Wednesday night saw our regular training session in Godalming.
Fran worked with the beginners partaking on our 6 week introduction course to the foundations of swordplay. Meanwhile Lynette taught the rapier class whilst Adrian took the Bolognese group.
Last Monday, our students gathered in Reading for our regular training session with three streams of training on offer.
Simon worked with the be ginners progressing towards their safety test. Jay worked with the Bolognese group and Pim took the rapier & dagger lesson.
Students from both Godalming and Reading gathered in Hawley on Sunday for our regular Sunday Sparring event.
These free sessions for students who have passed their safety test allow them to get in some valuable sparring time, practising the techniques they’ve learnt in our training sessions. It allows them to spar with people they don’t normally train with as well as try out some fun weapon combinations that are not part of our curriculum.
Students gathered in Godalming on Wednesday night for our weekly training session.
Lynette took the rapier group, whilst Adrian taught sword & buckler and Fran worked with the beginners on the foundations of swordplay as part of their beginners’ course.
Monday saw our regular training session in Reading.
Matt worked with beginners working towards their safety test, Jay took the Bolognese class and Pim taught rapier & dagger.
Students gathered in Reading last Sunday for our regular Sunday Sparring event. There were a range of weapons in play including sideswords, daggers, longsword and sword & buckler.
These free sessions for students who have passed their safety test allow them to get in some valuable sparring time, practising the techniques they’ve learnt in our training sessions. It allows them to spar with people they don’t normally train with as well as try out some fun weapon combinations that are not part of our curriculum.
Head Instructor, Fran Terminiello, was recently in Seattle to teach a number of workshops at the Swordsquatch event. Whilst there she was interviewed by local newspaper, The Stranger.
It’s good to see word of the school reaching around the world, and a fun article on someone’s first experiences of HEMA and its community. Be sure to check it out HERE (although if there’s one correction: Fran isn’t LIKE a matriarch, she IS the matriarch!)
The School of The Sword turned up en masse in Bristol this past weekend to compete in the inaugural first event in the Wessex League. The Wessex League is a series of tournaments aimed at all HEMA practitioners that want to experience competition for the first time or to step up their game. It has the format of international HEMA competition while remaining accessible and friendly.
Members of the school performed well in competition, with us taking away a number of medals and currently ranking a very solid first in the team competition.
Congratulations to all the winners!
Students gathered in Godalming on Wednesday night for our weekly training session.
Pim took the rapier group, whilst Adrian taught sword & buckler and Fran & Terry worked with the beginners on the foundations of swordplay as part of their beginners’ course.
Ingo is the latest of our students to pass his safety test and join the ranks of our Studenti.
In order to pass the safety test students must demonstrate control, efficacy and knowledge of the cuts and guards of bolognese swordplay.
Ingo will now be able to progress to taking part in many of our other training streams as well as full sparring.
