About us

It was just in times of Renaissance when the art of flag throwing was born and nourished in the field of medieval guilds. A guild's banner was considered a symbol of purity, and as such it was not allowed to touch the ground. The Italian practice of 'flag flourishing' is a unique survival of what was, in fact, general military practice throughout Western Europe until the mid-late 17th Century. Flag-throwing have begun in Renaissance Italy as a celebration - a victory, or the announcement of some other event and that tradition seems to survive until today. There are great tournaments and flag flourishing festivals held on the occasions of presentations of Italian cities or/and their quarters and apart from audience entertainment the aim of such performance is to show and compete with flag bearers skills.

All the members of our group practice historical fencing and are interested in history for more than 15 years. We were addressed and taken with the art of flag throwing insomuch that we found a new space for our skills to be developed. We began to learn the art a few years ago, originally for our own pleasure. Subsequently, we decided to show the gained experience to the audience.

As a first step forward to this area we prepared a comprehensive flag flourishing show combining a fighting character of so-called German banners with Italian jolly flags. These days we are preparing another conception containing both fencing exhibition, flag handling and combat choreography.

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