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Colin Hatcher
Colin Hatcher, Esq. is by profession a trial attorney in the San Francisco Bay Area, California USA. He has been a martial artist for the past 32 years and a martial arts instructor for over 20 years. He is qualified in and has practiced many of the grappling arts (wrestling, aikido, judo, Japanese jujitsu, Brazilian jiu-jitsu), as well as other martial arts, including kali/escrima, thai boxing and wing chun kung fu. In addition for 10 years (1989-1998) he was an active instructor and participant and full-time volunteer with the International Alliance of Guardian Angels, where he became its International Director of Training, with primary responsibility for re-building that organization's training curriculum from the ground up.
Mr. Hatcher is an Englishman from the medieval town of Castle Cary, Somerset, England (dating back to the year 1059 a.d.). Castle Cary is only 15 miles from Glastonbury Tor (a strong contender for the Isle of Avalon from Arthurian myth), and Mr. Hatcher has had a lifelong interest in medieval history and culture.
He began his medieval martial arts study and practice with participation in the Society of Creative Anachronism (SCA) as a heavy weapons fighter. When the Schola Saint George commenced with its first formal class in 2000, studying the martial art of Fiore de'i Liberi (Arte d'Armizare) he was in that first group of students. Since then due to his extensive martial arts experience he has been a key contributor to the development of the Schola's grappling (Abrazare) and Dagger (Daga) curricula, and is an instructor for the Schola. He has been actively researching and practicing Fiore's Arte d'Armizare for the past 10 years, including making his own original translation of Fiore's grappling and dagger sections from the medieval manuscripts.
In February 2011 Mr. Hatcher was elected to the Schola Saint George's Board of Directors, as the Schola Saint George's President. He is currently both the Schola's President and Chief Executive Officer for the Schola Saint George's Executive Committee on Curricula (ECC).
