Destreza Lecture Series: Episode 28 - The Bermudez Mestizo Lecture

Ash Bermudez discovered the SCA and Northern Shaolin Kung-Fu at the same time, and has pursued a lifelong love affair with martial arts since then. He has been fighting in SCA heavy combat for 22 years, specializing in spear/polearm and two-handed sword, and has competed in SCA rapier for 17 or so years, exclusively in LVD. He has enjoyed success in applying LVD theory to the use of Longsword, Spear, Dussack, and other tournament weapons.
More recently, Ash founded and coached a number of buhurt teams in Western Canada, before dedicating himself for the last several years to the development of an unarmed curriculum for self defence, which is also based on his understanding of LVD and drawn from HEMA traditions.
He has successfully coached, and continues to consult, for boxers, MMA fighters, Buhurt competitors, and SCA fighters, and has taught self-defence, arrest tactics, and use of force courses for security and law enforcement.