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Jared Kirby

Jared Kirby has been involved in the Western Martial Arts community for almost 10 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 passionately 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 Ramon Martinez. Jared has studied and trained there for over 5 years and is currently an instructor of Spanish and Italian Rapier at Martinez 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-Martinez. Both books are available from Greenhill Books and for more information, see http://www.martinez-destreza.com