The School of Historical Fencing

The Melbourne HEMA Open has finished!

This was a huge event for the School of Historical Fencing, we had 61 competitors from Australia, New Zealand, Singapore, and Japan, across 3 tournaments: Rapier, Sidesword, and Longsword, each tournament taking a whole day.

We will definitely be running this event again. Keep an eye on our Youtube Channel to see some videos from the comp - they will eventually show up there - https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCnJVZg-Y_UIu5X-1o68I-kg

I would like to thank everyone who helped to run the event. In particular the people who came along to help run or referee or judge even though they weren't fencing: Andrew, Liam, Minh, Dayan, Aidan, Lorne, Tom, Oskarn, Vadim, Michael, Aella, Kale, Greg, Dan, Liam.

Aditionally, Stu for the awesome rules video, and Catherine for hand engraving the medals,

Lastly, I would like thank everyone who refereed: Heather, Hunter, Jack, Stu, Travis, .Anthony, Justin, Minh, Adi, Dan, Katie, Victor, and Woody.

It was a big team and much appreciated! If you helped out and I have missed you, I am sorry.

Winners for the various comps were:

Single Rapier A
1st Travis McKenzie Scholar Victoria
2nd Edward Craig Melbourne Fencing Society
3rd Liam Schofield The School of Historical Fencing

Single Rapier B
1st Ned Brabner Melbourne Messer Club
2nd Victor Ngo Scholar Victoria
3rd Adi Ringma Scholar Victoria

Rapier Masters (50+)
1st Jason Metcalfe The School of Historical Fencing

Rapier Underrepresented Genders
1st Valerie Bright The School of Historical Fencing

Sidesword A
1st Daniel Pope Scholar Victoria
2nd Travis McKenzie Scholar Victoria
3rd Alessandro Contu Scherma Storica VTAA

Sidesword B
1st Anthony Duong Scholar Victoria
2nd Adi Ringma Scholar Victoria
3rd Valerie Bright The School of Historical Fencing

Sidesword Underrepresented Genders
1st Valerie Bright The School of Historical Fencing

Longsword A
1st Travis McKenzie Scholar Victoria
2nd Jack Jones Scholar Victoria
3rd Gindi Wauchope The School of Historical Fencing

Longsword B
1st Isaac King Fechtschule Victoria
2nd Jiacheng Richard Zou Adelaide Sword Academy
3rd Stuart Willis The School of Historical Fencing

Checkout the video briefing for the Melbourne HEMA Open!

MHO 2026 - Rules Summary 00:00:06 - Scoring00:00:46 - Afterblow Timing00:02:00 - Mutual Hi...