Students gathered in Godalming tonight for our regular training session with two different streams on offer. Lynette continued her work looking into fight analysis, while Mark continued his lessons on sword and buckler.
It was our regular weekly training session in Reading tonight, and the start of new training block. James taught rapier & dagger while Jo took student through the first half of Dalla’gocchie’s “Stepping in guard” drill.
Sunday saw our Oxford students gather for a bit out outdoor freeplay. These sessions are always helpful. There’s only so much time during a lesson to learn a new technique and often the best way to practise it is to incorporate it into sparring.
Tonight saw our weekly training session in Oxford, and students had a guest instructor. Lynette, from our Godalming chapter, visited to instruct our students in tactics and tells.
It was our regular training session tonight, and due to the football numbers were low, so in place of our scheduled two sword work, we instead used this session to review student’s progress and give them an individual action plan and some coaching based on their individual strengths and weaknesses.
Tonight saw the latest in our weekly Godalming training sessions and the start of all new study blocks. Lynette started her lessons looking into Fight Analysis, while Mark took a second stream on sword and buckler.
Before the start of new training block next week, our Reading students gathered for our regular weekly training session to enjoy some freeplay. These sparring sessions give students the chance to play with a range of weapons including those they might not currently be training, as well as practise techniques learned in class under sparring conditions.
As is customary for our Godalming students, when a training block ends, there is typically a freeplay session for one week before the next blocks begin. Tonight was no exceptions with students sparring agaisnt each other with a multitude of weapons. There was also a Bring & Buy table, and sword maintenance table.
It was the end of our current streams of training tonight, before moving onto something new in the next week or two. Chris finished his stream on Sword & Buckler, while Matt finished his lessons in Fiore’s Poleaxe.
