Lecturers 2024
This year´s lecturers
Jan Balicz a Petr Šišma
BladeBros fencing team from Prague and Olomouc, which was formed at the beginning of 2023 from former members of the fencing goup Adorea. We are dedicated to historical European martial arts and to transferring of the individual techniques to the stage and to the front of the camera. We also act as stuntmen for the Filmka Team.
Zdeněk Brýdl
MY name is Zdeněk Brýdl, I am 3rd in the world in HEMA, I founded the Brno Fencers club, which I am also the leader of. This club has already trained 25 tournament-successful fencers, including 6 medalists. I have been fencing for 18 years and lead seminars attended by the majority of medal-winning fencers from the Czech Republic and Slovakia.
Marcus Eccarius
Vít Hrachový
Society of historical fencing Au jège
We are engaging in regular training in the European art of fighting with any cold weapons.
We practice with cold weapon replicas for good technique and with plastic swords, shinai and cords with sports blades for speed. Once every six months, we organize sparring seminars open to any martial art with weapons, attended by fighters from Magisterium, Escrima, Filipino Kali, Kendo, Kobudo, Tai-ti, etc.
The training sessions are at least twice a week in the center of Prague (I.P. Pavlova) and, if interested, weekend seminars are also organized in the field and in the gym.
The teaching is individual, based on the Italian schools of Giacomo di Grassi and Salvatore Fabris and the fencing book of Joachim Meyer. The system begins with footwork and a one-handed weapon — a fang, a scramasax. It continues with a combination of weapons with a shield and buckler, and an axe.Separately we teach how to fight with the long pole and the spear. Next comes work with rapier, and a combination of two weapons — dusak, rapiers, rapier and dagger. The basics of fighting with cloak and net, baton and long ax are practiced.
What unites us is the love for cold weapons and the desire to develop the art of using them — even for real self-defense. We train fencing primarily as a martial art.
We also offer the possibility of organizing intensive training seminars in Prague, at request also outside Prague.
The school is open to new applicants throughout the year.
Richard Pokorný
Sports fencing coach, graduate of Trainer's A license at FTVS UK, specializing in sports fencing. Former senior representative in cord fencing, medalist from the EC and WC teams. He started fencing in 2001 as a protégé of Karel Anderle (The Musketeers and Bandits) and in his career he also worked with Jan Miň (Dominik). In the past, he was engaged not only in sport fencing with all weapons, but also in scenic and historical fencing. He currently works as a freelance coach and trains junior fencers. He also runs a semester course in fencing for the Faculty of Arts at the Charles University. He founded his own fencing studio called Cyrano's Academy, where he organizes fencing workshops, individual training and fencing courses for competitors and the public.
Kryštof Šámal
Has been engaging with fencing since around 2007, better known for his career as a reenactor focusing on the late Middle Ages - as a participant in tournaments and battle reenactments, he frequently attends events both in the Czech republic and abroad. Through this, he came to learn to fight in armor, i.e. harnischfechten, which he is currently intensively engaged in, trying to translate historical manuals and then interpret them during training practice.
Jiří Trnka
I've been around fencing since 2006, but that doesn't mean anything at all. As far as I know, no one else is doing this on purpose. In the Manus Regis group, we have been applying this approach for several years (I dare say successfully). The reason is that the answer to the first three questions is 3 times yes for us. Plus fencing improvisation brings us a deeper experience when performing on stage. If you are interested, come and try it, we are looking forward to it.
Martin Tureček
Born in 1979, one of the founders of Adorea swordsmen Olomouc and an artistic director.
Fencing since 1996. I trained with master Peter Koza - Magisterium and I have achieved a master level from the German and Italian schools of fencing. I work with the agency Merlet and stunt team Filmka. I am a member of the Paridon sword school. My job is being a swordsman and a stuntman.
Vojtěch Vrobel
Engaged in fencing since 2004, the current leader of the Pilsen group Invictum, a lecturer of stage fencing at the Švandovo Theater. He began to dive deeper into fencing as a self-taught student around 2009. One-time and long-term teachers: Roman Vaverka, Petr Endl, Petr Nůsek, Libor Vrba, Anton Kohutovič, Vít Hrachový, Martin Tureček, Pavel Plch Ml., Kamil Hozák, Zdeněk Utišil and others . Other education includes the study of Bujinkan Budo Taijutsu under Pavel Vondrovic, Roman Kurec and Luboš Pokorný. A graduate of the Systema martial arts workshops led by Yegor Funtikov and Andrei Karimov. In 2017, he founded the fencing club in Pilsen under the name Invictum. Has experience from film, theater, and foreign live shows.
Robert Waschka
Fencing since 1977. HEMA since 1983. Kengido sensei Tetsuro Shimaguchi since 2019. At 500 events connected with the use of real techniques for the world of nerds and gamers. Author of the combat system and motion capture choreography Kingdom Come: Deliverance, mocap implementation. JUFA's external advisor for cooperation with the AČR and PČR on the VR of the education system. Fencing instructor since 1984. Choice of education: 2010–1986: completion of a series of stage fight workshops (approx. 20 courses); Magisterium school, master Peter Koza, also saber, baton; lecturer Z. Sawicki, Poland, stage combat P. Endl; youth training center, Zbrojovka Brno, O. Taraba, Spanish fencing schools; Lecturer D. Rawling; London Longsword Academy, Fang, Wrestling, Longsword, Dagger, Polearm; lecturer Mgr. Petr Žákovský, Italian school Mgr. Petr Vytopil, stage fight choreography P. Nůsek and others.
Own and guest projects - live stage over 1000 presentations, film experience since 1988, from roles such as supporting roles, stunt: Senso, France, with Werner Schreyer in the lead role, the film was awarded the Grand Prize at the International Historic Film Festival; coordinator of stunts and stage fight Četnické humoresky I. and II. Author of dozens of plays and several hundred choreographies. 2011-2002: reporter, jury member; international show of theaters in Kopřiva, Kopřivnice.
Formal education – second degree, major literary drama, ZUŠ Brno Antonínská, degree Mgr. physics, pedagogy, psychology MU Brno.