[Greg Mele]

Mark your calendars for September 2014!

The Chicago Swordplay Guild and the DeKoven Foundation – the same team that have brought you WMAW for over a decade – are please to present an event for students in the Noble Art and Science of Defense: The DeKoven School of Arms. After years of attendees decrying a two-year wait between WMAW’s, in 2009 we hosted The 600: Prepare for Fiore – a celebration of the 600th anniversary of the Flower of Battle. This was followed by last year’s Armizare Academy.

In 2014, we turn to the Mediterranean Renaissance and the art of the duel! We now have an (almost) complete class roster up for this three day event - from rapier and dagger to partisan and montante, nearly every aspect for the martial arts of the Renaissance Italy and Iberia are represented. Check it out!

We now have an almost complete class roster up - from rapier and dagger to partisan and montante, nearly every aspect for the martial arts of the Renaissance Italy and Iberia are represented. Check it out!

http://www.chicagoswordplayguild.com/dekoven-...ass-roster

Located at the picturesque DeKoven Center, home to the Western Martial Arts Workshop, the conference is a retreat with attendance limited to the 60 students that DeKoven can host. Your registration fee includes entry, lodging and all nine, hot meals.

This is a unique event and a unique opportunity to train in a private environment with some of the finest modern teachers of the Art of Defense. Act now, because spaces will go fast. We look forward to crossing swords with you!

[Shahril Dzulkifli]

September 2014 - A month not to be missed according to my opinion.