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Brian, is the Vice President and co-Founder of the Academy of European Medieval Martial Arts (AEMMA) and Director of the Fighting Arts Collective of Toronto, a multi-discipline Martial arts training facility encompassing Modern, Historical and traditional Martial Arts from both the East and West. Mr. McIlmoyle is AEMMA's Principle Instructor and Curriculum Developer and has been teaching Western martial arts semi-professionally for 10 years and has been involved in the study and practice of Medieval martial arts for 24 years. Although he prefers to remain in Toronto teaching AEMMA's students at the Toronto salle d'armes, Brian has traveled both within Canada, the United States and in Europe providing instruction in armizare according to the AEMMA interpretation of Fiore dei Liberi's "Flos Duellatorum" and "Fior di Bataglia". Sword and Buckler play as shown in MS I.33 has also been part of the AEMMA curriculum since 2004.

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David is the Founder and President of the Academy of European Medieval Martial Arts (AEMMA), an organization dedicated to the resurrection, reconstruction and formalization of medieval martial arts training systems. He is also the Academy's Provost working on the development of training curriculums that include armoured and unarmoured training systems. He initially received training in Milan, Italy, in the early 90's employing steel weapons in longsword techniques and has participated in various organizations dedicated to studying the Middle Ages. In addition David has studied and practiced historical European medieval martial arts for 14 years, and has also studied and practiced Asian combat arts in his past. His background and experience having fired his desire to pursue a formal medieval martial arts training program, he founded AEMMA in mid-1998. He is also a board member (Director) of the Association for Historical Fencing (AHF).