Coaches

Jim Tschen Emmons, Maître d’armes

Training, Experience, & Certifications, Fencing

Certification: Maître d’armes, Barbasetti Military Sabre since 1895, Prague, CZ, 2025
Certification: Prévôt d’Armes, Barbasetti Military Sabre since 1895, Prague, CZ, 2024
joined Storica Defensa as an advisor, 2023
Certification: Moniteur d’escrime, sabre 2022
assisted Maître Delmar Calvert with younger students at Salle Trois Armes, Portland, 2008-2010
competed in collegiate and USFA tournaments from 1991-1996, UC Santa Barbara
started French foil 1986

Training, Experience, & Certifications, Academic

College Professor, Northern Virginia Comm. College & North Idaho College, 2003-2016
Special Collections Librarian, Maryland Historical Society, 2007
Archivist, Maryland Historical Society, 2006-2007
MLS, Library & Archival Studies, University of Maryland, 2007
PhD, History, UC Santa Barbara, 2002
MA, History, 1996
BA, Classical Archaeology, 1993

Research, Interviews, & Media

https://saladellatrespade.com/instructors/research-media/

Gallery

USFCA coaches clinic, Halberstadt Fencing Club, Jan 22

SabreSlash 2021 Moustache Challenge winner Pavel Lstibůrek, Ars Dimicatoria, Prague, Czech Republic

Maestro Leonid Křížek, CSG Riegel and Barbasetti Military Sabre, Prague, CZ

Competition Day Winners–Moustache Challenge, 1st and 2nd place in bouts, and officials

Fernanda Lammoglia (Mexico)–Photo courtesy of Michael Knazko

The backdrop with a tribute to the late Maestro Wojciech Zabłocki of Warsaw

Sabreurs fom Escuela de Esgrima Histórica de Madrid and Michael Kňažko, Barbasetti Military Sabre (since 1895) at SabreSlash 2021

Michael Knazko, Barbasetti Military Sabre, Prague, CZ

Swordsmithy Wares

Hammering out crooked blades

Michael demonstrating seconda

First movement for the rising molinello from the left

Jaroslaw Kubacki from Kompania Czarnej Szabli (Black Sabre Company), Warsaw, Poland. SabreSlash 2021 official instructor, here assisting Jim in demonstration

Vladimír Otta, Jim, and Jan Gruber–photo courtesy of Michael Knazko

Explaining Drills at SabreSlash 2021—-Photo courtesy of Michael Knazko

Velah models the latest in historical fencing fashion

Will and Dax in drill–Dax (r) feints with a thrust to the inside line, Will parries in 4th, and Dax disengages and makes a molinello to the head.

Will and Dax discussing the nuances of a drill.

Will and Velah in directed bouting.

Discussing head parries.

The Salute

Marsha and John at the Intro/Refresher to Italian Sabre at Indes Ferox Gladio, March 2019–here Marsha is about half-way through the arc of a descending molinello to the head.