SoCal Swordfight 2019 - Tournament Results

SoCal Swordfight 2019 brought together over 250 attendees and 198 tournament participants. The event included over 50 hours of instruction, classes, and lectures, as well as well as the infamous guild challenge.

The event also hosted 11 individual tournaments which all set participation records for SoCal Swordfight, including our first Smallsword Tournament. The results of these tournaments can be seen below, and you can dig even deeper into the stats of the event at HEMA Scorecard.

Also, a special thanks to Allan Sherlock for head judging the entire finals event and being the MC.

Jason Taylor Memorial Open Steel Longsword Tournament

  1. Sigmund Werndorf, Los Angeles Historical Martial Arts Society
  2. Paul Barolet, Academy of Arms, Los Angeles
  3. Raúl Barrera-Barraza, Davenriche European Martial Arts School
  4. Jack Stewart, United Clans Swordsman Association

Longsword - Advanced Steel

  1. Jeremy Halliday, True Edge Academy of Swordsmanship
  2. Douglas Bostic, Tucson Historic Fencing Club
  3. Kyle Griswold, Mordhau Historical Combat
  4. Shane Gibson, Phoenix Society of Historical Swordsmanship

Longsword - Women's Steel

  1. Rachel Van Dyke, SoCal Swords
  2. Sarah Potratz, Wisconsin Historical Fencing Association
  3. Nicole Green, Wisconsin Historical Fencing Association
  4. Sara Lewis, Phoenix Society of Historical Swordsmanship

Longsword - Open Synthetic

  1. Jay Fonacier, Kron Martial Arts, Fullerton
  2. John Zemanek, Fighters Guild Historical Combat
  3. Michael Schachtner, Tattershall School of Defense
  4. Anthony Julin, Mordhau Historical Combat

Smallsword

  1. Francesco Loda, Accademia Romana d'Armi
  2. Myles Cupp, SoCal Swords
  3. Ryan Shapiro, Tattershall School of Defense
  4. Kaden Wang, Sacramento Sword School

Rapier (Optional Dagger) - Open

  1. Omar Alonso, Ritterschaft HEMA
  2. Michael French, Swordguild Portland
  3. Isaac Humber, Diamond Rose Academie D'armes
  4. Alex Laslavic, Davenriche European Martial Arts School

Rapier (Optional Dagger) - Advanced

  1. Adam Simmons, Phoenix Society of Historical Swordsmanship
  2. Jeff Jacobson, Tattershall School of Defense
  3. Francesco Loda, Accademia Romana d'Armi
  4. Jonathan Curry, Black Tigers

Sword and Buckler

  1. Anthony Buonomo, Austin Historical Weapons Guild
  2. Adam Simmons, Phoenix Society of Historical Swordsmanship
  3. Dashiell Harrison, Indes Ferox Gladio
  4. Gintaras Valiulis, Kron Martial Arts, Los Angeles

Singlestick

  1. Cody Flanigan, Wisconsin Historical Fencing Association
  2. Christopher Ponzillo, SoCal Swords
  3. Anthony Buonomo, Austin Historical Weapons Guild
  4. Alex Laslavic, Davenriche European Martial Arts School

Longsword Cutting - Beginners

  1. Jack Stewart, United Clans Swordsman Association
  2. David Suh, SoCal Swords
  3. Cameron Law, SoCal Swords
  4. Sarah Potratz, Wisconsin Historical Fencing Association

Longsword Cutting - Advanced

  1. Jeremy Halliday, True Edge Academy of Swordsmanship
  2. Phillip Martin, Phoenix Society of Historical Swordsmanship
  3. Christopher Yang, Kron Martial Arts, Fullerton
  4. Eric Hardeman, SoCal Swords
View all matches on our Youtube Channel

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.

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