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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 […]

The venue is still undergoing building work – but at least Queens Drive has reopened, making the map of how to find the venue a little easier!

UPDATE (23/02/2024): please note that this information is no longer correct as of the week commencing the 19th of February. Since the reopening of Queens Drive and the removal of the “road closed” signs at the junction, accessing the venue is now easier. Please disregard the rest of this current article. The new map and […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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. […]

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, […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

After managing to run sessions every single week in December, we must now suspend our in-person training sessions once again, due to sports clubs closing for the third English lockdown. This means that from Tuesday the 5th of January until the week of the 15th-21st of February, there will not be any physical training sessions […]

We have quite a lot of exciting news today, because we will be reopening soon! There has been quite a lot of furious work in the background, paving the way for the club to reopen, while also finding us a venue with greater longevity and more space.