The Gatesville, TX Chapter Wants YOU!

The Gatesville, TX Chapter is our newest chapter and is lead by Nathan Laney (seen on viewer’s left), a fighter and instructor with nearly 9 years of experience training and fighting in tournaments, earning several medal along the way. You only need to bring yourself as loaner gear is available. You can contact Laney here: https://www.facebook.com/Nathan.Kenneth

We look forward to training with you! Come join us for what my prove the most rewarding experience of your life!

Where We Plan to go in 2025

Three of our fighters while participating in Gatesville, TX Spurfest. In the middle is Organizational Lead Instructor and Jarl of the Viking Age living history division, Jefferson Webb. To his left is Gatesville, TX Lead Instructor and Viking Age living history division Huskarl Nathan Laney. To the Jarl’s right is Gatesville, TX Fighter and Viking Age living history division Dreng, John Post.

We are welcoming 2025 after having a great year of growth and expansion in 2024. While we continue to grow our headquarters chapter in Woodway, TX (right outside of Waco) we are also continuing to grow our newest chapter in Gatesville, TX.

We are also increasing our presence in Clifton, TX, known of as the “Norwegian Capital of Texas,” after being very warmly welcomed to take part in their annual Lighted Christmas Parade while wearing Viking Age period clothing complete with our blunt steel training weapons simulators. We have been asked to return for the 2025 parade as well. We want to thank the Clifton Chamber of Commerce for allowing us the honour of taking part in such a special event! We plan to start hosting training sessions in Clifton very soon.

Along with the many disciplines in which we train, we are pushing forward with the growth of our Viking Age living history division training more fighters as well as taking in members for our Hearth, the arts of craft division that is well-researched in what they do.

As we continue to increase in the number of members and expand in area, we are interested in taking in new members from anywhere in Texas, though we are initially targeting the following areas specifically to form new chapters and training new members: Ft. Cavasos, Killeen, Temple, Belton, Harker Heights, Corsicana, Salado, Clifton, Valley Mills, Bryan/College Station, Tyler, Brownwood, Coleman and Abilene. If you live in any of these cities or areas near them and you have 2 or more friends that are interested in taking part in amazingly rewarding training, building camaraderie and finding a sense of belonging with great people, contact us here or check us out on Facebook. That said, if you live anywhere in Texas and you have the friends that want to also join in, contact us.

We plan on taking part in a number of events in and around the cities named above this year and we’re very excited about it. Furthermore, there is the possibility of overseas adventures to places like Denmark and Poland, where major Viking Age fighting and festivals take place that have the attendance of several hundreds of participants each year. 2025 holds the potential to be an amazing year of growth for us, and we’d like for you to be apart of it. We hope to hear from you! Come join us!

Come Join Us!

We are looking for people who are serious about training with a great group of people who enjoy the camaraderie of taking part in a great martial arts organization together. Whether you are interesting in the entire curriculum or want to specialize in spear or tactical archery, we are the place for you!

Come join us and find what may prove the most rewarding martial arts experience of your life and a genuine sense of belonging and purpose.

We are Accepting Inquiries for Membership

We are growing and are accepting inquires for new members at this time. If you live in the Waco, TX area or within driving distance, are of honest character and want to engage in serious training with a great group of people, then we may be for you. We are selective and not all who apply are accepted, but if you are looking for what may prove the most rewarding martial arts experience of your life, message us here, PM us on Facebook or email us at artocombatema@yahoo.com for more information. Be sure to introduce yourself, tell us why you are interested and a little bit about yourself to include any previous martial arts experience you may have. We look forward to hearing from you!