Sean Kiernan

Sean Kiernan started fencing in 1996 with the Order of the Rose School of Defense. Under the instruction of Brooke Boyer and Brint Roland he gained experience in SCA rapier combat. In 1999 he was bequeathed the school and that is where his education really started.

His first exposure to Western Martial Arts was at a Historical Armed Combat Association seminar in Atlanta where he took classes on stage combat from John Waller and Andrew Dean of the Royal Armories. The next year he met Tommaso Leoni at the Schola St George WMA symposium in Livermore and had his first exposure to the teachings of Salvatore Fabris. Since then Sean has trained under Mr. Leoni several times, even hosting Mr. Leoni to teach a 20 hour seminar at his school. Since then Sean has been training and teaching Fabris’ style working from Mr. Leoni’s translation of the Grand Masters 1606 work “Lo Schermo, overo Scienza d’arme” (On fencing, or the Knowledge of Arms).

Being a graduate of the U.S. Navy’s advanced military instructors program for NCO’s combined with the knowledge gained from study of the period masters has given Sean the ability to teach swordplay in a way that is methodical, easy to learn and effective.

Sean is the Head instructor of “The Trayn’d Bande of the Blackfriars”, a renaissance guild that focuses on the swordplay of the 15th thru the 17th centuries. At renaissance fairs throughout northern California and Nevada you will find him educating all who are interested about the western martial arts.

Chandler Brown

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