Patrick McCaffrey Patrick McCaffrey is the instructor for L’Arte NYC, the New York City branch of L.A.D. Historical Fencing. He has been training for over 4 years with L’Arte Della Bellica. Along with Brian Miller, he has been interpreting the words and pictures of Fiore’s works into martial action. He uses modern and traditional approaches to teach basics and conditioning for the physically strenuous arts of close combat. And regularly holds extended classes to teach the entirety of Fiore’s Dagger Material. When he is not running classes, Patrick also hosts and produces the HEMA-Cast, a HEMA Focused Podcast. He is often found interviewing members of the HEMA community for the podcast at events in the Mid-Atlantic region of the United States. As well as helping run the Flower of Battle, and is part of the organizational team for the Longpoint Historical Fencing League. His passion is not only teaching historical techniques, but teaching others how to teach and expand the knowledge breadth and depth of the HEMA community.