Meet the Team

Jesse Tucker (he/him)

DIRECTOR & PRESIDENT

  • 14 years experience

  • Favourite weapons:
    Everything from large rocks to black powder muskets

  • 34 time international medalist across 6 different weapon categories

  • Was ranked 6th in the world in Sword & Buckler, and 9th in Longsword.

  • About: Maintains his finest achievement to date has been managing to make the same grey sweatpants look good his entire career

Amanda Tucker (she/her)

DIRECTOR & ​VANCOUVER MANAGER

  • 7 years experience

  • Favourite Weapons: Rapier & Dagger, Sidesword

  • International women's longsword champion (2x finalist)

  • Multiple time mixed gender rapier tournament semi-finalist

  • About: Smol indestructible tank

Derek Usher (he/him)

DIRECTOR & ABBOTSFORD MANAGER

  • Started HEMA: 2021 - With experience in Stage Combat and Armored Combat Since 2018

  • Favorite Weapons: Longsword and Messer

  • Total Tournament Placements: 1 Gold, 1 Silver

  • About: living life fully and searching dungeons for dragons

Lianna Teeter (she/they)

VICTORIA FACILITATOR

  • 8 years experience

  • Favourite weapons: Longsword & Grappling

  • Women's longsword champion (6x finalist), 2x Glima gold medalist

  • Certified Glima instructor

  • About: Science nerd and sword enthusiast

Derek Fadden (He/Him)

ABBOTSFORD FACILITATOR

  • Started HEMA: April 2024

  • Favorite Weapons: Longsword

  • Total Tournament Placements: 1 Silver, 1 Fourth place

  • About: Love to play all types of games, whether with boards, balls, cards, dice or swords

Ian Harrison (He/Him)

VANCOUVER FACILITATOR

Thomas Del Motte (he/him)

DIRECTOR, SECRETARY & VICTORIA MANAGER

  • 7 years experience

  • Favourite Weapons: Rapier and Sabre

  • About: Time traveler, always well dressed

Torben Schau (he/him)

DIRECTOR-AT-LARGE AND VICTORIA FACILITATOR

Started HEMA: 2007

Favorite Weapons: Sword & Buckler, Messer, Longsword

About: Old age and Treachery

Erwin Li (he/him)

VICTORIA FACILITATOR

  • Started HEMA: October 2016

  • Favorite Weapons: Sidesword and Sword & Buckler

  • About: Science/engineering nerd who makes bad jokes

Naseeb Hussain (He/Him)

VICTORIA FACILITATOR

  • Started HEMA: 2019

  • Favorite Weapons: ​Messer

  • About: So polite it’s actively offensive

Giancarlo Ranalli (he/him)

DIRECTOR & TREASURER

  • Started HEMA: 2016

  • Favorite Weapons: 1st Degree black belt in Tae Qwon Do

  • Multiple years experience in MMA

  • About: Pretty good when he decides to show up

Griffin Wolf (he/him)

DIRECTOR AND VANCOUVER FACILITATOR

  • Started HEMA: 2015

  • Favorite Weapons: Longsword (Bestsword)

  • Total Tournament Placements: 1 Silver. 1 Fourth Place

  • About: Hanging guard my beloved, from whence I cast undercut upon ye

Tony Huang (he/him)

GRAND FORKS MANAGER

  • Started HEMA: 2010

  • Favorite weapon: Whatever’s on hand

  • Total Tournament Placements: “I don’t know I lost count”

  • About: Ask me about my cats!

Tyler Janzen (he/him)

QUENSEL BRANCH MANAGER

Started HEMA: April 2018

Favorite Weapon: Longsword, Messer, Saber

Total Tournament Placements: 4 Gold, 3 Silver, 3 Bronze, 3 Fourth Place

About: A literal giant

Andy Campbell (He/Him)

VANCOUVER FACILITATOR

  • Started HEMA: 2016

  • Favorite Weapons: Sabre and Smallsword

  • Total Tournament Placements: 2 Silver, 1 Bronze, 1 Fourth Place

  • About: Neither the tallest or shortest person in the club

  • Started HEMA: 2016

  • Favorite Weapons: Longsword

  • About:I needed an exercise I wouldn't want to skip. HEMA is that exercise.