sword tribe

Qui gladios amant, stultam merdam cum gladiis faciunt

Cross-Style Swordplay Gathering

📅 21 February 2026

🕙 10:00 Start

📍 Rochford Martial Arts Academy

💷 £80 per participant (Only 20 places!)

A safe space for people who should really know better by now.

Join us for a full-day collision of Japanese, European, and Chinese swordsmanship - three workshops, open-mat sparring, random-weapon carnage, and a pub run for anyone who can still walk.

This isn’t theory. This isn’t polite form work. This is pressure-testing, skill-stealing, pattern-breaking swordplay with people who live for this stuff.

What the Day Includes:

Three Workshops. Three instructors. Three traditions. Three completely different ways of solving the same problem: how to hit someone who’s trying to hit you back.

You’ll come away with fresh tactics, sharpened skills, and at least one new thing you immediately want to go home and drill.

Open Mat Sparring

After the workshops, the floor opens up.


Test ideas. Swap weapons. Try techniques you’ve just learned against someone who definitely didn’t learn the same thing.

Borrow a mate’s favourite blade and see if you can land anything with it. This is where the good stuff happens.

Spin-the-Wheel Weapon Chaos

The day ends with controlled stupidity:

Spin the wheel → get the weapon it hands you → adapt or get clattered.

It’s unpredictable, tactical, messy, and an excellent reminder that no plan survives contact with a randomiser.

Pub Aftermath

After the last blade is sheathed and the final bruise is forming nicely, we’ll head to the pub to celebrate poor decisions, good hits, and the strange friendships only forged when someone’s tried to batter you an hour earlier.

Who This Is For

Not beginners.

You’ll need:

  • Experience in a legitimate sword system

  • Full contact swordplay gear

  • A love of pressure-testing ideas

  • The ability to laugh at yourself when something doesn’t work

  • As many weapons as you can (legally) carry - the more variety, the better

Claim Your Spot Before Someone Less Stable Does

If this sounds like your idea of a perfect Saturday, grab your spot now. Events like this only work when the right kind of people turn up - the ones who train hard, think deeply, and still make questionable choices with swords for fun. If that’s you, get booked in.

About
Sword tribe

We are the Sword Tribe.

Qui gladios amant, stultam merdam cum gladiis faciunt.

"Those who love swords, do stupid shit with swords."


This is our oath, our banner, and our inside joke.

Across traditions, across time, across steel and wood —
we gather not to polish myths, but to cross blades, share scars,
and laugh louder than the clang of steel.

Our quest is simple:

  • To keep the spirit of swordplay alive.
    We don’t worship dusty forms or historical trivia — we keep it moving, living, and real.

  • To test our arts with sweat, laughter, and the occasional bruise.
    Every clash teaches something, even if it’s “maybe don’t do that again.”

  • To unite warriors, nerds, scholars, and madmen together under one edge.
    No politics, no ego — just blades, banter, and shared obsession.

The Way of the Tribe

In our Tribe, rivalry builds respect, and respect builds family.

No matter your style - Jian, Rapier, Katana, Longsword, Sabre -
if you bring your blade and your humour, you belong.

And in this stupidity,
we find something eternal.

Join the Madness

Follow our gatherings, tournaments, and multi-style events around the world.


Train, clash, learn, and laugh with sword lovers from every tradition.

Because if you’re one of us,
you already know -

we do stupid shit with swords.

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