Tristan Zukowski Tristan Zukowski has been involved with Historical European Martial Arts since 2009, when he began formal training in Germanic (Liechtenauer-school) longsword as a member of the New York Historical Fencing Association. Tristan has been an active instructor since 2011, and maintained a regular teaching schedule in New York City from 2013 to 2019. In 2016 he co-founded Squinting Rabbit Productions, a film company creating high-quality, innovative and informative videos for the global HEMA community. Tristan also travels frequently in the US and abroad to give seminars and teach workshops under the professional moniker TZLongsword.