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COMBATCON 2023 Guest List


Morgana Alba

Morgana Alba is a world-champion circus performer and the owner of Circus Siren Entertainment. With a background in martial arts she has trained st...

Thomas Amoroso

Owner and head instructor at Columbus Saber Academy (CSA) After moving to NYC in 1991, Tom started his adult martial training in ITF Taekwondo und...

Timothy Anderson

Founder of Infiniti Blade Concepts, Guro Tim Anderson began his formal training in edged weapons and JKD Concepts in 1994 while in Va beach Va at L...

Simone Belli

Simone Belli is a stunt performer and national manager on stage combat in FISAC (Italian Federation of Acrobatic & Choreographed Sport) and Fig...

Kathryn Blanche

In addition to writing, Kathryn can be found traveling around the world, working in the theatre, teaching, and indulging her love of martial arts. ...

Robert Brooks

ROB BROOKS has been a pioneer in the revival of Historical European Martial Arts (HEMA) since 1994 and is currently one of only a handful of profes...

Kendra Brown

Kendra Brown is a librarian at a tech company who does independent medieval manuscript research the rest of the time. She previously translated the...

Michael Chidester

Michael Chidester is the Editor-in-Chief of Wiktenauer and, as Director of the Wiktenauer, an officer of the HEMA Alliance. He has been studying hi...

John Crum

John "Pax" Crum has been in martial arts for 34 years, having studied competition, form and combatives systems, and has been practicing HEMA since ...

Anthony De Longis

Anthony has been a performer, teacher / trainer and student of bladed arts from around the world for over 45 years and counting and has created mem...

Dr. Mary De Longis

A bio for Mary De Longis reads like a book on ADHD. A Ph.D. in Cell Biology and Anatomy, Mary spent 16 years in biomedical research before she met ...

Carmine Downey

Carmine Downey has over 40 years in the Martial Arts and formerly served 12 years of active/reserve service in the U.S. Army Special Forces (Green ...

Morgan Ferry

Morgan Ferry has been studying, fighting and teaching martial arts for 46 years. The last 30 years have been focused on martial arts of European or...

Steaphen Fick

Bringing history alive is the passion of Steaphen Fick, founder of the Davenriche European Martial Artes School (DEMAS), located in Santa Clara and...

Christopher Hein

Hein Sensei started training at Aikido of Fresno in 1998, passing his black belt test in 2001 and taking over operation of the school in 2011. A s...

Henry Hill

Martial Arts has been the focal point of Henry M. Hill IV’s life since the age of 13. He started out using martial arts to escape from street life ...

Jordan Hinckley

Jordan Hinckley took his first sword class in January of 1999 and has been studying heavily the 15th century Italian Master Fiore di Liberi for the...

Bobbi HolyOak

Steve Huff

School of Two Swords – Los Angeles Founder and Head Instructor Steven Huff has had a fascination with weapons and martial arts since childhood and ...

Fred Kaye

Sifu Fred Kaye’s martial career spans over 47 years. Mr. Kaye’s martial foundation is in the Asian Japanese and Chinese martial traditions, startin...

Jared Kirby

Jared Kirby has been involved in Combat for Screen & Stage and Western Martial Arts for over 25 years. He teaches in New York City (and the met...

John Lennox

Dr. John Lennox has trained in various forms of combat for over 34 years. He is an instructor with the Historical Martial Study Society, as well as...

Ron Lew

Ron R. Lew Sr. Grand Master, 11th Grade BlackBelt under Cacoy Cañete Doce Pares Worldwide Cebu, Philippines – Eskrima / Eskrido In 1963, he began h...

Russell Mackler

Russell T Mackler has a mixed background in martial arts since the age of 14, and is the 2nd generation inheritor of the Viñas Arnis System from Gr...

Richard Marsden

Richard Marsden is the founder, along with John Patterson, of the Phoenix Society of Historical Swordsmanship. He has HEMA Alliance Instructor Cer...

Roberto Martinez-Loyo

Roberto Martinez-Loyo has studied Western Martial Arts since 2003. As a youngster, he studied Tae Kwon Do for many years, both in Mexico and in Ups...

RJ McKeehan

RJ McKeehan is an internationally recognized cutting expert, fighter, and instructor. He has appeared on Mythbusters and will appear soon on Man at...

Frank Perrin

Frank Perrin is a New England based Historian, Historical Martial Artist and Stunt Performer. He has been involved in all three fields professional...

Thomas Potter

Thomas Potter is an ex soldier who served with the PPCLI for 8 years, mostly in reconnaissance. Upon release from the military he started working i...

Robin John Price

Studied various forms of Martial arts for over fifty years Force Instructor for Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department for 35 years. Krav Maga for...

Robert Redfeather

Robert Redfeather is an Actor and Producer of Native American descent. He is a grandmaster in Martial Arts, specializing as a Combat Knife Advisor ...

Aaron Rieley

I began the study of my chosen traditional Japanese martial art in 1994. Since then I have achieved my 2nd level instructor certificate (out of 5 p...

TIm Ruzicki

Tim Ruzicki is one of the world’s foremost experts in classical British Pugilism, the eighteenth and nineteenth century art of bare-knuckle boxing....

Rick Silver

Rick Silver started his study of martial arts at the age of 5 and began fencing at the age of 11. In 2009 he started a group called Sterling Mercs ...

Da'Mon Stith

Da’Mon the president of the HAMA Association and is a leader in the movement to study Historical African Martial Arts. He is the Chief Instructor a...

Daniel Trout

Dan Trout saw his first bullwhip in 1981 when it flashed across the screen in the opening scene of "Raiders of the Lost Ark," and he's been obsesse...

Claire Wemyss

Claire Wemyss (she/they, pronounced weems) is a passionate student of messer and movement, as well as a coach to adults and youth. Coming from a pl...


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