Battalion Martial Arts offers HEMA and WW2 combatives training in York and Hull, focusing on historically informed close combat including knife, stick, bayonet, and unarmed techniques. Our York club trains in a friendly, structured environment suitable for complete beginners through to experienced martial artists.

Chris the lead instructor and founder of Battalion martial arts has over 20 years’ martial arts experience across multiple systems. For the past decade he has specialised in Medieval Martial Arts, which informed his later focus on WW2 close-quarters combat. He completed a WW2 combatives coaching course with Tommy Joe Moore and leads the club’s historical research and technical interpretation.