Classes

Member sparring Pass

£5/session
  • ✓Access to our tournament sparring prep classes
  • ✓Steel only
  • ✓Monday Nights
  • ✓Based in East Leake

Non-member class pass

£10/session
  • ✓Full access to our taught or sparring classes for visiting students from other HEMA clubs, or Independants

8-Week Intro Course

£60/one-time

(£7.50 a session!)

  • ✓Block of 8 Lessons at £7.50 per session
  • ✓Designed to get you up to speed with basic weapon handling, training methods and see how you find it!
  • ✓See beginners Tab for more detailed information
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Monthly Membership

£20/month
  • ✓Turn up to as many classes as you want each month
  • ✓Requires full completion of a beginners course, or relevant previous HEMA experience.

Annual Insurance and Membership

£25/year
  • ✓Full named member Insurance with the BMABA
  • ✓Includes advanced Personal Accident cover
  • ✓Allows access to the member's app with additional resources and training material

Taught sessions are on Thursday nights in Chellaston and we now offer sparring classes for experienced students on Monday's in East Leake

All sessions are on a two-week-on and one-week-off basis, get in touch to find the latest one.

No kit needed for new starters, however face and neck protection, and gloves are highly recommended. 

Classes will consist of the first hour of teaching, specific weapon, technique and concept. The second hour will be more free-form, with free-sparring allowed for those with kit.

CLICK HERE for our full Kit recommendations

After roughly 8 weeks of training, and dependant on your kit levels and progress, additional sparring sessions may become available.

 

Sparring Classes & Visitors from other clubs

Steel Sparring

Two people doing steel sparring

If you're coming from another club then we'd highly recommend our Monday night sparring sessions in Easte Leake. This is only for people with full steel kit, so you'll get plenty of fights in.

350N full HEMA kit recommended at a minimum. Most of our fighters use full 800N - 1600N tournament kit.

Synth sparring

If you haven't quite got steel kit just yet, but do have a mask, gloves and a dream, then our Thursday classes will have plenty of other Synthetic Fencers to keep you busy. (We do have a handful of Steel fencers too)

350N HEMA kit recommended at a minimum, that's Mask, Gloves, Gorget. 

You MUST have club insurance either through us OR have a valid insurance via another reputable HEMA club. If you're unsure about your insurance status, get in touch and we'll look at your individual situation.

CLICK HERE for our full Kit recommendations

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East Leake Sparring Class
19:30 - 21:30
Lantern Lane Primary and Nursery School, East Leake
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Chellaston HEMA Session
19:30 - 21:30
St Peters Church Hall Chellaston
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Chellaston HEMA Group

Address
St Peters Church Hall
Chellaston
Derby
DE73 6TS
Parking
Free Parking onsite
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Historical European Martial Arts. This is a catch-all title for many many different disciplines. We train "unarmoured" weapon based fighting. Typically using sources and strategies laid out in Medieval and Renaissance texts. At the Danelaw sparring group we all have different interests in different time-periods and warrior types of the past. So we play with ideas from many different sources. If you're looking to find or build your own style, then your safe with us.
Nope, if you're brand new and just want to see what we do, feel free to drop down to any of our regular sessions or send us a message. If you're coming for sparring, then you need to be part of a HEMA group and have active student insurance. Ask your club leader/instructor for more details on this. Members just get a little discount on their classes is all. Favouritism at it's finest.
British Military Sabre, Longsword, Rapier Dagger, Sword and Shield, Viking Round shield, Sword and Buckler, English Backsword, Polearms and much more. We try to focus on concepts that can be used across weapon sets. This allows for much more flexibility and to help you find your own style. However our instructors have experience with a wide variety of weapons, although we do tend to have favourites! See our instructors page for more
If you're coming to a taught session, then just some comfortable clothing, and practical footwear. Most of us choose to wear shorts and t-shirt, Trainers with some grip would be great. Avoid low-cut tops, as we tuck our neck protection into the neck of the t-shirt to stop swords going underneath. If you're here for sparring, then you'll need at a minimum 350N mask, gorget, and gloves (Red Dragons are seen as a minimum for hand protection). https://danelaw-sparring-group.bmaba.app/#kit-requirements For the full recommendations and requirements
We have everything you'll need to join in our taught classes. If you're sparring, simply bring your favourite weapons! We try to be mostly steels in our sparring clubs, but we all have plenty of synths too. If you're here to learn, we've got everything you'll need. But any extra padding and protections are always welcome. Maybe bring yourself a bottle of water too.
We're not masters, we're a bunch of people who love learning and exploring different sources and perfecting our own styles, with all sorts of weapons. We're here to have a good time, get some good fights in, and make some friends along the way. If that's the kind of group you think you'd like to be part of, then come join us.
It's not risk free, but the regular classes and drills are very low risk. We operate with all of the appropriate equipment and we don't smash each other. You can hope for a couple scrapes and bruises with the basic kit. But that's about it. It's way less taxing than many other martial arts, and the format is very stop-and-start, so you won't just be getting wailed on over and over. Our instructors will catch anyone behaving dangerously and deal with it. So you're safe with us.