The Chivalric Fighting Arts Association

[Sir Rodney]

Mr. Christian Henry Tobler announced the creation of The Chivalric Fighting Arts Association in this myArmoury post yesterday afternoon.  This is very exciting news indeed!  I recognized several of the founding members including Christian Henry Tobler, Gregory Mele, Sean Hayes, Guy Windsor and Bill Grandy.   The mission statement sounds spot-on and I can't wait to see how high the CFAA takes the Knightly Arts.

[Joshua Santana]

That is amazing news!  This has just made my day, since I have intentions of training in the Knightly Arts via Staten Island German Martial Arts (SIGMA, a chapter of Selohaar Fechtschule) by this May!

I think they will do great things in promoting Medieval Martial Arts as the Chivalric Arts!

[Sir Edward]

Excellent! I was wondering when something like this would be put together.

[Sir William]

Sir Joshua, you're in Staten Island?  That's interesting...I have to pass through in order to get to my folks' house in Long Beach.  Small world!

[Joshua Santana]

Sorry Sir William, I live in New Jersey. But it's great to know a fellow brother in arms nearby!

[Sir William]

Indeed; I don't live there but I go up there several times a year to visit family.  But I'm not too far away, just minutes outside of DC.  Say, are you going to join Stormdelver at the NJ Faire?

[Sir James A]

Huzzah! Congrats to Bill Grandy for getting into that elite group. I recognize all of those names. Looking forward to what the future has in store.

[Sir William]

What're they coming together to make happen?

[Sir Edward]

I think it's probably a combination of sharing of knowledge and research, and presenting a more unified face to the outside public. As you'd expect in any sort of unorganized hobby, there will always be large numbers of small groups that have different ideas of how to do things, don't always communicate, and there can be very different standards for things like competitions, rankings, etc. Having an umbrella organization can help smooth all of these things out, and provides an opportunity to get it all on the right track before everyone gets too jaded separately. I suspect they've considered all of these things when entering into discussions about what to do.

[Thorsteinn]

Looks good.

Wasn't there something about 2 SCA Knights being on the founding board as well?

-Ivan

[Sir Brian]

Mr. Christian Henry Tobler announced the creation of The Chivalric Fighting Arts Association in this myArmoury post yesterday afternoon.  This is very exciting news indeed!  I recognized several of the founding members including Christian Henry Tobler, Gregory Mele, Sean Hayes, Guy Windsor and Bill Grandy.   The mission statement sounds spot-on and I can't wait to see how high the CFAA takes the Knightly Arts.

Congratulations and kudos to these fine gentlemen and scholars. Regretfully I only had the privilege of meeting just two of the individuals on this esteemed list of master instructors.

[Sir Edward]

Hey all, just a quick note, as a moderator.

I deleted the posts after this point in the thread. I don't want anyone to feel like they broke the rules, but we felt it was getting a little too far off topic in a way that could be misinterpreted. So in the interest of keeping things "on the level", I just removed the posts (including mine).

Feel free to continue the existing discussion, but we just need to be mindful that it may look unprofessional when we start comparing personal opinions of people who aren't present. Expressing opinions is fine, but you know how the Internet can be. We don't want the CFAA getting stuck with some misunderstandings right out of the gate.

I'm just as guilty as anyone else, so this is pointed at me too.

[Sir Rodney]

Looks good.

Wasn't there something about 2 SCA Knights being on the founding board as well?

-Ivan

You are correct Ivan.  I've copied a post by Mr. Tobler from this Armour Archive thread.

Hello Vladimir,

In general, though there might be some exceptions down the line, we're a confraternity of schools. However, there is no prejudice against SCA members: Scott Wilson, who heads Southern Academy of Swordsmanship, and Bob Charrette, of Forteza Historical Swordwork Guild, are both SCA knights.

Beyond that, members schools come in by invitation, and through a sponsor.

Yours,

Christian

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[Sir Edward]

The Chivalric Fighting Arts Association

Heh, this is one of the things I love about web development. Just out of curiosity I looked at the website's structure. No CSS. Just simple HTML and images, and yet it looks clean and professional. There's so many ways to accomplish the same goals. Much like the fighting arts themselves.