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Western Arts Practice Partners List

Looking for some one in your area to experience the western martial arts with? Hopefully this page will help you. I am dividing the page by country and State so when it gets filled up it will be a little less troublesome to find what you are looking for. If you wish to be added to this list just send your info to ken_pfrenger@netzero.net and I will get it added ASAP. Do I need to say this is a serious listing of serious martial artists? Well just incase I do...i just did.

CANADA

Johanus Haidner
director@the-aes.org
Location: Edmonton, Alberta, Canada
Interests: unarmed combat, great sword, zweihänder, short swords, long swords, pole-arms, dagger.
Webpage:
The Academy Of European Swordsmanship

KOREA

Thomas Howard
swordsman@mystic-forest.com
Seoul Korea
Interests: Poll Axe, Single/double Sword (rapier and cuttlass), sword and dagger, Boarding Axe, Staff, dagger, chain, and unarmed.
Webpage:
Mystic Forest

UNITED KINGDOM

Rob Lovett
rob_lovett@hotmail.com
Dagenham, East London/Essex UK
Interests: Poll Axe, Longsword, Single Sword, Hand Axe, Shield, Buckler, Staff, Bata, dagger and unarmed.
Webpage:
The Exiles

UNITED STATES

COLORADO

Keith Nelson
fish_doc@hotmail.com
Fort Collins, CO USA
Interests: Unarmed combat traditions, medieval to modern dagger, all forms of stickplay, medieval and cut & thrust swordplay. Just starting with scottish broadsword.

Corey
mrcogeo@hotmail.com
Colorado Springs, CO U.S.A.
Interests: All forms of stickplay, spear, sword and shield. Especially Irish, Scottish generally known as Celtic. Experience with Western and Eastern Martial arts. Not big of stature but big on tenacity!

FLORIDA

Jason Ketcham
joshua1.1_9@netzero.net
Ocala, Florida
Interests: Stave fighting, hand-to-hand, Celtic long sword, Spear, dagger, short sword, long sword. Flail, mace.

NEW YORK

Pete Kautz
petekautz@lightlink.com
Ithaca, NY USA
Interests: Blade Weapons and Unarmed Combat, Medieval through 19th Century American, also Firearms and Modern Training
Webpage:
Alliance Martial Arts

OHIO

Ken Pfrenger
ken_pfrenger@netzero.net
Warren Ohio USA
Interests: Irish Stickplay and folk wrestling, English and Scottish Broadsword, Pugilism, Galloglass, Longsword, Dussack, Wrestling from the British Isles, Slavic Martial traditions, American arts...the list goes on forever
Webpage:
Western Arts
CMARS
Comhraiceoir Bata

Dave Doyle
RDoyle5182@aol.com
Akron Ohio
Interests: Medieval sword, Renaissance & Modern Dagger, Irish Stick Fighting and other forms of Stick Fighting, Arte dell'Abbracciare-Arte della Daga/Marozzo Techniques, Grappling

PENNSYLVANIA

Greg Maroda
ysidro@bellatlantic.net
Pittsburgh, PA USA
Interests: Longsword, cut & thrust swords, dussack, irish stickplay, polearms, and nearly anything else under the sun.
Webpage:
Penn-Ohio Historical European Martial Arts Society

Jeremy Bessee
bobcat4461@yahoo.com
Near Harrisburg PA
Interests: Liberi, Marozzo, Agrippa, etc.

WASHINGTON

Chris Vermeers
whately23@yahoo.com
Seattle Washington USA
Interests: anything irish, anything gaelic, anything insular celtic (incl breton), anything celtic, renaissance fencing, germano-scandinavian styles. exp: beginner, some technique.
Webpage:
Pagan Warrior Spirituality
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