Welcome to 2023 everyone! Albeit it is February when I make this post but still very much the start of a fresh new year. In a few months...

What a season this has been, a year of hard work and dedication, training in the list every week, and putting the hours into the gym to...

I’m sure that most of us can remember the first time we saw the fighting in action and had the irresistible desire to join in.

It (buhurt) is the constant challenge if offers us. Everyone has that fight inside them.

On the eve of buhurt camp the Cygnus doctrinaire, Sarah, Cat, Sofie, Steph and Jo congregated in the sacred hall of Sheffield’s Northern...

Far be it from me to be romantic but there is something about Kening Striid. As soon as I stepped out onto its moist fields on Saturday...

Swords of Cygnus at Battle of the Nations 2018 It was a week of firsts. My first trip to Rome, Italy actually, my first international...

The weekend of the 10th March marked the first dedicated women’s training weekend for UK HMB fighters. Once again, the weekend starts...

Swords of Cygnus at Goch Winter Fight Cup Goch Winter Fight Cup. Our first Buhurt League tournament of 2018, the first time Swords of...

Without doubt the Invicta Shield was a superb tournament to kick off the year of buhurt. I don't think anyone can say that with more...

Jo tells of her weekend in the Netherlands training with knights from all over Europe under the guidance of the world’s finest buhurt...

8am 14th October 2017, a grey fog rolls over the Plymouth Cliffs. The vast expanse of neatly mown grass layers the Hoe like icing sugar...