Description
Booking for intermediate, advanced, or specialist HEMA sessions at the Vanguard Centre. Booking your place will guarantee you a ticket for the session.
These sessions will focus on more involved, higher complexity or more physically demanding aspects of HEMA. In addition to regular Sunday Sparring, other specialist opportunities like Study Groups, Tournament Training, and Intermediate Workshops will appear in this booking system, with the following exceptions:
- The session on Thursday 5th November 2026 at 7.30pm will feature Sword and Buckler – avoiding doubles
- The Sparring Session on Sunday 8th November 2026 is postponed to the later time of 4.00pm
- The session on Thursday 12th November 2026 at 7.30pm will be a cutting workshop with sharp swords
- The session on Thursday 19th November 2026 at 7.30pm will be feature training games and scenarios for Sabre
- The session on Thursday 26th November 2026 at 7.30pm will be a Rapier study group
- The session on Thursday 3rd December 2026 at 7.30pm will be feature Talhoffer’s Longsword
- The session on Thursday 10th December 2026 at 7.30pm will be feature Messer (TBA)
- The session on Thursday 17th December 2026 at 7.30pm will be feature Sword and Buckler (TBA)
- The Vanguard Centre will be closed, and there will be no scheduled training sessions between 23rd December 2026 and 1st January 2027
You can cancel up to 24 hours before your session in exchange for a refund. However, if you cancel after this, then a refund cannot be guaranteed.
If you have a session pass, then you can tick off boxes by presenting your card at the session after booking through the website and selected the relevant option on the payment screen.
