As of today, the club marks it 8 year anniversary. We opened our doors in July 2017 and haven’t looked back ever since! In fact, we have been adding to our legacy of spreading well-taught martial arts through Liverpool and the surrounding area. In 2022, one of our instructors opened the Warrington HEMA club, a […]
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Update: finding the venue, building works finished
The building works have now finished. From the 6th of January 2025 onwards, the only entrance and exit to the entire sports campus will be via the gate on N Mossley Hill Rd. This is marked as “ENTRY” on the map above. You need to go all around the campus before you come to the […]
Dates: December 2024 and January 2025
We are going to have a few weeks off over Christmas and New Year, because Wednesdays seem to fall on dates when the venue will be closed this time! Our hall hire schedule for December and January is as follows: Date What is happening? Wed 27 Nov running as normal Wed 04 Dec running as […]
Anniversary: 7 years of Liverpool HEMA
Today marks our club having been open for 7 whole years. It has been quite a long time! This last year has been easier for me than the year before, because I was no longer wrestling with a newborn at home. Nonetheless, wrestling with a toddler is still pretty difficult, and the club has been […]
Update: finding the venue during current building works
UPDATE (04/01/2025): please note that this information is no longer correct as of the week commencing the 6th of January 2025. The building work has now finished and the only entry/exit will be the original gate on N Mossley Hill Rd. Please disregard the rest of this current article. The new map and instructions can be […]
Finding the venue during current building works
UPDATE (04/01/2025): please note that this information is no longer correct as of the week commencing the 6th of January 2025. The building work has now finished and the only entry/exit will be the original gate on N Mossley Hill Rd. Please disregard the rest of this current article. The new map and instructions can be […]
Anniversary: 6 years of Liverpool HEMA
Today, it is wonderful to say that Liverpool HEMA celebrates our 6-year anniversary of being open. For a change, there is nothing to say about Covid in this anniversary update! The club has been open and running without any interruptions this year. With two sessions a week, we have had more than 100 training sessions […]
Changing our Saturday sessions
In this announcement about our Saturday sessions, I have some bad news but also some good news: Why are we doing this? Although the loss of the weekend training sessions is a shame, it has been getting harder to keep them running. The turnout has often been quite small, but this and the finances are […]
Anniversary: 5 years of Liverpool HEMA
Today marks the 5-year anniversary of when Liverpool HEMA opened its doors back in 2017. When I moved down to Liverpool at the start of 2017, there wasn’t any guarantee that I would be staying for any real length of time. It could easily just have been a temporary, single-year situation, followed by moving somewhere […]
Updates: club dates in March and April
During March and April, the club is going to have a few “days off” where we are closed for one reason or another. The following dates are worth keeping in mind. Saturday 5th March We have been asked to cancel this session, due to other bookings at the hall. Therefore, the plan is to allow […]
Dates: Christmas 2021 and January 2022
This year, we are going to have a break over Christmas and New Year, for two main reasons: because the venue is installing a new floor in the sports hall (work starts on Thursday the 16th, so we have an early closing date!), and because I really need some time off to rest and recuperate. […]
Updates: changes to our weekend sessions
As of this weekend (Saturday 18th and Sunday 19th of September), the way we run our weekend sessions will be changing. With the weather becoming less predictable, although perhaps with more rain, it is not going to be sustainable to keep running the sessions outdoors. Therefore, for health and safety as well as simple comfort, […]
Anniversary: 4 years of Liverpool HEMA
Today marks the 4-year anniversary of when Liverpool HEMA opened its doors. Our previous anniversary in July last year was a slightly subdued affair, taking place near the end of the first major lockdown, without any legal opportunity to get together to celebrate. We had just started running online sessions through Zoom, and we kept […]
Updates: Reopening for indoor training
We have some wonderful updates for the club today! From Monday the 17th of May, sports clubs in England can return to training indoors. This means that Liverpool HEMA can return to the hall on Wednesday evenings. Wednesday evenings, 7:00-9:00 pm We have made the necessary arrangements with the venue managers, so everything is set […]
Updates: Reopening for outdoor training
We now have the opportunity to do some outdoor HEMA training on Sunday afternoons, until we can get back into the hall for our regular indoor training (most likely in May). The focus of these outdoor sessions will be “moving gently”: we need to take care with how we ease ourselves back into physical activity […]