History
Our club began in 1999 under the name of Tampa Fechtschule, and was rechristened Krieg School in 2009 when head instructor Ben Floyd took over as leader of the club. Ben and his wife Meg would later go on to open a new location in Denver, CO in 2015 with new head instructor Andrew Weems, who has since moved on to Dallas, TX to pursue his postdoctoral work and start a new HEMA club. The old Tampa Bay location is headed by instructor Craig Shukas. We are a internationally competitive group dedicated to the study and propagation of HEMA (Historical European Martial Arts). Everyone is welcome to train at our club, regardless of their skin color/gender/religious beliefs/sexual orientation. All we ask is that you want to learn to swing a sword around and be eager to learn. Our motto is Artem per certamen monstrans or,