Where's a good place to use and study historical sword-fighting?

But why waste your time with that? You'll literally never need that in your life.

>>2152925
Why do people waste their time watching sports? When will knowledge of who the Cowboy's top reciever is ever be of knowledge in life?

Because its interesting and keeps me fit and I'll really enjoy the historical aspect of it.

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>>2152921
The Only way to learn "historical"katana is to study a koryu or a school directly decended from a koryu

>>2152921
Most HEMA clubs in my area deal with longswords, saber, sword and buckler and pollaxe at the bare minimum.

the HEMA general is on >>>/asp/
And no, there is no McDojo that offers scimatars and Gladius bullshido yet.

Longsword's just the most popular in Hema, not the only thing they do.
Any halfway decent 'school' or club will also have classes for other european weapons like saber, rapier, sword with buckler etc.

>>2152921
>I know HEMA is good but they seem to focus on Medieval longsword and little else.

HEMA does way more than that. The most common weapons are usually Longsword, Rapier, and Sabre. There are fucking hundreds of treatises for each so they get loads of attention. Stuff like Backswords also has a lot of literature, especially from England & Scotland (there are -fuckloads- of treatises on Scottish Broadsword), so if you're UK you might run into them, or if you're German you might find stuff like Kriegsmessers or Zweihanders, or if you're Italian you might get specialised shit like Montante and Schiavona.

It all depends on the clubs, and to a fair degree the region, because for every weapon from the high mediaeval period onwards you can be guaranteed to find at least some treatises somewhere that discuss it. More often than not this is in the country to which the weapon is native, but you'll find good shit most anywhere if you look hard enough.

Stuff like Gladius fighting is a little different though, because the Gladius was not a sword really designed for personal defence or dueling or with a style of fencing in mind, it was designed exclusively as a military weapon with Roman infantry formations and tactics in mind (as in, the Romans found Iberians using this cool sword that fitted their style perfectly and adapted it). There aren't any authentic treatises on fencing with it, so any attempt at those kinds of weapons is just pure speculation, same goes for most weapons prior to the middle ages.

>>2152921
I went to japan for a katana internship. Best time of my life. My sensei was strict, but helped me reach spiritual calm after vigorous training. Now i'm back in america with my japanese waifu and i teach samurai classes in my own dojo! i highly recommend the experience

>>2154424
>and i teach samurai classes in my own dojo!
Name and location?

What is a samurai internship? You learned from a kenjutsu sensei?

>>2152921
Wouldn't this be a better question for /asp/?

>>2154698
>What is a samurai internship?
No such thing

>>2152921
You want like one place that teach european, japanese, persian and ancient roman historical swordsmanship all in one package? Because I don't think that exist.
HEMA clubs usually teach two to three weapons, it's quite common for legit historical japanese styles to teach the same range of weapons so that you won't only get "long sword and longsword".