Jared Kirby. Photo courtesy of Martínez Academy of Arms.
The International Swordfighting and Martial Arts Convention
Biography Page for

Jared Kirby
Martinez Academy of Arms



Jared Kirby has been involved in Western Martial Arts for a dozen years. He co-founded The New Dawn Duellists Society in Minneapolis, MN in order to generate interest in the study of Historical European Martial Arts. After several years of recreating western swordfighting from the historical treatises, he moved to Scotland and studied with Maestro Paul Macdonald of the Dawn Duellists Society. During this time he fell in love with the dusack and hasn’t stopped his study, research and teaching of it since.

After returning to the U.S., he moved to New York City in order to learn the Spanish Rapier from Maestro Ramón Martínez. Jared has studied and trained there for 8 years and is currently an Instructor of Spanish and Italian Rapier at Martínez Academy of Arms.

Jared is the editor and one of the translators of “Italian Rapier Combat”, the first complete, professional translation of Capo Ferro. He is also the editor and wrote the introduction for “The School of Fencing” by Domenico Angelo and annotated by Maestro Jeannette Acosta-Martínez. Both books are available from Greenhill Books and for more information, see http://www.martinez-destreza.com

 
He is the co-coordinator of the International Swordfighting and Martial Arts Convention in Detroit, MI. This workshop, created in 2000, brings together the finest instructors from around the world for one of the largest annual Western Martial Arts workshops. Jared is a full member of the Dawn Duellists Society in Edinburgh, Scotland and a member of the Association for Historical Fencing.