Higgins Armory Demonstrations

The Higgins Armory Guild will present 5 half-hour demonstrations on Saturday, January 22nd from 10AM thru 12:30PM in the Terrace Room. In order, these will be:

Medieval Dagger: Fighting in the Middle Ages could be brutal, and never more so than when combatants faced each other armed only with daggers. See the skills needed to survive a medieval knife fight, as taught in contemporary combat manuals and presented by the HASG.

Renaissance Rapier and Dagger: Watch the most romantic of swords in action! The rapier is the best known of swords, making its appearance in everything from Shakespeare to swashbuckler movies. In this presentation, the HASG revives the lost art of its use as described in one of the earliest systematic manuals of the rapier.

Medieval Combat: Have at you! Witness the subtle skills of attack, parry, and grapple, as the knightly arts of the falchion, halberd, dagger, and sword and buckler are brought to life from forgotten medieval manuscripts in this presentation by the HASG.

Swordplay through the Ages: The sword was the weapon par excellence for hundreds of years, and the symbol of nobility and might. During that time its techniques changed dramatically. From the subtleties of the knightly longsword to the simplicity of the military saber, watch the HASG demonstrate authentic swordplay styles, taken from surviving manuals.

Armored Combat: See the clash of fully-armored knights as they would have fought in the Middle Ages! Hollywood's images of armored combat rely on made-up moves and special effects. Watch as the HASG presents the actual techniques, described in medieval manuals, that knights used in battle. .

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