How to survive fighting in the heat
Howdy folks! Your friendly neighborhood HEMA medic here, offering some (DISCLAIMER: NOT MEDICAL ADVICE! only educational) advice on how...
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davidrayburn
- Feb 1
- 2 min
HEMA Against Hematomas: Warriors of Ash Helps Fight the National Blood Shortage
This is a public service announcement from your friendly neighborhood HEMA school: The American Red Cross declared a national blood...
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davidrayburn
- Jan 6
- 4 min
Notes from A Salty HEMA Instructor: An Amusing Cautionary Tale
Happy New Year, all! As we finish our holiday-taking and merrymaking, I thought I might regale you with a simultaneous amusing anecdote...
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davidrayburn
- Nov 30, 2023
- 6 min
Notes from A Salty HEMA Instructor: Keeping Your Cool In Combat
Hey there fellow HEMA-ist. If you’re reading this you’re probably hoping to get the scoop on how not to freeze up during sparring. It’s a...
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Ziggy
- Nov 28, 2023
- 4 min
2023: A HEMA Warrior Recap
A look back on the past year for Warriors of Ash, and a look forward to 2024
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Ziggy Lindsey
- Mar 1, 2023
- 3 min
Asheville Get Invaded + Giant Freaking Catapults
It was a tight competition at this year's Festival of Heroes. Were the Warriors of Ash able to defend their title?
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Ziggy Lindsey
- Jan 30, 2023
- 2 min
The Warriors Get Back to Warrioring
Reveling with the Fae + the most exciting news of 2023!
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Ziggy Lindsey
- Apr 19, 2022
- 3 min
Dussacks, and Zornhaus, and Mittels...oh Meyer!
WoA brings home the bacon and how not to lose all your money
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David Rayburn
- Apr 2, 2022
- 5 min
Notes from A Salty HEMA Instructor: The Scheitelhau
Technical analysis on the usefulness of a technique.
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Ziggy
- Mar 8, 2022
- 3 min
To the Victor Goes the Scotch Eggs
Hail Warriors! Well that was fun. Asheville Celtic Festival 2022 was another smashing success, and the Warriors of Ash were proud to be a...
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Ziggy
- Feb 12, 2022
- 2 min
Return of the Mac
Hail warriors! I want to start by saying that there are few who appreciate the winter months more than myself. Snow, hot cocoa, bonfires,...
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Ziggy
- Jan 16, 2022
- 3 min
What a long trip its been......
Hail Warriors! We hope you are staying healthy in mind and body as we ride this Omicron wave. Here’s hoping this is the last one we will...
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Krys
- Jul 28, 2021
- 2 min
COVID policy update
Hail Warriors! Let's have a candid conversation about COVID rising in the area and the delta variant. We will start masking up even...
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Krys
- May 5, 2021
- 5 min
We're Open and We've Missed Ya'll!
Just in time for the lovely spring weather, WoA has opened classes again! We have a LOT of safety precautions in place for these classes,...
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Krys
- Jul 17, 2020
- 1 min
Temporarily Shut Down - July 2020
Due to increasing numbers of COVID19 in our region and for the safety of our students, we have had to make the hard decision to re-shut...
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Krys
- Jun 21, 2020
- 3 min
School Updates June 2020
Our school has a lot of important updates and information. We have been shut down for quite some time due to the pandemic. As we start to...
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Krys
- Jun 21, 2020
- 2 min
Black Lives Matter
The civil rights movement currently taking place is historic and all will be seen for where they stood during this time. We feel a lack...
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Krys
- Mar 3, 2020
- 2 min
Celtic Festival, a New Class, and Our New Patch-holders!
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...
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Krys
- Nov 21, 2019
- 5 min
Tips for New Students
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...
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Krys
- Nov 21, 2019
- 1 min
Festival of Heroes October 2019
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...
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