Monday night saw the addition of new studenti after Paul, Magnus and Lenny passed their safety test and rose from the rank of Candidati.
After many weeks of hard work learning, Paul, Magnus and Lenny have shown that they have understood the foundations of swordplay and are now ready to engage in a wider range of training as a Studente.
Congratulations to all of them.
Members of our Oxford chapter met up today for some outdoor sparring. The days may be drawing in and getting colder but that didn;t stop their determination to get some extra practise and sparring in.
What with the pandemiic it’s been a long time since the school had a proper social. That all changed on Friday night when members of all chapters gathered in Reading for a night of food, drinks and sword related chat. It was good to catch up and meet members from other chapters we’d not encountered before. Thanks to Josh and Jubie for opening their house to us all.
Our Oxford students had a visitor from Oxford Sword and Staff to their regular outdoor weekly sparring session. They had great fun sparring with them across a number of different weapons.
School of the Sword saw a number of medals in the first round of the Wessex League, held in Didcot, Oxfordshire this past weekend.
Emilia Skirmunt head instructor at our Oxford chapter took silver in women’s saber, gold in women’s longsword, while Apollon Makropoulos, an instructor at our Godalming chapter, took bronze in Sword and Buckler.
Congratulations to both fencers in what, by all accounts, was an excellent event.
Members of our Oxford chapter met up today for some outdoor sparring. Students got some extra practise in with a number of weapons including longsword and daggers.
It was a busy night in Godalming tonight as the beginners’ group continued their introduction to swordplay, whilst the studente had the choice of two groups focusing on either sidesword or tournament prep.
Lots of people in class at Godalming tonight including our latest beginners group! Everyone got stuck in right away and was very enthusiastic about learning swords. We are looking forward to working with all of you over the coming weeks.
School of the Sword instructor, Emilia, was in Copenhagen this weekend for the International Rapier Seminar.
Bringing together some of the world’s best instructors and practitioners of rapier, Emilia did a workshop entitled “Bringing A Rapier To A Bar Fight”, where she taught attendees about grappling techniques in rapier systems and how to use the rapier in confined spaces.
Fightcamp is a long running UK event organised by our friends over at Schola Gladiatoria. It’s a fun weekend of camping, classes and camaraderie.
This year, two School of the Sword instructors were invited to teach. Adrian ran a rapier workshop on Alfieri and his classification of various fighters (as well as tactics on how to defeat all of them), while Fran held her workshop right after, focusing on how to look good with rapier. Both workshops were well attended, with plenty of eager students.
