Meet our team
Bastion teaches from the late medieval German fencing manuscripts, principally Liechtenauer's gloss and the Augsburg fechtbücher, with the wrestling and dagger material that sits alongside them. The instructing team is full-time professional staff, certified through the school's internal programme, which sets the standard for reading depth, technical practice, teaching judgement, and current first aid certification. Every certified instructor reads the whole corpus to the same standard. The school's reading of the corpus continues to develop through ongoing study, instructor research, and engagement with the wider HEMA scholarly community.
Instructors also teach the art outside the school at charity events, school engagement, and public demonstrations as part of Bastion's wider work to make HEMA legible in Singapore.
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Lucien Lee
Co-Founder & Principal Instructor
Trained and taught at the Glamorgan School of Arms in Wales under Dirk Neumann from 2012 to 2016. Holds the IL1 Coaching Certificate from the British Federation for Historical Swordplay, issued September 2016. Co-founded Bastion in Singapore in 2017 to bring source-grounded historical fencing to the region.
Oversees Bastion's instructor certification programme and progression. Maintains the school's interpretive standard against the manuscripts. Continues to run classes, leads the school's manuscript-study work, and contributes interpretive material back to the wider HEMA community through published research. Competes selectively; silver in longsword at SGLI 2025.
Publications Lee, Lucien (2022). "Messerfechten from the Augsburg Tradition." Bauman's Fight Book: Augsburg University Library I.6.4º 2: 129–156. Ed. by Michael Chidester. Medford: HEMA Bookshelf. ISBN 978-1-953683-27-4.
Langley
Co-Founder & Senior Instructor
Trained and taught at the Glamorgan School of Arms in Wales under Dirk Neumann from 2012 to 2016. Co-founded Bastion in Singapore in 2017.
Co-leads the structural design of Bastion's programmes, curriculum architecture, and operating model since its inception. Runs the school's ladies' classes and the Rook programme for younger students.
Said
Senior Instructor
Trained at Bastion from 2017. Certified as instructor in January 2019. Promoted to Senior Instructor in April 2021. Runs the on-going British Military Saber sessions. Gold in longsword at SGLI 2025.
The school treats competition as one form of pressure-testing technique against unfamiliar opponents, and runs its own internal competition programme quarterly under the school's safety standard and refereeing, as part of the curriculum. External tournaments are a further test for instructors and senior students who choose to undertake them.
June
Senior Instructor
Trained at Bastion from 2018. Certified as instructor in July 2019. Promoted to Senior Instructor in August 2024. Competes in triathlon across sprint, Olympic, middle, and full Ironman distances, averaging two to three races a year. Brings a working knowledge of progressive load, recovery, and long-arc physical preparation to Bastion's conditioning work, and runs the Bashfit programme on this basis. Serves as Bastion's chief administrator, with responsibility for the school's day-to-day operations.
Jon
Senior Instructor
Trained at Bastion from 2018. Certified as instructor in October 2020. Promoted to Senior Instructor in January 2024. Holds a degree in communications. A serious student of fight choreography and period film, with particular attention to how historical combat is staged on screen and stage and where it diverges from the source material. Runs Bastion's social media and external-facing presence.
Keoni
Senior Instructor
Trained at Bastion from 2020. Certified as instructor in January 2023. Promoted to Senior Instructor in March 2025.
Works on the school's interpretation of I.33, and Paulus Hector Mair's fight book, with particular attention to Sickle, Flail, Staff plays.
Sol
Instructor
Trained at Bastion from 2023. Certified as instructor in November 2025. Left-handed; works on what the source material means for the left-handed fencer, where the plays converts cleanly and where they don't. The historical record largely assumes a right-handed practitioner, and the interpretive work of teaching left-handed fencers well is an area HEMA broadly has under-developed. Professional artist; holds a degree in fine arts.
Becoming an instructor at Bastion
Instructing at Bastion is a separate path. The instructors are hired into the role rather than promoted into it over time. A student who develops both the capacity for the role and the wish to take it on may be invited to begin instructor training. The route is by invitation, and is not the expected destination of long-term study at the school. Invitations are made when the school is hiring. Most students come to Bastion to train. Senior students stay for that reason, not because they are working toward a teaching role.