Our intermediate rapier squad working the basic of arresting against an opponent who hits their feint attack macro. This variation comes straight from Pascha (mid-17th C). Rapier class is Tuesdays at 6pm and 7:30pm in Belmont. #belmontma #arlingtonma #somervillema #bostonsports #bostonfun

Nerding out about 🐴rossfechtan with Megha, queen of the SCA East Kingdom, who is quite the swordswoman herself. These barrel horses are a nice little tool. One day they'll grow heads! 📷 Katelin Pratt ---- #societyforcreativeanachronism #rossfechtan #mysca #historicalfencing

Our classical fencing crew warming up their 🧠 and ⚡️🦵🏻 with a little lunge drill. Fencers must read and react to the glove dropping and explosively push off their back leg to catch it. Drill is easily scaled up and down as needed for the individual. #cambridgema #somervillema #medfordma

Last Pre-Champs training sess with Anezka, focusing on secondary use. So a little rapier and cloak training this afternoon. 🧵 #bostonfencing #cloaktober #rapier #historicaleuropeanmartialarts #historicalfencing

Before the team gets into the theme part of the lesson, we work on a few of our core, foundational actions and wrap it up with a tactical option drill. #bostonfencing #cambridgema #somervillema

Love it when the team works together to learn a new action. Our newest rapier fencers started learning various ways of riposting, including the riposte by disengagement shown here. Teachers teach but it’s the team that truly helps each other learn the movements. Well done! #rapier #massachusetts

Our Sunday classical fencing crew keeping warmups fun with some games. Classical Fencing meets on Sundays at 10:30am at The Foundry in Cambridge. #bostonfencing #cambridgema #somervillema #bostonfun #medfordma

Spring is here! First outdoor training sess of the new season. Working some saber with Eli in prep of Arsenal Assault of Arms this month. #medfordma #historicalfencer #somervillema

Happy International Transgender Day of Visibility to all our fencers, friends, and fam. We know it's (still) crap out there right now. But thank you for being true to who you are. It's powerful and inspiring. Thank you for being you and making this world a fuller, more colorful place. 🏳️‍⚧️✊

Awesome drawing by Ulrich Von Tolstat based on my Musketeer outfit (Mousquetaires du roi). Always love getting these. ---- #musketeer #lestroismousquetaires #reenactment #historicalfencing #17thcentury

Our intermediate rapier folks started integrating their time-thrust counterattack into their compound defense. Here Scott performs one simple parry and then closes the line with a counterthrust to handle Yelena’s feint sequence. Nice work! #belmontma #massachusetts #boston

Last training session with Anezka before Rapier Champs last month. This was where we put it all together — direct attacks, disengagements, feints, renewals, infighting, second intention, etc. 🧵 #rapier #swordwoman #historicalfencer #mysca

Dueling Sword class worked on various ways of attacking after defending ourselves, including the fun riposte by Flanconade of 2nd. Sunday classical fencing class is Sundays in Cambridge, MA. #cambridgema #smallsword #bostonfencing #somervillema

Our intermediate rapier fencers are exploring counterattacks to augment our defensive training block. Here Yel does a time-thrust against a disengagement. When done right, her opponent lunges into her sword. A nice clean hit with minimal effort. Gotta love it. 🧵 #belmontma #massachusetts

This week in classical fencing class, our dueling sworders looked at various ways of riposting from parries. Here the team works on riposting by disengagement, a great way to get around an opponent who counterparries. #smallsword #cambridgema #somervillema #bostonsports #massachusetts

Congrats to our founder @thetavernknight.bsky.social for being awarded with the Award of Benzaiten, given to an individual who demonstrates exceptional skill in teaching within the East Kingdom of the SCA! 📸 Brendan Crane #rapier #historicalfencer #mysca #societyforcreativeanachronism

Never forget: the saber has a point as well as an edge. Don’t forget to thrust, too! 📍 Cambridge Foundry — #cambridgema #bostonfencing #classicalfencing #somervillema #bostonfun

*Snipe* Kaycee working on her hand shots. #bostonfencing #medfordma #rapier #massachusetts #bostonfun

Lantern Fencing: Part I 🔦 Following a few rounds of “night fencing in the dark” I got a crash course in lantern fencing from Marli & Eric of HARP Fencing. 🧵 #rapier #smallsword #historicalfencing #westernmartialarts

Tempted to go out to a local foil club and get my butt kicked by some kids. #italianfoil #classicalfencing

Brendan playing around with a high second guard during open floor time at the end of our classical fencing class. #cambridgema #somervillema #massachusetts

A little look inside our commemorative 5 Year Anniversary logo. Huge thanks to Rachel Creemers who designed it to tell the story of the school’s growth in its first half-decade. Rachel also created the original Academie Shield logo.

Our beginners last month explored the fun of dagger use with the rapier. Here, Edvard works on a simple dagger parry drill in the fashion of Fabris (1606). Our beginner rapier class is Tuesdays at 6pm. Beginner & intermediate is at 7:30pm. #bostonfencing #belmontma #massachusetts #walthamma

Our classical fencing crew getting a little playtime in at the end of class this weekend. 🧵 #bostonfencing #cambridgema #classicalfencing #somervillema #massachusetts

⚜️Fit Check⚜️ Saturday was my last day as Consort’s Arts & Science Champion for the SCA East Kingdom. Decided to end my tenure in style with my Jean de Gassion inspired ensemble. 🧵 #mysca #societyforcreativeanachronism #17thcentury #17thcenturyfashion #reenactment

Fun day at A&S Champs. Was nice to socialize and talk to folks about their various rabbit holes and passion projects. There’s so many cool things out there that folks are doing. It’s really worth hitting up an A&S event and absorbing all the inspiration that’s there. 🧵 #mysca

Beware the Ides of March... #somervillema #bostonfencing #cambridgema #classicalfencing #idesofmarch

Our rapier squad getting a little extra reps in this past weekend. Here they work through a simple tactical option drill — attack by glide or parry & riposte. Thanks to our friend at Athena for letting use their space for a makeup class. #rapier #historicalfencing #somervillema #cambridgema

This week we ran our first free trial class of the year for our Classical Fencing program at @cambridgefoundry! Eight new fencers got a chance at playing with the Italian dueling sword and saber. #cambridgema #massachusetts#somervillema

Rapier team exploring the use of body voids and evasions to defend against an opppnent’s attack. Here Kaycee shows a Girata and Alejandro shows a Passata Sotto. #somervillema #rapier #massachusetts #cambridgma #boston

Happy International Women's Day to this team of swashbucklers and duelists. Couldn't ask for a better squad to train with. #internationalwomensday #swordswoman #womenathlete #Massachusetts #historicalfencing

Academie fencers, don't forget to turn your clocks ahead before bed this evening (assuming you have any analogs laying about). Daylight savings time is here! And with our new 10:30am start time for Sunday, maybe hit the hay early for the extra rest. :D

Picked up some of the dueling swords and a smarra by Yixuan (via swordshop). Tossed on basic dry epee blades from Absolute Fencing. The tang of the epee needs shortening for the smarra but the dueling swords are good to go. #bostonfencing #smallsword #classicalfencing #historicalfencing

Alejandro demonstrating the use of rapier and buckler via Giuseppe Pallavicini (1673). From paper to the real world. #rapier #historicalfencing #massachusetts #arlingtonma #cambridgema

A little dueling sword action in the new digs. Our classical fencing clsss with the Italian foil, dueling sword and saber is Sundays at our new home at Cambridge Foundry, 10:30am-1pm. #cambridgema #classicalfencing #massachusetts #bostonfencing #somervillema

We're excited to dive into our Fifth Anniversary with our Winter/Spring class offerings. www.bostonacademiedarmes.com 🧵 #somervillema #cambridgema #massachusetts #historicalfencing #bostonfun #medfordma #belmontma

Our Classical Fencing class has a new home at the beautiful dancing studio at The Foundry in Cambridge! Learn how to duel and fence with the Italian smallsword, foil and saber. Sundays from 10:30am-1pm #cambridgema #massachusetts #bostonfencing #somervillema #bostonfun

Congrats to Edvard for being inducted into the SCA East Kingdom's Order of the Silver Rapier this weekend! This is the organization's first level rapier award for fencing skill. Nice work! 📸 Casimir Sarkastyczny #mysca #societyforcreativeanachronism #historicalfencing #westernmartialarts

March is Women's History Month! HEMA History is full of interesting women who picked up the blade. From left to right: Walpurgis (from fencing book 1.33); Julie d'Aubigny aka Mademoiselle de Maupin (opera singer turned duelist); Madame de Saint-Baslemont (French writer, soldier, and duelist)

First day in the new digs at The Foundry! Great spot for some classical fencing. #cambridgema #boston #classicalfencing #historicalfencing #westernmartialarts

Say hello to our newest crew of swashbucklers! We are excited to have this group as our first band of rapier fencers at our new, earlier 6pm slot. They’ve dove head first and are a lot of fun to train with. ⚜️⚔️⚔️⚜️ #boston #arlingtonma #rapier #massachusetts #historicalfencing

Our 5 Year Anniversary patches are now here!

Congrats to the team for a fantastic showing at the EK Rapier Champs this weekend! Huge congrats to Jon for winning the tournament & becoming the new King’s Champ! Kate also was stellar, coming in 2nd in her pool & making her second Sweet 16 appearance. #mysca #societyforcreativeanachronism

We had a great time at RASP 2026 this year! Another strong Boston contingent between the SCA and Boston HEMA. Thanks to the RASP organizers and all the provosts and maestri for a great event. Also thanks to the rest of the fencers for the continued camaraderie. 'Till next year!

Our beginners are exploring using various secondaries or offhand weapons alongside the rapier. Here Sam adapts a Fabris dagger guard to the buckler. Our beginner rapier class is in Tuesdays at 6pm and 7:30pm in Belmont, MA. #massachusetts #walthamma #boston #rapier #cambridgema

Dagger month continues for our beginners. Here a couple of our 6pm crew work on a simple option drill during warmups. Their goal is to respond to what their partner does in-time as best they can. Nice work by Jack here! #belmontma #arlingtonma #walthamma #massachusetts #rapier

Our classical fencing class continued to explore actions on the blade with a review of beats and a few ways of defeating beats. In this drill, we assume the opponent landed a successful beat and is attacking direct in earnest. #somervillema #bostonfencing #cambridgema #massachusetts #bostonfun

Our beginner rapier crew working on some dagger-extended & sword-withdrawn guards. Our rapier class is Tuesdays at 6pm @ 7:30pm in Belmont, MA. #belmontma #arlingtonma #rapier #bostonfencing #massachusetts

NEW VIDEO! This one looks at the legendary life of Jean-Louis Michel. Seriously, his life reads like it's straight from a Dumas novel. youtu.be/ywzyJarYnp8?... #blackhistory #smallsword #historicalfencing #westernmartialarts

Our rapier class is back! This time exploring dagger-extended guards while the rapier hangs back. Here, beginner Kaycee works on her crossbody dagger parries in a more Marcellian stance. #rapier #massachusetts #bostonfun