Our philosophy and approach towards the arts of combat are borne from decades of study and practice and a long and glorious history reaching back to Duke Akbar ibn Murad of the House Hakkim of the East Kingdom of the SCA and his students, Sir Strykar Geirharldsson and Duke Sir Siegfried Von Halstern and is oriented around a number of basic concepts:
- Integrated and Holistic: Offense, defense, movement, rotation, and positioning are all components of an integrated, inter-related, and interchangeable holistic framework.
- Analytical and Scholastic: We attempt to construct and deconstruct the mechanics, tactics, and strategy of both our and our opponents' actions to understand both what we are doing on the field and why we are doing it (mechanically, tactically, strategically, ethically, ec...) and to study ourselves, our opponents, different schools and historical approaches.
- Inclusive and Syncretic: We don't believe there is necessarily a single best technique applicable for all people in all situations, though there may be a single best approach and overall manner of learning, but instead attempt to build the most effective personal approach for each fighter by fusing together any and all available schools, techniques, methods, and approaches.
- Temperament and Attitude: We believe that medieval combat is fun and being around people having fun makes people learn better. There are appropriate times to be serious and appropriate times to have fun, and it is appropriate to know which are which and to have both, making sure there is sufficient amounts of both.