Prize Playing/Renaissance Martial Arts Demo

ARMA Booth Exhibit Hall

Saturday May 26, 2018 - 5:00 pm to 6:00 pm


As part of our pioneering effort to recover, revive and reclaim the martial arts of Renaissance Europe, the ARMA presents a public "Playing of a Prize." In 16th-century England, students of the famed London fighting guilds were publicly tested for advancement in a martial arts curriculum through an event called a "Prize Fight." Starting in the late 1990s, the ARMA was the first historical fencing organization in more than 200 years to reestablish this unique practice as our fighting arts training program began to earnestly test senior students in the same manner. Come witness this rare opportunity to see an un-armored non-sporting mock combat exhibition where the practitioner must demonstrate skill, control, stamina and true prowess before his fellows and teachers.