Dr Lynette Nusbacher began training at School of the Sword in 2015. She had been part of the first wave of HEMA in the early 1990s in Canada, after fighting SCA armoured combat for ten years. She specialises in rapier work, particularly devoted to the work of Giacomo Di Grassi and Salvator Fabris. She crosses over between the HEMA and SCA fencing environments. She teaches widely, including at International Rapier Seminar, at HEMA and SCA events. She makes popular education television programmes for Discovery Channel, National Geographic Channel and Smithsonian.
She earned her doctorate in early modern British history at the University of Oxford, her master’s degree in War Studies at the Royal Military College and her honours BA at the University of Toronto. When she isn’t fencing she works out at New Wave Crossfit and practises strategy.