April Fools 2020

Maarten started doing HEMA four years ago at Sumus Soldani: he mainly trains longsword, but also has a soft spot for sword and buckler.

What really got him invested to get serious about HEMA were the tournaments: he has done quite a few of them and even won a couple. He managed to get the 9th rank in last years CSEN rankings.

After a while, he also started teaching and he is now an instructor at Sumus Soldani.

Next to fencing, he also followed teaching studies at college and try to apply what he learned there to HEMA.

Maarten started doing HEMA four years ago at Sumus Soldani: he mainly trains longsword, but also has a soft spot for sword and buckler.

What really got him invested to get serious about HEMA were the tournaments: he has done quite a few of them and even won a couple. He managed to get the 9th rank in last years CSEN rankings.

After a while, he also started teaching and he is now an instructor at Sumus Soldani.

Next to fencing, he also followed teaching studies at college and try to apply what he learned there to HEMA.

Andrea Reggi

Andrea Reggi ha iniziato la sua esperienza schermistica con la Sala d’Arme Achille Marozzo dal 2014 nella zona di Faenza e Forlì.
Il motivo principale che ha avvicinato Andrea alla scherma era una mera curiosità, generata dalle varie storie di duelli e dai racconti dell’epica cavalleresca, per poi tramutarsi in una passione per quello che erano i valori degli uomini del passato e l’arte dei duellanti di un tempo. Principalmente studia e pratica la scherma rinascimentale della scuola Bolognese, con una netta preferenza per le discipline con doppia arma. Numerosi i podi raccolti durante questi anni, ultimi dei quali il bronzo all’Aprils Fools a Torino e l’oro al Totentanz a Reggio Emilia, altrettanto corposa è la sua collezione di premi per lo stile schermistico, tra i quali non ultimo per importanza quello del Campionato Italiano Uisp. In ultimo sta completando il suo percorso di affiancamento nell’insegnamento, iniziato due anni fa sotto la guida di Mattia Skuly. Mattia ci dice di Andrea, senza falsa modestia, che “è un apprezzato schermitore e una delle forze evolutive più brillanti e determinate del panorama schermistico italiano”. “Che gente curiosa, strana, que gagliardi vecchi! Fieri, intolleranti d’ogni freno; capaci di ogni nobile azione, come di qualsiasi brigantesca birbanteria, riboccavano di coraggio; e meraviglioso era in loro il disprezzo per l’esistenza! Che tempi erano quelli!” Jacopo Gelli

Devis Carli

Devis è sempre stato appassionato di spade, cavalleria e arti marziali. Da giovane ha praticato karate, kung fu, thai boxe, scherma olimpica e tiro con arco da campagna, assieme ad altri sport. Mai soddisfatto, ha scoperto il suo vero amore nella scherma storica.
Si è unito alla Sala D’Arme Achille Marozzo nel 2008, e ha concentrato i suoi studi sulle tradizioni italiane Rinascimentali, sia Bolognesi che Fiorentine (anche se preferisce le prime).
Da quel momento in poi si è allenato con varie armi come spada sola, brocchiere, pugnale, rotella, cappa, spada a due mani, ecc. è diventato istruttore nella Sala D’Arme Achille Marozzo nel 2012, è attualmente insegna spada e brocchiero bolognese a San Marino.
Crede fortemente che non possa esistere HEMA senza trattati; quindi cerca sempre di essere il più fedele alle fonti possibile.
Avendo ottenuto i “titoli non ufficiali” di “Italian Blender” e “włoski niedźwiedź”, ha vinto numerosi tornei nazionali e internazionali negli ultimi anni.

Andrea Reggi

Andrea Reggi began his fencing experience with the Sala d’Arme Achille Marozzo in 2014 in Faenza and Forlì. The main reason that brought Andrea to HEMA was a curiosity generated by the narrative about duels and chivalric romance, curiosity that turned into a true passion for old values and the art of duel. He studies and practices the Renaissance fencing of the Bolognese school, with a preference for disciplines with two weapons. Numerous podiums were collected during these years, the last being the bronze at Aprils Fools in Turin and the gold at Totentanz in Reggio Emilia; his collection of awards for the fencing style is just as substantial, including, not least in importance, the one for the Italian Uisp Championship. Lately, he is completing his formation as a fencing teacher, started two years ago under the guidance of Mattia Škulj. Mattia tells us about Andrea, without false modesty, that “he is an appreciated fencer and one of the most brilliant and determined evolutionary forces in the Italian fencing scene”.

“What strange, strange people, those old stalwarts! They are proud, intolerant of any bridle; capable of every noble deed, as of any felonious mischief, they are full of courage; and their contempt for existence was marvelous! What times were those!” translation from Jacopo Gelli

Devis Carli

Devis has always been keen on swords, chivalry and martial arts. During his youth he practiced karate, kung fu, thai boxe, sport fencing and country archery, along many other sports. He could never find his true love, though, until the moment he heard about HEMA.
He joined Sala D’Arme Achille Marozzo in 2008, focusing on Italian Renaissance tradition, both Bolognese and Florentine (albeit preferring the former).
Since then he has been training with various weapons, such as sword alone, sword and buckler, dagger, rotella, cloak, two handed sword, etc.
Devis graduated instructor in Sala D’Arme Achille Marozzo in 2012, he’s currently focusing his studies on Bolognese sword and buckler in San Marino.
He strongly believes there can be no HEMA without historical fencing treatises; therefore, he always tries to be as faithful as possible to the sources when teaching.
Having gained the “unofficial titles” of “Italian Blender” and “włoski niedźwiedź”, he has won various national and international tournaments in the last years.