To start things off this year, we had a terrific Celtic Festival attendance on Feb 15th. A sold-out festival and a huge crowd of spectators watching our warr...

Every single person who trains at our schools signs a code of conduct that outlines our expectations for behavior. Like most martial arts, HEMA involves pote...

Note: Edited Jan 15, 2020 to reflect changes in our policies. So you've completed our Beginner's Program, and you are just starting out in HEMA. Here are som...

Curious folk once again creates a fantastic stage for us to host our in-house tournament. We changed things up this year, having heats to compete for the fin...

Let's start with Raleigh Open: An experimental new rule set had the whole crowd on fire. Triangle Sword Guild continues to impress the Piedmont league with t...

Our school does its best to provide affordable access to training for everyone. From school gear, donation-based gear work shops, donated memberships from ge...

The Warriors of Ash school always encourages students to branch out and learn as much as possible. We've had a lot of our students come and express interest ...

The Warriors of Ash have had 2 staple classes that have lasted the test of time since the school's creation: Viking Combat and the ever-popular Longsword Cla...

HEMA is an acronym for Historical European Martial Arts. When the average American thinks of martial arts, they tend to conjure ideas of disciplines from acr...

Continuing with our insider's series, we take a peek into our Sunday classes with Kyle Edwards. These classes are held throughout each month and cover a vari...

You all may have noticed our new addition this year: Gear Building Workshops. These happen at the end of each month most months, and during our normally sche...

We want to be very measured in our words here, and take a serious moment to speak of something heavy and of the utmost importance to us. We are painfully awa...

Our warriors have given it their all these last two weeks with back to back events. Festival of Heroes is an event put together by the group Curious Folk and...

Viking Combat (VC) has been a part of WoA as long as our school has existed. It is 1 of only 2 classes that have stayed with us since WoA's creation, and is ...

We had the honor and pleasure of supporting local youth when a girl scout troop requested we teach them the art of combat! The hard working girls at Troop 29...

I've decided to turn our inside look into the beginner's program into a series -- taking a peek into the kind of classes we offer here at WoA. To start with,...

Our quick post today comes from this amazingly done article by The HEMAists, source linked at the end. In summary of this article, training with a heavier it...

Last year we implemented a beginner's program in which tons of experience, hours, and lesson planning went in to create a step-by-step process into which any...

Kyle Edwards has been a fantastic resource for WoA, and he's generously offered his time to bring some study in other arts of HEMA to our war room. These cla...

We talk about members and memberships a lot, and we'd like to take a moment to show off some of the many benefits for members. 1. The first, and foremost, is...