After joining HEMA in 2016 and figuring out a solid diet and exercise routine she lost over 110 lbs. Now she is passionate to share her knowledge and experience with others. Her expertise is in Longsword, cutting, and body mechanics.

Coming from a high school and college club fencing background, she now enjoys small blades and big sticks (not a euphemism). Catch her talking about history pretty much anywhere, anytime, the weirder the better.

Ryan began studying martial arts at five years old with Taekwondo and folkstyle wrestling. This sparked a livelong love of thirty years for Ryan, having trained in Lai Tung Pai and Pak Mei Kung Fu, Boxe Francaise/Savate, and Shotokan karate along with various other arts. Since 2016, he has focused on HEMA with an emphasis on the fencing of Renaissance Bologna and the Spanish "Vulgar Common" as contained in the treatise of Domingo Godinho. His favorite weapon is two swords. He brings a passion for teaching and a study of fencing theory and analysis of the sources, as well as a multidisciplinary approach to body mechanics from his study of ballet dance and non-HEMA martial arts and to the analysis of historical social and ethical concerns which frame historical martial arts. As a left-hander, he takes special pride in finding an approach for left-handed students in reverse engineering plays and actions written for right-handed people. In the rare instance where he is not training martial arts, Ryan enjoys baseball, model trains,