Hummer Centrum

Czech Association of Historical Fencing

Universus Agency

Company events

Tournament

Are you a sport-oriented group but you have tried almost all and feel bored by the repeting sport offers of different agencies? Therefore come to the Hummer Stronghold where a grand tournament will be held for you and your fellow lads. All disciplines of all times at your service. Inspired by the gothic period, the times full of great knights and warriors. Contests in archery or cross-bow, riding, in abilities and precision. At the end of the tournament a magnificent feast will be held to celebrate the winners and award them with royal gifts.

Duration: 6 hours
Where: Hummer centrum s.r.o., Olomoucká 2332, Praha 9 - Horní Počernice
Number of contestants: 30 persons

Personal and material back-up of the event:

  • Rent of the Hummer Stronghold
  • Medieval Feast for the Winners
  • Pages - operation of the disciplines
  • Entertainment - music, fencers, dancers, jugglers
  • Executioner
  • Amortization of the decoration and game properties
  • Other Excessive Burden

Disciplines:

  • Archery (shotting down a certain object, e.g. an apple)
  • Cross-bow (shotting on a target)
  • Catching rings on a sword
  • Cutting down heads (time limit)
  • Knightly ten-pins (one try only)
  • Gluttonous Knight of the Hummer
  • Forge out a horseshoe (time limit)
  • History test
  • Torture
  • Sword fighting school

The Feats of the Winners:

  • A toast to winners
    Celtic Mead
  • Hors d´ouvre
    sausages, blood sausages, smoked meat, cheese, vegetables, fruit, bread
    beer, wine, coffee, tea, mead
  • Main dish
    grilled chicken, pork knees, roasted beef, lamb ribs
    millet, mashed potatoes, and bread
    fruit and vegetables
    beer, wine, water, mead
  • Dezert
    Prague gossip cakes, Marry´s famous apple strudel, royal gingerbread
    coffee, tea, warm mead

Menu can be adjusted according to your likes and dislikes.

Treasure Hunting

Do you want to unite your work team members? Do you wish to bring to trial the qualities of your employees? This adventurous game offers you not only the posibility to test their skills but also their adroidness and physical abilities. The journey to the hidden treasure is made up out of individual hints which the contestants have to discover, resolve their meaning and based on such knowledge search for the treasure. The treasure can be (if not appointed by you otherwise) a golden key which will open the entry gateway to the stronghold where a royal feast with entertainment will be awaiting for them. You have the choise of the time period which you preffer the most - Medieval times, Renesance, Baroque...

Duration: 6 hours
Where: Hummer centrum s.r.o., Olomoucká 2332, Praha 9 - Horní Počernice
Number of contestants: 30 persons

Personal and material back-up of the event:

  • Rent of the Hummer Stronghold
  • Medieval Feast
  • Pages - operation of the disciplines
  • Entertainment - music, fencers, dancers, jugglers
  • Handicraftsmen
  • Rent of decoration and game properties
  • Other Excessive Burden

Program overwiev:

  • Presentation of guests and their devision to different teams.
  • The herald will inform the teams about the rules and will start of the game.
  • Teams search for hints which will lead them to the treasure.
  • In order to receive a hint they will have to pass a skilness teat, a speed test, an inteligence test, an attention test, a precision test, an endourance test and even a patience test.
  • If the team will obtain all hints they will undoubtably know where to search for the treasure.
  • The team which will find the treasure first wins.
  • The feast for the winner with accompanying entertainment.
  • Herald will say goodbye to the guests and end the game.

The Feast of the Winners:

  • A toast to the winners
    Celtic Mead
  • Hors d´ouvre
    sausages, blood sausages, smoked meat, cheese, vegetables, fruit, bread
    beer, wine, coffee, tea, mead
  • Main dish
    grilled chicken, pork knees, roasted beef, lamb ribs
    millet, mashed potatoes, and bread
    fruit and vegetables
    beer, wine, water, mead
  • Dezert
    Prague gossip cakes, Marry´s famous apple strudel, royal gingerbread
    coffee, tea, warm mead

Menu can be adjusted according to your likes and dislikes.

Medieval Feast

Are you trying to find an untraditional way how to hold a company party, or celebrate you leaders birthday, or do you just want to ahve fun with your friends in an unordinary manner? We offer you an evening spend in the past. We will show you how our ancestors celebrated their important events and anniversaries, how they were entertaining themselves, what they ate, or drank...
It is only your choise wether you would preffer the times of noble medieval Gothic, the time of Charles IV., brave knights and noble ladfies of the court, or the baroque times, full of naughtiness, desipience, footpads and pirates. What can we offer you? A historical catering with dishes from the 14th to the 17th century, high quality medieval music bands, historical dancers, and of course the best sword-fighting groups from the Czech and Moravian region. Also masseuses, fortune teller or the executioner. We will take sheer royal care of your guests!

Duration: 6 hours
Where: Hummer centrum s.r.o., Olomoucká 2332, Praha 9 - Horní Počernice
Number of guests: 30 persons

Personal and material back-up of the event:

  • Rent of the Hummer Stronghold
  • Historical Catering - grande
  • Herald
  • Pages
  • The Executioner - a torture performance
  • Masseuses - rexal masages
  • Fortune-teller - Osho Tarot
  • Entertainment - musicians, fencers, dancers, jugglers, fire show
  • Other Excessive Burden

Medieval Fears - grande:

  • Toast with the Herald
    Royal Mead
  • Meat Hors d´ouvre
    margrave´s veal saussages, Prague blood-saussages and regular saussages, shtokfish-fish smoked on secret wood combination
    Emperors stuffed bacon with sage, soldiers fillet, delicious collared pork,
    a plate of various cheese, vegetables or fruit combinations from our noble orchards,
    wine from Karlstein slopes, beer from Pilsner breweries brought, Almond Mead, mineral water
  • Main Dish - Royal so called
    soup called "totrsup"
    royal stuffed quail, chicken on honey roasted, boar roasted with juniper,
    saussages in Bawarian beer cooked, escalopes of Madame Machna d´odov,
    millet, mashed potatoes, and all that with home baked bread, and crispy rolls,
    exotic fruits and vegetables
  • Something for the sweet-tooth
    Emperor cakes, royal gingerbread, apple strudel, crepes parisienne, cakes and pies
    coffee and tea all the way from the far Orient brought, warm Mead, Mulled wine with cinnamon.

Menu can be adjusted according to your likes and dislikes.

In the Mercenary Camp

Are planning an untraditional teambuilding for your employees and you wish to surprize them with something untraditional? Life in a mercenary camp is exactly what you are looking for! A quest full of adventure, adrenaline and education where strenght and abilities of all contestants are put to the greatest tests of them all. During two days the players are being introduced to the life of mercaneries during the Thirty-years War. We will teach you how to build a camp, how to organize defence and provide yourselves with food through hunting. You will be carefully trained as worriors, you will learn the tackics against your enemies, in our case the enemy is the Sweedish army. The main quest of your defenders is to safeguard the royal symbols for 24 hours. If you manage to guard them well the walls of the Hummers Stronghold will open for you the next day. Its citizens will welcome you as heroes; your tired bodies will be treated by beautiful masseuses and Lord Hummer himself will invite you to a magnificent feast. Dancers, together with musicians, jugglers will keep you entertained for the time being. If you shall not manage to safeguard the royal symbols the commander of your army will be denounced and your mercenaries will be called awful names. It will be only on the good will of the Lord of the Stronghold if he offers you protection or sends you away. This game is not intended for weak characters - Sweedish bandits have no merci!

Duration: 48 hodin
Numbers of players: 30 osob
Where: Hummer centrum s.r.o., Olomoucká 2332, Praha 9 - Horní Počernice

Personal and material back-up of the event:

  • Rent of the Hummer Stronghold
  • Rent of costumes, weapons, decoration, tents
  • Soldiers´ pay
  • Historical catering
  • The Executioner - a torture performance
  • Masseuses
  • Entertainment - musicians, fencers, dancers, jugglers
  • Accident insurance of the players
  • Other Excessive Burden

Program outlook

    1. day
  • During introduction the players will receive costumes, weapons and game roles.
  • Players under the guidance of their leaders will build a camp and its´ defence system.
  • Basic training, Introduction to weapons and basic commands.
  • Preparation of lunch, lunch, cleaning up.
  • After a short break the training continues with defence strategy learing, and false alarm training when attacked by bandits.
  • Mercenary games, free fencing workshops.
  • Preparation of dinner, dinner, cleaning up.
  • Free entertainent, musicians, dancers, mead.
  • Devision of night-guards and bedtime.

    2. day
  • Waking-up time and morning excersing with a weapon.
  • Morning hygine.
  • Preparation of breakfast, breakfast, cleaning up.
  • Taking down tents and destruction of the camp.
  • The Lord welcomes the heroes at his stronghold.
  • Feast.

Feast of the winners:

  • A toast to winners
    Celtic Mead
  • Hors d´ouvre
    sausages, blood sausages, smoked meat, cheese, vegetables, fruit, bread
    beer, wine, coffee, tea, mead
  • Main dish
    grilled chicken, pork knees, roasted beef, lamb ribs
    millet, mashed potatoes, and bread
    fruit and vegetables
    beer, wine, water, mead
  • Dezert
    Prague gossip cakes, Marry´s famous apple strudel, royal gingerbread
    coffee, tea, warm mead

Menu can be adjusted according to your likes and dislikes.

A Feast with Count Dracula

Gloomy atmosphere, dust, fog, fires burning, coffins with our not-long-gone beloved ones, and from all around strange noises and sounds can be heard. Shadows move in the dark and the first ones the guests can identify are Vampires. The only one who can save the guests at this moment is the huckesteress who offeres them objects - atributes which can save their lives from the blood thirsty Vampires.

Then enteres Count Dracula, and invites the elite guests to join the feast and accompanying entertainment.

A group of musicians already plays Mozart, Bach, and Händle tunes as well as other popular authors of those times at the dinner hall .

Suddenly comes Blade – the immortal figher with supernatural abilities and a heart of a hero. Magnificent Vampire style sword-fighting. Espana – pasionnate sword fighting of renesance cavaliers, Brilliant cord techniques...

Dracula´s mistersses – 3 dances performances full of surprises enlighten the dark atmoshpere. Our guests dance as well. At the end a fire show. The dinner hall can become a grand carnival round – face masks and rokoque cloaks are to be lended during „Dracula´s audience".

Aproximitely a 4 hour program filled with tension, secrecy, and life after death. Program arranged by the Merlet agency.

Feast for Rudolf II.

The whells of time spin again...

Suddenly we are in those days when stars designed the future of men. His honesty Rudolf II. prefers to be surounded by experts and inteligence. The Emperor is interested in science, art, astronomy, botanics, but is often decieved by different impostors...

Everyday life disapears from Prague streets and moves to pubs and taprooms.

The Emperor desires to be entertained acompanied by his fellow scholars....

The guests are welcomed by the Emperor Rudolf II. himself; His Majesty is present during the entire dinner.

Rudolf II. is actively engaged in his audience and presents the guests his favourite entertainment and dishes; on the sceene come jongleurs, sword fighters, dancers, a fakeer, musicians...

The program can be accompanied by several contests for the guest. Program arranged by the Merlet agency.

Family day

Our guests together with their families can enjoy a day full of games, adventure, and fairy tales and lesson learning. They can try crossbow shooting, walking on stilts, clay modeling, fighting with "mop"weapons, or attend fencing or theater performances.

Welcome

Guests are greeted at the entrance by maids and guards who inform them about the upcoming events.
The ceremony begins with live fanfare, heralds´ speech, and presentation on the program - then again fanfare - and at the end followed by the drummer beats the program is read out loud. The guests can expect a dance performance where they will be taught how to dance, and a fencing performance. They will also see and can try examples of old craft: blacksmith, masseuse, potter, laundress, rope-maker, penman, etc. The games begin on drummers´ command. Both adults´ and children can participate in individual contests, and their results will be recorded, or they will receive game cards, and coins according to their results. During the whole day live and recorded medieval music will accompany the event; for the children there are prepared fairy tales, painting coal, clay modeling - also a children's corner and a knight's tent.

Games for older children and adults:

  1. Crossbow shooting
  2. Cannon and double-barreled gun shooting
  3. Stilts walking
  4. Wooden target and mop weapon duel
  5. Driving the nail into a wooden block
  6. Castle and a small battering ram
  7. Medieval billiard
  8. Seven-skis
  9. Medieval triathlon – knights´ training
  10. Mouse racing
  11. Catapult shooting
  12. Tug-o-war

  • Other fencing performances: "Three masters", the masters of the renaissance era and German, Italian, and Spanish cavaliers or "Extracts from the Landsknecht show"
  • Extracts from battering ram shooting
  • We have prepared fairy tale theater performances for children and adults e.g. "Cursed princess" - theater and a bit of juggling, and others.
  • The juggler Vlček will present juggling, walking on glass and other tricks
  • Winners announcement; hostesses will collect game cards and the best knight of the day will be announced by the Harold who will hand him the main prize and a diploma

Number of contestants: 200

Program compiled by the group Berounští Měšťané. Starring exclusively the members of the historical sword fighting group Berounští Měšťané.

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