Monthly Archives: September 2018

The School had eight reasons to celebrate after several members took part in the Wessex League’s second event of the year in Taunton this weekend. Congratulations to the following people:

Matthew Crane – open rapier and dagger 1st

Adrian Faulkner – open sword and buckler 2nd and open rapier and dagger 2nd

Emilia Skirmuntt – women’s sabre 1st and women’s longsword 3rd

Fran Terminiello – women’s sabre 2nd and women’s longsword 2nd

Stewart Hotston – open sword and buckler 3rd

Well done also to Andy Bone, Apollon Makropoulos, Chris Bear, James Barker, John Waller for some brilliant performances in both Sword & Buckler and Rapier & Dagger.

Preparations and training for Wessex League Cardiff are already under way.

We had an energetic evening of coaching in rapier and dagger, and Manciolino’s closed play in the Bolognese group. All good prep for those attending The Taunton Chapter of the Wessex League this weekend. Lots of luck to those taking part.

Lead instructor Emilia taught the first class of the beginners course at our new chapter in Oxford this evening. We were fully booked as eager new students picked up the longsword for the first time and learned about the principles of longsword according to Fiore dei Liberi.

Classes take place each Thursday at Magdalen College School.

Sots brought home wins from the first leg of the Wessex League 2018 hosted by London Historical Fencing Club this weekend in south London.

Reigning league champion for open r&d Stewart Hotston took gold in open rapier and dagger as well as silver in open sword and buckler.

And women’s longsword league winner 2017 Fran Terminiello took gold again in women’s longsword. Emilia Skirmuntt placed bronze. And for women’s rapier and dagger Fran and Emilia placed silver and bronze respectively. Well done to all SoTS members who not only competed admirably and with great skill but also worked hard to staff this event.

The league, in its second year, has several School members on the organising committee, Sots hosted the second chapter last year in Reading.

The next chapter takes place in Taunton on 29/30 September and is hosted by Taunton Longsword Association.

We had a busy session this afternoon in Godalming, with the Wessex League starting next Saturday in London it was probably not surprising that a lot of us wanted to hone our skills.

It was also the end of Mark’s block on Agrippa single sword so lots of people wanted to use the time to try out what they had learned.

On Wednesday Lynette will continue her block on rapier & dagger, and Simon will be joining us to look at sidesword and parrying gauntlet according to the Anonimo Bolognese as translated by Piermarco.