Just a gentle reminder that there will be no class on Sunday Dec 27 due to Christmas and to Tome’s son’s baby shower.
Wednesday classes on the 23rd and 30th of December are unaffected. Both will be longsword and abraccare classes.
This front page is seldom updated but there’s still plenty of activity at PHEMAS. Please email either of the contacts and also log into the forums using your REAL NAME! I need to approve every new account and we get a lot of spambots trying to register so if it doesn’t look like a valid person’s name then I’ll probably delete it straight away. If I do delete your registration, email me at christopher -at- phemas.com and we’ll work it out.
Sorry to anyone who may have recently registered in the forums. We’ve been hacked and the admins had to reload from a backup. If your account is missing, please re-register.
Please join me in throwing a huge congratulations to the PHEMAS team representing us in Helsinki these past two weeks. Gradings are announced and the guys did very well.
Yu Sarn, Tome and Anthony all moved up a grade and (at last notice) are working to pass the SESH basic cirriculum. I moved up one grade as well to Senior Free Scholar.
Ken put in a massive effort and has been awarded the rank of Scholar. A well deserved promotion for a valuable member of the PHEMAS team!
Big kudos go to Greg who has managed to grade all the way to Provost. A stunning acheivement and one that will certainly need toasting upon his return!
Finally, we are coming back online. There was an explosion in one of the transorfmers for the data centre in Houstan that hosts this web page and they had to take down all of their power until the fire department gave them the all clear to go back in and repair the damage. Thankfully, nobody was hurt but apparantly, the transformer took out 3 walls in the power room.
Just a friendly reminder to all who might register in the forums. Please use your real name. We get a lot of bots registering bogus accounts so if you registration even looks like it’s a fake handle, your account is likely to be deleted.
Real names only in the forums please. It keeps people polite and honest. 
If you might be curious about PHEMAS and the training we do, come down the the SAFRA Martial Arts Day ‘08 and see our demo. We’ll be displaying Historical European Swordsmanship at 12:45 in the centre ring.
Feel free to drop by our table and have a chat.
Martial Arts Day 08
Venue: SAFRA Tampines -
Multi-Purpose Hall
Time: 11.00 A.M. to 5.00 P.M.
*Free Admission
There have been some inquiries lately that seem to confuse PHEMAS with another group in Singapore. I’d like to make it clear the PHEMAS operates with the syllabis guidance of the School of European Swordsmanship, Helsinki and we are not affiliated in any other way with any group, either local or international.
We do not use any weapon ’simulators’. We use historically accurate training tools under a strict disciplinary structure following the techniques laid down in the manuscripts 600 years ago. We are a serious martial art, we train properly and safely and we enjoy the results.
We are not a sporting or competitive organisation, we are a historical martial art. If you’d like to be involved in reconstructing historical martial arts then feel free to approach us. If you’d prefer a more sporting or competitive approach, then I highly recommend the wonderful people down at Z-fencing who can help you to achieve great heights in that direction. You can find a link to them in our links page.
Thank you for your attention,
Christopher Blakey
President
PHEMAS
The blademaster over at coldweapon.org just threw up a little writeup on PHEMAS. Head on over to coldweapon.org to check it out.
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