second point, or rather the curse of knife fighting in Moscow, is the tournaments.

That is, like all stupidity, they were conceived as a test of the strength and dexterity of the participants, and how all stupidity reached the apogee of stupidity in a couple of years. Their rules are designed for a tournament, and not for a real fight on the street, which instructors usually talk about beautifully, enticing beginners.

It's no secret that the rules of the tournaments are as far from real combat as Jupiter is from the Earth. Tournament rules of most clubs in general
they welcome punches and kicks, although in a real knife fight on the street this almost never happens, and the one who foolishly waved his leg receives a guaranteed blow with a knife and loses the fight and often his life.

Tournament rules develop a complete lack of fear of the opponent's blade to the point of debelism - well, still, this is just an imitation of what they are afraid of. As a result, people climb the blade without dismantling the ford, receive multiple blows and inflict themselves, not realizing that in a real battle these are two corpses that fell off each other with holes in the belly.

Another point is the training weapon itself. Short wooden blunt imitations.

This type of training projectile is common in most clubs in Moscow. How bad is that. Well, firstly, the weight and length. The wood is very short and light. If you make it bigger, you need more serious, MUCH more serious protection than just a fencing mask. These are extra expenses not only for participants, but also for clubs, including for the safety of classes. Heavy and long wooden weapons can be easily killed. In the truest sense, I'm not kidding. Or severely mutilate. Even the weapons that are usually available are a danger to the enemy if they hit the neck, stomach, hands, if they are poorly protected. Up to death. If you hit the liver or spleen with all your might with a blunt piece of wood, you certainly will not pierce a person.

But, in addition to a hefty hematoma, he can get a rupture of internal organs and

Die from severe blood loss before the end of the workout. Especially considering that out of sheer bragging, 90% of the participants do not wear protective vests. This is on the one hand. That's enough

It is common practice to weaken the blow at the end point so as not to inadvertently receive a cargo of 200 and a decent term in prison.

On the other hand, low weight and size do not allow you to properly fill your hand while training with such weapons. Some techniques cannot be trained at all with a small knife weight, such as quick blows to the hand. A knife of such a weight distribution and such a weight does not fly forward, although even picking up an ordinary
folding knife you get a very different picture.

Katana Club uses in its training and sparring non-traumatic weight and dimensions of real knives, heavy - from 200 - 250 grams or more, for example Raja 2 or Ontario. Our imitations do not cause injury, although it is quite possible to get a bruise on your fingers if you come to sparring without gloves. All sparring participants must wear protective helmets that protect against shell shock and securely cover their faces and gloves. In addition, women are advised to wear bibs to avoid chest injuries.

This Katana Club approach to training makes it possible not to weaken the blow at its extreme point, for fear of injuring a person, but to strike it with full force. This forms a reflex in a person to ALWAYS hit just like that, hard and cruelly, avoiding smeared blows. Secondly, the real weight distribution allows you to deliver fast, accurate and powerful blows, unlike a light wooden imitation.

Another direction of fencing in Moscow, quite popular, is duel fencing. Here the choice of clubs and schools and directions is very wide. From fencing with two-handed swords, from sabers and broadswords to

Heavy historical swords. All of them have one thing in common - as a rule, weapons made of textolite, weighing more than 1.1 kg, although sometimes there are clubs fencing on steel blades.

The main difference of this direction is its extreme injury risk. The textolite blade, unlike the steel one, is practically
does not bend. They beat them, as a rule, with full force and with all the dope. This type of fencing forces you to have a fairly expensive protective armor, a fencing mask, upgraded, because if you get a direct blow to the face in a standard sports fencing mask, then the result is a cut in the face with a mesh and a broken nose, well, if broken so that you can collect it.

However, protection does not guarantee against minor injuries, such as broken fingers, hematomas from injections, joint injuries, and so on.

One of the most unpleasant phenomena in duel fencing is its terrible isolation from real life. Tournaments that are held for points do not give any real combat skills, moreover, they dilute this skill in a person. In general, everyone knows that the weapon is not real, the blows are not fatal, and in order to earn points, they climb without looking at the enemy's blade. The same picture is repeated as in the knife fight. Even worse. Moreover, the practice that has developed in dueling fencing does not bring almost anything from sports fencing, and in vain, in sports fencing, despite all its embodiment, there is much to learn.

Katana Club in its training takes the best from sports fencing, we try to study the techniques of sports fencing masters and thoughtfully transfer them to heavier weapons.

Fencing in aikido, kendo and other training in katana techniques stands apart.

Unfortunately, today's kendo is very far from real combat swordsmanship. It contains a number of tricks - for example, prohibited

Stabbing blows to the face, no way to retreat during a fight, and much more. Things are not much better in aikido.

From its original version of sword fighting, today's aikido is as far away as heaven from earth. I'm not talking about the fact that sparring with a sword is not practiced in modern aikido. In addition, all these schools do not teach combat with different weapons, developing techniques only for a two-handed sword - a katana, and leaving aside techniques with a short sword and a knife.

Another problem is the armor for the same kendo. Historically, the cost is very high, so today it is a sport for very wealthy people.

In its practice, Katana Club focuses on a thorough study of the practices of oriental martial arts, with different weapons, both with two-handed and one-handed, short and long, unifying and modernizing the classics of sword fighting. Katana Club brings elements from sports fencing into it, which, by the way, have never been used in classical Japanese martial art, but which are most effective.

Another direction is reenactment fencing in Moscow. The undoubted advantage of this fencing is the historical surroundings. There are quite a few cons.

Firstly, these are rather strict restrictions on buhurts (demonstration fights such as a knightly tournament) on the types of blows, weapons, fencing techniques. For example, stabbing blows are prohibited on steel weapons, even with blunt blades, for fear of inflicting cruel
injure, mutilate or even kill the participants.

Secondly, the risk of injury is extremely high. The blades are generally blunt, but they hit with all their heart, so steel armor often does not save either. Often someone gets injured, putting a person out of action for many weeks. Thirdly, even greater isolation from life than dueling fencing. Well, will you ever meet a person dressed in heavy armor in your life?

Unlike these areas, Katana Club, as a fencing school in Moscow, teaches its students such techniques and strikes, which, being aimed at an unarmored opponent, are completely universal in the first place - it doesn’t matter to you what kind of weapon you have in your hands - a stick, a sword, a machete, knife, saber, broadsword or tourist hatchet.

You can successfully defend yourself with ANY weapon. Secondly, all our techniques are applicable for self-defense, and include the entire
an arsenal of blows - both chopping and stabbing. The versatility of muscle movements develops the ability to use any object as a weapon of self-defense. Our techniques are not pretentious, not artificial, which, for example, duel fencing often sins, we use the most effective techniques combining both sports fencing, historical techniques, and techniques from oriental fencing schools, including classics.

In Katana Club you can learn the most effective fighting style, while using different weapons and without relearning separately the techniques of knife fighting, fighting with a machete or a sword - both two-handed and one-handed. After training at the Katana Club, any item will become your weapon, any item in your hands will help you defend yourself on the street.