Bellows Freifechter

High School #HEMA training and study guild at #BFAirfax. #HSHEMA #Meyer #Freifechter #HistoricalFencing #SwordPlay

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First training of the new school year in the books, with a vibrant new crew full of returning students and new ones both!

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Anders L shares some great insights on training youth in historic fencing: https://t.co/FNpwQwp58I #HSHEMA #HEMA #TrainThemUpRight #NextGenerationFencers

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Had a blast running through some long sword basics with the new crew tonight. #HSHEMA #HistoricFencing #LifeLongWellness #BFAirfax #MFFG #Meyer

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Kicked off the new school year with an excellent first night of training last night! New students were attentive, intuitive, and inquisitive! Here’s to a great year! #BFAirfax #HSHEMA #FWSU

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Some great insights from Tiger Mike on the arts we practice: https://t.co/PyPDGBN2dH #HEMA #KdF #Practice #Pedagogy #NeverStopLearning #Liechtenauer #Meyer

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Our regular Thursday training is unfortunately cancelled this week.

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Teacher/Coaching Hack 101: Break things down into their component parts and help your students to pick them up piece by piece and put them back together. #fwsuwellness

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@stickermule comes through once again! And @emptywilliams, for the design itself. Some sweet stickers for the kids studying Historic Fencing at #BFAirfax.

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Keith Farrell discusses the values and merits of studying HEMA in his latest blog entry: https://t.co/MnTtkIIFA0 #HSHEMA #HEMA #Discipline #Value #FWSUHealthySchools #Fitness #SocialWellness #MentalBalance #OpenMinds #Character #StayGrounded

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What a wonderful problem! HEMA is alive and well in Fairfax! https://t.co/KMTsNJjGpm #HSHEMA

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Students learning how to manage distance fencing with dussacks. #HSHEMA #LifeLongLearning #JoachimMeyer https://t.co/o1DkUWoX3U

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One happy face hugger... #HSHEMA

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Great training tonight! Started working through Meyer's The Art of Sword Combat cover to cover. Managed to get through about a page! #HSHEMA

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Congrats to our very own Devyn Borthwhicke on bringing home the bronze in Youth Longsword at #IronGateExhibition2017 yesterday! #HSHEMA

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Just a reminder: training is canceled for tonight. See you next Thursday!

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Of all the problems we could have, running out of feders 4 our beginners class this afternoon is a pretty good one. #HSHEMA #NewYearNewFaces

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On day 7, you could've come and learned historic Fencing techniques! :-) https://t.co/r5kdKdOgjf

[John Tague @jtague252]

Day 8 in a small HS I was able to participate in soccer, drama, student gov...#bfairfax students have the same opportunities #fwsu

[Bellows Freifechter @BalgFreifechter]

We're excited to welcome new members and get back to training this afternoon! See you there! #HSHEMA

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If you're still on the fence thinking about attending and competing at #IGX2017, September 20th is the last day to register. Get into it!