SoCal Swordfight 2018 - Tournament Results
SoCal Swordfight 2018 saw 174 individuals register for our Historical European Martial Arts Event, with over 91 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 - Robert Childs - Black Tigers
Silver Medalist - Tony Huang - Blood and Iron Martial Arts, Burnaby
Bronze Medalist - Ramon Santos - Iron Gate Swordfighting
Finalist - Gary Ledford - South Coast Swords
Longsword - Advanced Steel
Gold Medalist - Myles Cupp - South Coast Swords
Silver Medalist - John Patterson - Phoenix Society of Historical Swordsmanship
Bronze Medalist - Shane Gibson - Phoenix Society of Historical Swordsmanship
Finalist - Eric Hardeman - South Coast Swords
Longsword - Women's Steel
Gold Medalist - Brittany Reeves - Mordhau Historical Combat
Silver Medalist - Lianna Teeter - Blood and Iron Martial Arts, Victoria
Bronze Medalist - Rachel Van Dyke - South Coast Swords
Finalist - Skye Hilton - Davenriche European Martial Arts School
Longsword - Open Synthetic
Gold Medalist - Devin McCarthy - Academy of Arms, Los Angeles
Silver Medalist - Javier Cabrera Ferrero - Blood and Iron Martial Arts, Burnaby
Bronze Medalist - Carl Peterson - Tattershall School of Defense
Finalist - Par Parmar - Blood and Iron Martial Arts, Burnaby
Singlestick
Gold Medalist - Robert Childs - Black Tigers
Silver Medalist - Eric Hardeman - South Coast Swords
Bronze Medalist - Christopher Ponzillo - South Coast Swords
Finalist - Jonathan Ying - South Coast Swords
Open Rapier (Optional Dagger)
Gold Medalist - Robert Childs - Black Tigers
Silver Medalist - John Patterson - Phoenix Society of Historical Swordsmanship
Bronze Medalist - Adam Simmons - Phoenix Society of Historical Swordsmanship
Finalist - Jeff Jacobson - Tattershall School of Defense
Sword and Buckler
Gold Medalist - Shane Gibson - Phoenix Society of Historical Swordsmanship
Silver Medalist - Adam Simmons - Phoenix Society of Historical Swordsmanship
Bronze Medalist - Eric Hardeman - South Coast Swords
Finalist - Gary Ledford South - Coast Swords
Smallsword (Experimental)
Gold Medalist - Michal Sadowski - Poznańska Grupa Fechtunku Salut
Silver Medalist - Ciaran Flanagan - Sacramento Historical Fencing Academy
Bronze Medalist - Arthur Henry - Sacramento Historical Fencing Academy
Finalist - Kai Eva - En Garde Fencing
Open Longsword Cutting
Gold Medalist - Tony Huang - Blood and Iron Martial Arts, Burnaby
Silver Medalist - Angel Uribe - South Coast Swords
Bronze Medalist - Brittany Reeves - Mordhau Historical Combat
Finalist - Nathan Rowe - Kron Martial Arts, Los Angeles
Advanced Longsword Cutting
Gold Medalist - Julian Schuetze - Blood and Iron Martial Arts, Burnaby
Silver Medalist - Sean Franklin - Mordhau Historical Combat
Bronze Medalist - Phillip Martin - Phoenix Society of Historical Swordsmanship
Finalist - Eric Hardeman - South Coast Swords
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.