Godalming Sparring – 23rd December 2023
Today saw our Godalming students had their final freeplay session of the year. There was a great turnout with a great array of disciplines on display.
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Swindon Training – 20th December 2023
It was the final training session of the year for our Swindon students and we had a tournament. Students not only competed but judged as well, gaining an appreciation for how difficult it is. Congratulations to Jonathan for winning the tournament and well done to all fencers for the quality of fencing on display.
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Godalming Training – 20th December 2023
It was the final training of the year last night, and in Godalming we celebrated with our traditional “Fight before Christmas” – a freeplay session of randomly selected weapons. We had partisans, poleaxes, flails, maces, all manner of sword of course, and even a pillow!
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Godalming Sparring – 16th December 2023
Our Godalming students met up today to practise a little free sparring with a number of different weapons. These sessions allow students to practise and refine techniques in class as well as give valuable experience of sparring with a multitude of different opponents.
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Swindon Training – 13th December 2023
It was free sparring night at Swindon tonight, where students got the chance to spar with a number of different weapons including daggers, rapiers, and smallswords. Students also got to play with Montantes, longswords and polearms in what was a fun filled but exhausting evening.
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Oxford Xmas Meal – 9th December 2023
Our Oxford students had a rare occasion to meet up today without any weapons as they enjoyed a Xmas meal together at a local pub. It’s been a fantastic year for the chapter filled with great fencing, tournaments and swords, and they are very much looking forward to welcoming new beginners in 2024.
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Swindon Training – 6th December 2023
Swindon students were treated to a special night, where they voted which concepts we’ve covered this autumn they wanted to revisit. They chose to look at second intention and the sidestep. They revisited old concepts, plus covered the areas in more depth. We also had a welcome half-time break with the strawberries Valentina brought for us.
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Godalming Sparring – 2nd December 2023
Some of our Godalming students met up today to enjoy some outdoors sparring. These sparring get-togethers provide the perfect opportunity to practise techniques learned in class as well as get experience of fighting against opponents they might otherwise not get regular practise against.
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Swindon Training – 29th November 2023
Our Swindon students were in a bind tonight – several, in fact – as we looked at blade mechanics and the basics of binding with the sword. We went through a number of drills focusing on the feedback of the bind before progressing that to look at covering your opponent’s sword without binding. We then went on to explore passing footwork. Some great observations and intense study.
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Medal Haul At Wessex League Swindon
All four chapters came together this weekend, as the final leg of the Wessex League Tournament came to Swindon, Students from our Godalming, Reading and Oxford chapters competed whilst our Swindon students got their first taste of tournaments from the sidelines, cheering everyone on.
School of the Sword came away with a number of medals despite some highly skilled competition.
Emilia Skirmuntt took gold in Women’s Rapier & Dagger, silver in Women’s longsword, as well as two golds in the overall league – Women’s longsword league and Women’s Multiple Weapon league
Magnus Kraken took silver in the Beginner’s Rapier & Dagger, with Lenny Sim taking Bronze
Kristian Barlow took bronze in Sword & Buckler.
Congratulations to Nigel Salt who narrowly missed out on a medal, gaining 4th place in Beginner’s Longsword.
Great fencing by all fencers, whether they won medals or not. They should all be proud, as we look to 2024 and our preparations
