Tristan Zukowski Tristan Zukowski has been involved with Historical European Martial Arts since 2009, when he began formal training in Germanic (Liechtenauer-school) longsword under the tutelage of Michael Edelson of the New York Historical Fencing Association. Tristan has been an active instructor since 2011, and maintains a regular teaching schedule at the NYC and various Hudson Valley branches of NYHFA. He also travels regularly in the US and abroad to give seminars and teach workshops under the professional moniker TZLongsword. In 2016 he co-founded Squinting Rabbit Productions, a film company creating high-quality, innovative and informative videos for the global HEMA community.