Schola Saint George

Brian R. Price, Founder & Principale
Brian Price is the well-known author of several books, including "Techniques of Medieval Armour Reproduction" (Paladin Press, 1998), "The Book of the Tournament," (Chivalry Bookshelf, 1996), and most recently, "Sword in Two Hands: A Full-Color Training Guide for the Medieval Longsword Based on Fiore dei Liberi's Fior di Battaglia."

Brian was the founder for the Company of Saint George--a tournament company that promoted the use of authentic armour and tournament formats. From 1992-1998 he published Chronique: The Journal of Chivalry, which ceased publication in favor of his book publishing company, the Chivalry Bookshelf, which continues today as the largest publisher of books on the Western martial arts.

Brian has studied Akido, Hapkido, modern fencing, and has jousted and he has been a well-known combatant within the Society for Creative Anachronism, achieving the rank of knight and earl. He has been thrice recognized by the United States Martial Arts Hall of Fame and is a member of the American Teachers of the Martial Arts (ATAMA).

Mr. Price's work with Fiore's sword in two hands forms the basis for the school's core curriculum. His in-progress book, Masters of the Crossed Swords, will cover modules II and III, and he is also working on another book: Ponderous, Cruel & Mortal, Techniques of the Medieval Poleaxe.

Since 1999 he has been engaged in an in-depth study of the Western martial arts, particularly the works of Fiore dei Liberi and the medieval poleaxe. Currently Brian is completing his Ph.d in history, focusing on the medieval fighting treatises, at the University of North Texas and he runs the Dallas / Forth Worth branch of the Schola as well as serving as Principale.

Dr. Robert Holland, SSG Provost
Dr. Holland is also a founder of the Schola, and is the school's resident expert on the sword and buckler based on Royal Armouries MS I.33. Dr. Holland has also been a student of Fiore since 2001.

Dr. Holland has been pursuing Western martial arts for over 25 years, and brings his experience of tactical considerations and body mechanics to bear in understanding the manuscripts.

Dr. Holland also continues to compete actively within the Society for Creative Anachronism.

Presently Dr. Holland runs the SF Bay Area branch of the Schola, based in Livermore. Dr. Holland travels teaching his sword and buckler curriculum and Fiore and continues to explore both the RA I.33 and the Fiore material.

Mr. Colin Hatcher, Esq., SSG
Mr. Hatcher is the school's resident expert on the grappling and knife-fighting arts. Mr. Hatcher began with the SSG with our first formal class in 2000, and he has been a key contributor to the development of the Schola's abrazare and daga interpretations, bringing his extensive martial arts experience to bear.

Englishman Colin Hatcher, of the Schola Saint George, is a trial attorney in California USA. He has been a martial artist for the past 30 years and a martial arts instructor for over 20 years with several black belts. He is qualified in and has practiced many of the grappling arts (wrestling, aikido, judo, jujitsu, brazilian jujitsu), as well as other martial arts, including kali/escrima, thai boxing and wing chun kung fu.

Colin has fought full contact competitively in several martial disciplines, and for ten years also applied his martial arts on a weekly basis as a bouncer in clubs in London, England. In addition, during the 1990s he spent nine years as a full-time volunteer for the International Alliance of Guardian Angels, including five years as that non-profit organization's International Director of Training, teaching street-rules self-defense and conflict intervention and resolution to youth and community groups in the urban jungle, in the course of which he founded and his own "street rules" martial arts network in Europe and USA - known as "School for Warrior Spirit" - with several hundred members. Not surprisingly he identifies strongly with Fiore's Lion.

For the past nine years Colin has been a student of the Western Martial Arts, first experiencing full contact heavy weapons armoured fighting with the Society of Creative Anachronism (SCA), and then studying and practicing Fiore dei Liberi's martial system with Brian Price and Robert Holland in California in the first Schola Saint George group, and later teaching Fiore for Schola Saint George. He has a special interest in Fiore's Abrazare and Daga, and has been carefully translating, experimenting with and developing a complete Fiorean Abrazare and Dagger Method for the past two years.

In May of 2010 Mr. Hatcher was recognized as the School's first non-founding Magistro, responsible for the Schola's grappling and dagger curriculum.

Mr. Frank Petrino, East Coast Regional Technical Director
Joining our instructor Cadre is Frank Petrino, East Coast Regional Director. Frank has an extensive background in Chinese martial arts, including Jeet Kune Do as an apprentice to Craig Stanton. He has also studied WIng Chung Kung Fu, Kali, and Muay Thai. He studeid Northern Wushu and Taiji under Sifu Luis Diaz, former Captain of the U.S. Wushu eam. and has been training with the Schola since 2004.

He has also been cross-training with the SCA for 2004. Mr. Petrino conducts progression testing on the East Coast and is presently working on integrating the zogho stretto techniques.

Primary interests in Fiore are longsword and dagger. He has completed his translation and interpretation of the Giocco Stretto longsword plays, plays of the longsword, though it is doubtless that more iterations will follow (hopefully sooner than later)!

Mr. Patrik Olterman, European Regional Director
Patrik Olterman is Schola Saint Georges European Director. He Joined Schola Saint George as the Study group leader for SSG's first European group in Riga, Latvia. Currently Patrik is forming a group in South East London.

Patrik Olterman is a student at William Booth College in London where he is studying to become a Salvation Army officer in the summer of 2009.

Patrik is Originally from Sweden and 1992 he became one of Colin Hatcher's students in the Guardian Angels. Since then he has earned a second degree black belt in Colin Hatcher's street rules martial arts "School for warrior Spirit" and was made one of five international trainers for the Guardian Angels in 1995. Patrik has also started his own martial arts school called WSD - Warrior Self Defence, this school has been devoted to train street-smart self defence skills to neighbourhood watch groups since 1998.

Patrik has made a name for himself as an accomplished Rapier and dagger fighter within the SCA where he is the student of the acclaimed "Dragons steel" recipient Thomas Langland.

Within the Schola Patrik is focused on Fiore's Abrazare and Daga applied to modern self defence. Another focus is to use the warrior ethos and chivalric framework as a tool to help troubled teenagers to find a way and purpose in life.