PNW HEMA Gathering is the annual Pacific Northwest's premiere event for Historical European Martial Arts. This is a cooperative event put on by HEMA schools in the Pacific Northwest, to include; Oregon, Washington, Idaho and British Columbia. Students come from all over; Locally, from the West to the East coast, Canada, Mexico and Europe. All serious HEMA practitioners and scholars attend this event and conduct or take classes in a host of related topics and fight in the only, truly competitive weapons tournaments in the region. The tournaments cover, at a minimum, Longsword, Dussack and Grappling with future events already planned to include more weapons systems.
2012 was the Third annual PNW HEMA Gathering of its kind, growing from only 15 participants in 2009, to over 50 in only three years.
If you are a serious student of Historical European Martial Arts, this is the event for you.