Malta Historical Fencing Association

We would like to wish all our friends a great holiday season and a great new year full of fencing fun!
From all of us of Malta Historical Fencing Association

We are again offering some Art Prints for SALE!
We have our NEW 2025 design at the price of 10euro.
We also re-printed a few of last year's popular Te****le design, also for 10euro.

There are also still a handful of sets of the most favourite designs of past events, now with the added 2025 design. So in a set you get 6 Art Prints for just 50euro.

All these designs are created by our very own instructor & artist Andrei Xuereb. They are printed on A3 size high quality paper.

If you would like to reserve a set please write a comment here below.

Looking forward to seeing you here with us in a few days

We are tirelessly preparing for the workshop at our November International meeting. 😁

We recently came back from SabreSlash 2025 in Prague, an annual International event focusing on the practice of Sabre. It was a really well organised event and full of very interesting workshops.

The first day started with a very interesting workshop by French Maître d'armes Jean-François Gilles. The lesson was titled “Introduction to the French Contre-Pointe”. A very challenging class on timing, distance and agile reactions.

In the afternoon our Master at arms Andrei Xuereb gave a workshop titled " The use of the 'pie fermo' during our fight“. A workshop inspired by the teachings of Master Giuseppe Radelli on using the leaning of the body as part of your fencing.

The second day started with Italian FISAS teacher Franco Burberi with his lesson titled “ Sforzo di Cambiamento (changing of the line of engagement)“. The workshops forced on the practical use of certain kinds of beats on the opponent's blade to gain an advantage.

The next workshop was held by instructor Master at arms Leonard Marynowski, from Signum Polonicum Wrocław, Poland, titled “Fighting in the 17th century Polish Winged Hussars Armour“. It was a very interesting and fun class where everybody tried some techniques of how you would fight if you were on horseback with the sabre.

The last workshop of the weekend was held by the newly appointed Master at arms Jim Emmons from Barbasetti Military Sabre. His workshop titled “Barbasetti’s Strategies for Offense”. It was a very academic oriented workshop that focused on certain important foundations of both strategy and reactions.

At the end of the event there was a newly tested kind of tournament called 'Random Slash' designed to fight as many people as you can in rotation with the person getting hit only once. The hits were marked with a red tape so that at the end of the event one can see how many hits they got. The participants seemed to enjoy it as well as hopefully teach them a bit more to defend well, realizing how easy it is to get hit if this was a real sharp sabre.

We would like to thank the organizer Master at arms Michael Knazko from the Barbasetti Military Sabre in Prague for inviting us to take part and for all the hard work to set up this event, as well as all the people who worked behind the scenes.

Thank you all to those who visited us yesterday at our annual public fencing demo of the 8th September celebrations. Well done to all MHFA members who took part.
It was hot but we had fun doing what we love. Here are some photos.

We're fully booked for the meeting!

Thank you all for the amazing response! In order to ensure that all attendees have a safe and comfortable space to fence and practice, we have had to close off the bookings at this time.

If you have not registered yet but would still like to do so, we will be keeping a waiting list in case any spaces open up. However, please be aware that we cannot guarantee a booking.

If you have previously registered but have not received a confirmation email, please let us know!

This event is open to MHFA members and members of international Historical Fencing groups who share our same code of practice.

SAVE THE DATES!
Our 14th Malta Historical Fencing International Meeting is booked from Friday 21st to Monday 24th November 2025, in Fort St Angelo. Vittoriosa ( Birgu ) Malta!

Preparations are on their way. From our line-up of top teachers in different styles and weapons to a varied programme with lots of time to fence and socialize.

More detailed updates will be out later on in the coming weeks.
In the meantime ...SAVE THE DATES!

We look forward to seeing you all this year.

Today 15th July, marks the 20th anniversary from the founding of Mithras Sword Fight Club in 2005 and later on with the founding of the Malta Historical Fencing Association.

This also means 20 years of Historical Fencing in Malta.

We wish to thank all those who somehow or other were part of this awesome journey. From the many students who passed through our door and to all those teachers and collaborators who inspired us and shared their life's work with us through all these years.

A big CHEERS to 20 more years ahead!

We're back from Rapier Vienna 2025. An event organized by our friends of Sprezzatura. The whole event was very well organized, with very interesting workshops ranging from Sidesword to Smallsword and of course Rapier. There was also a lot of chances to free fence with many participants in a very friendly atmosphere.

We also had some time for some sight seeing in the beautiful Vienna and a tour of the city was kindly organized by our hosts.

We'd like again to thank the organizers for a wonderful event.
We shall certainly come back again.

https://www.rapiervienna.at/
https://www.facebook.com/sprezzatura.fechten