ARMA Director
John Clements
The
world's foremost practitioner
of authentic Chivalric Arts of Defense
Private Training Program
Workshops and full Seminars
available: Contact us with requests and
information on fee and travel schedule. Presentation and lecture
requests are welcome. Private lessons also
available. Special arrangements possible for
video, motion-capture, and CGI modeling.
"Consulting Sword-master"
Advisory and Educational Services:
John Clements provides a range of consulting
services and special information on the culture
and history of Medieval and Renaissance close-combat skills, arms and armor, swordplay, and
historical fencing. Previous project
involvement includes working with: National
Geographic, Sony Pictures, The History Channel,
Fox Television, Six Flags Houston, and major
computer and board game producers. He has done professional consulting for game developers Blizzard, NCsoft, Xaviant, and Go-Time.To improve the historical accuracy and
martial validity of your endeavor, send an e-mail inquiry.
All fees are by negotiation.
Offering Professional
Fight Arrangement and Fencing Stunt-work for
Film, Television, and Motion-Capture: John
Clements
brings an unrivaled mastery of actual historical
combat techniques for creating never-before seen
action featuring a unique spontaneous arrange
fight execution system of martially sound,
historically accurate, visually dynamic, and
physically intense material. Featuring an
authoritative and pioneering program with a
dynamic and highly original alternative outside
the box of current standards, he offers a new
alternative to the dry, over-used cliches of
entertainment industry fight certification.
Ask about the Renaissance Martial Arts Lecture
Series, Homeschooling Program, & Corporate
Outings.
"What we demonstrate
in a presentation is a reconstructed exhibition
of authentic European martial arts skills
delivered not for amusing performance or stunt
display, but education, cultural heritage, and
self improvement." - John Clements
Email the ARMA Director at: theARMA@comcast.net
Instructing
in an unmatched historical curriculum
Arranging
dynamic fight action sequences
Teaching in Italy, 2012
Performing at the World Martial Arts Festival, Korea, 2012
With a !4th Century Warsword, Scotland 2012
Examining an Authentic Two-Handed Sword, Scotland 2012
With a 1000-year-old Viking Ingelri sword
Presenting on Mare at the Kelvingrove Museum, 2012
Reenactment in Narni, Italy 2012
At the World Martial Arts Festival 2012
Lecturing at the University of Bridgeport 2012
Filming with PBS Nova 2011
Teaching in Russia 2011
On National Geographic Channel
2011
At the Medieval Center, Denmark
Researching Rapiers in Italy
At the International Martial
Arts Symposium, 2011
At the Hermitage in St. Petersburg,
Russa, 2011
With Hans Talhoffer's original 1459 fight book in Denmark
At the World Martial Arts
Union, South Korea 2010
Examining historical specimens,
Spain 2009
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Presenting on historical
fighting methods, Portugal 2009 |
Teaching in Europe, 2009
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A
leader in historical fencing studies, reconstructing authentic methods and historical techniques
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Private & class instruction
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Lecture & Seminar
Presentations
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Youth Talks & Demos
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Consulting for the
Sword Manufacturing Industry
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Museum Presentations on Arms
& Armor use (Kienbusch Collection,
Philadelphia 2007
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Evaluating & Testing Historical Fencing Products
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Teaching longsword fencing
in Athens, Greece 2004
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Renaissance swordplay seminar
on longsword in Haifa, Israel 2005
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Longsword technique
presentation
in Gaunajauto, Mexico, 2006.
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Seminar in Mexico City, 2007
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ARMA Seminar
in Athens, Greece 2007
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Inspecting authentic pieces
at the Oakeshot Institute, 2007
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Examining antique
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Practicing in armor at
the Royal Armouries, Leeds UK
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Rapier practice in Europe
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Classroom
Training
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Examining an antique rapier in
Switzerland
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Training with antique blades
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Consultation with noted authority
Dr. S. Anglo
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Meeting with famed sword expert the late
Ewart Oakeshott
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Consulting with the late sword expert
Hank Reinhardt
& swordmaker Paul Chen
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Test-cutting with sharp swords at the
2000 Renaissance Martial Arts Expo
Atlanta
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Workshop Demonstration in Canada
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Examining an original 1536 fencing
text by Achille Marozzo
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Lecturing & instructing in Germany
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Examining a great-sword of c. 1400 at
the Royal Armouries, UK 2001
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Trying out an antique
two-handed sword from c. 1550
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Presentation at the Sarasota Medieval
& Renaissance Studies Conference
2002
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Lecturing at Texas
A&M University 2003
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Examining a 1000-year-old
viking sword
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Examining an original edition
of Fiore dei Liberi's Flos
Duellatorum c.1410
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Demonstrating cuts and
thrusts on raw meat with an actual
antique
16th century swept-hilt rapier
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Lecturing at New York University 2003
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Researching an original 1553
edition
of Agrippa's famed fencing text
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Handling authentic 16th
century swords
in the Swedish Royal Arnory
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Consulting with noted master
swordsmith and researcher Peter
Johnsson
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Hefting a fine 16th century
antique
ring-hilted rapier of the Swedish
Royal Armory
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Exploring the original 1410
Pierpont-Morgan
edition of the "Flos Duellatorum"
fighting manual by Fiore dei Liberi
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Researching swords in
Budapest, Hungary 2004
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Program
at West Point 2003 |
Presentation
Demo at Ashokan Sword 2000 |
Training with an authentic
16th century bastard-sword -
2008
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Every Art has this property of being clear to
those trained in it,
so that thence comes this maxim,
Believe the man who is skilled in his art.
- Anonymous
Parisian theologian, 1398
John
Clements is a leading authority on historical fencing and the worlds foremost instructor of
Medieval and Renaissance fighting methods. As a
long-time
Western martial artist who has been studying historical
fencing since
1980, John is the most prolific writer on the subject of
historical fencing. He has practiced European cut-and-thrust swordplay
and for more than thirty years, taught on it in 16 countries, and researched arms and armor on four continents. He instructs both nationwide as well as internationally and (since 2005) from his one-of-a-kind private facility, Iron
Door Studio, based outside Atlanta, Georgia.
John is featured in PBS Nova's Secrets of the Viking Sword (2012) and performed and directed foot-combat sequences for the
2011 National Geographic Channel documentary, Medieval Fight Book --the first ever television program of its
kind to cover the work of a historical
European Master of Defense. He was also featured
prominently in and co-wrote the 2009
documentary film, Reclaiming the Blade. He also appeared in the documentary special
featurette, "Knights in Training," on the 2008
special edition Blu-Ray re-release of the
film, First
Knight.
He was also the writer and producer of the
first of its kind web
documentary on Renaissance martial arts.
John's writings on
swordsmanship and historical close-combat have
appeared in eleven different published
books since 2001. He was a contributing
author on close combat and fighting arts to The Oxford Encyclopedia of
Medieval Warfare and Military Technology
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