SoCal Swordfight 2017 - Tournament Results
SoCal Swordfight 2017 saw 164 individuals register for our Historical European Martial Arts Event, with over 83 electing to participate in various tournaments.
The event hosted 9 individual tournaments along with classes, lectures, vendors and exhibits.
The results of these tournaments can be seen below, and you can dig even deeper into the stats of the event at HEMA Scorecard.
Jason Taylor Memorial Open Steel Longsword Tournament
Gold Medalist - Christopher Ponzillo - South Coast Swords
Silver Medalist - Daniel Zwart - Ann Arbor Sword Club
Bronze Medalist - Tim Magnuson - South Coast Swords
Finalist - Michael Huang - Tosetti Institute of MMA and Fitness
Longsword - Advanced Steel
Gold Medalist - Jonathan Ying - South Coast Swords
Silver Medalist - Jesse Tucker - Blood and Iron Martial Arts, Burnaby
Bronze Medalist - Myles Cupp - South Coast Swords
Finalist - Sean Franklin - Blood and Iron Martial Arts, Burnaby
Longsword - Women's Steel
Gold Medalist - Nicole Smith - Blood and Iron Martial Arts, Burnaby
Silver Medalist - Ksenia Kozhevnikova - Blood and Iron Martial Arts, Burnaby
Bronze Medalist - Brittany Reeves - Blood and Iron Martial Arts, Burnaby
Finalist - Rachel Van Dyke - South Coast Swords
Longsword - Open Synthetic
Gold Medalist - Robert Childs - Black Tigers
Silver Medalist - Dustin Thelen - Black Tigers
Bronze Medalist - David Suh - South Coast Swords
Finalist - Corrigan Cassidy - Blood and Iron Martial Arts, Burnaby
Singlestick
Gold Medalist - John Patterson - Phoenix Society of Historical Swordsmanship
Silver Medalist - Jonathan Ying - South Coast Swords
Bronze Medalist - Clifford Curry - Mordhau Historical Combat
Finalist - Dustin Thelen - Black Tigers
Open Rapier (Optional Dagger)
Gold Medalist - Robert Childs - Black Tigers
Silver Medalist - John Patterson - Phoenix Society of Historical Swordsmanship
Bronze Medalist - Jesse Tucker - Blood and Iron Martial Arts, Burnaby
Finalist - Dashiell Harrison - Swordguild Portland
Sword and Buckler
Gold Medalist - Kyle Griswold - Mordhau Historical Combat
Silver Medalist - Jesse Tucker - Blood and Iron Martial Arts, Burnaby
Bronze Medalist - Jason Brown - Swordguild Portland
Finalist - Shane Gibson - Phoenix Society of Historical Swordsmanship
Messer (Experimental)
Gold Medalist - Sean Franklin - Blood and Iron Martial Arts, Burnaby
Silver Medalist - John Patterson - Phoenix Society of Historical Swordsmanship
Bronze Medalist - Kyle Griswold - Mordhau Historical Combat
Finalist - Shane Gibson - Phoenix Society of Historical Swordsmanship
Open Longsword Cutting
Gold Medalist - Kyle Griswold - Mordhau Historical Combat
Silver Medalist - Jesse Tucker - Blood and Iron Martial Arts, Burnaby
Bronze Medalist - Clifford Curry - Mordhau Historical Combat
Finalist - Phillip Martin - Phoenix Society of Historical Swordsmanship
Meet the
Board
RJ McKeehan - President & CEO
RJ has been doing HEMA for over 15 years, and helped with the organization of every SoCal Swordfight that has been run. He loves watching the evolution of competition and technique in both the fighting and cutting arenas. He continues to support HEMA and tournament development through running SoCal Swords in Orange, California.
Sean Franklin - Vice President
Sean has been doing HEMA for over 15 years and running HEMA tournaments for almost all of them. Though his competitive career was sadly cut short due to injury he has no shortage of things to keep busy with; coaching the next generation, helping push forward the scientific study/understanding of the community through SwordSTEM, developing and maintaining the most popular HEMA tournament software in the world, and traveling all over to learn from other practitioners and see the kaleidoscope of how competitive HEMA runs in different parts of the world. And of course, seeming to have a second full time, non-paying, job of helping run a number of the biggest and most competitive tournaments in the world.
Mickey Avila - Secretary
I will write a bio soon, I swear.
Myles Cupp - Director
Myles has over 20 years of fencing experience and has been practicing HEMA since 2010. He has been part of every SoCal Swordfight since the very first iteration. He promotes the expansion of academic programming at SoCal Swordfight including lectures, antiques presentations, and historically driven combat rule sets. Outside of SoCal Swordfight, Myles teaches regularly at SoCal Swords and at other events.
Isaac Patino - Treasurer
Isaac has worked as a photographer and organizer for SoCal Swordfight since 2024 and has participated in HEMA since then as well. He enjoys watching the event come together with support from the HEMA community and the global unity it brings. He also has enjoyed seeing tatami cutting grow in popularity. He's looking forward to continuing his work with the SoCal Swordfight team and helping the event expand in all aspects including adding more classes, competitions, and increasing engagement and awareness about HEMA.