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19 08, 2023

Coming of Age Event: Day 1

2023-08-23T07:44:55+00:00August 19th, 2023|Dagger, Events, Godalming, Longsword, Oxford, Rapier, Reading, Sidesword, Swindon, Sword & Buckler|

It was a jam-packed day of workshops on the first full day of our Coming of Age celebration event.  Students from all four of our chapters gathered on the banks of the Thames to partake in a wide range of workshops put on by our instructors.

Lizzie gave an introduction to Spadone, Dan looked at Alfieri humors, Apollon gave a Rapier masterclass, Kirstian taught an introduction to Longsword, Adrian gave a masterclass on use of the buckler, Simon looked at Godhino’s Montante, Luis introduced us to grappling, and Mark gave a workshop on Agrippa.  All were well attended with lots of happy students enjoying the perfect weather.

We ended the first day of workshops with Simon and Josh from our Reading Chapter completing the final piece of their Spadaccino grading.  Spadaccino is the most senior rank in the school and as part of it, they have to engage in a number of fights including a weapon they’ve never used before which in their case were peasant flails.  Congrats to both of them for a well deserved honour. which has required huge number of hours of dedicated training as well as written pieces.

18 08, 2023

Coming of Age Event: Friday Night Social

2023-08-23T07:27:49+00:00August 18th, 2023|Godalming, Oxford, Reading, social, Swindon|

This weekend sees our 21st Anniversary celebration with a range of workshops from instructors from all four of our chapters.  However, before the weekend could begin, we needed to partake in a little light liquid refreshment as we made our way into the town of Marlow for some pub food and celebrate the first time that students from all four of our chapters have gathered together.

The food was excellent and the company was brilliant, setting us up for what promises to be an exemplary event weekend.

16 08, 2023

Godalming Training – 16th August 2023

2023-08-17T15:52:28+00:00August 16th, 2023|Dagger, Godalming, Longsword, Sidesword, Sword & Buckler|

In Godalming tonight we continued our Sword and dagger block with an evening of defence at the stage drills. The longsword class looked at Meyers square and the beginner’s group looked into body mechanics with the aid of spadone.

9 08, 2023

Godalming Training – 9th August 2023

2023-08-12T12:06:40+00:00August 9th, 2023|Dagger, Godalming, Sidesword|

Another busy night in Godalming tonight as students learned a play from Marozzo as part of our sword and dagger block.  Lots of good focus across an enjoyable evening

 

29 07, 2023

Godalming Cutting Party – 29th July 2023

2023-08-12T12:44:28+00:00July 29th, 2023|Godalming|

Students from our Godalming chapter as well as some from other chapters gathered for an afternoon of cutting things with swords.  Whilst we don’t use sharps in our training for obvious safety reasons, it’s a useful part of our training to get the experience of cutting at inanimate objects to see just how good our blade alignment really is.  And so sideswords, sickles, spears and more were set to task against objects such as milk bottles, fruit, clay and even a birthday cake.  A lot of fun was had by all.

26 07, 2023

Godalming Training – 26th July 2023

2023-07-27T23:15:58+00:00July 26th, 2023|Dagger, Godalming, Longsword, Sidesword|

A thoroughly sweaty and hard working session in Godalming tonight as we continued the Sword and dagger course and began the longsword block.

Our beginner stream continued as well: look out for our next enrollment coming soon for September intake.

22 07, 2023

School of the Sword Instructor Gives Students HEMA Taster Session

2023-07-23T18:15:09+00:00July 22nd, 2023|Events, Godalming, Sidesword|

Godalming head instructor, Fran Lacuata was at Imperial College London today to  give a HEMA taster lesson to a bunch of students.

They were introduced to sabre, sidesword and spadone and were , in Fran’s words. “all absolute champs!”

19 07, 2023

Godalming Training – 19th July 2023

2023-07-20T16:33:19+00:00July 19th, 2023|Dagger, Godalming|

Tonight in Godalming we had a very full Sword and dagger class focusing on dall’Agocchie’s principles. We incorporated lots of flow drills and finished with a game of Monarch of the Mountain before debrief.
12 07, 2023

Godalming Training – 12th July 2023

2023-07-20T17:12:00+00:00July 12th, 2023|Dagger, Godalming, Sidesword|

Students at Godalming got to enjoy the start of a new stream tonight, looking at sword and dagger.  They looked at the principles of dall’Agocchie – matching the guards between the weapons; parrying with the True Edge of the dagger on the outside, and with the flats or true edge to the inside.

5 07, 2023

The School of the Sword Welcomes Two New Laureandos

2023-07-09T22:16:49+00:00July 5th, 2023|Godalming|

It was a special night in Godalming tonight, as the school saw two students rise to the rank of Laureando.

Laureando is the second exam students at the School can take after their initial safety test (which makes sure they are safe to spar). The laureando typically after 200 hours of study and some experience of teaching others.

April and John untook a number of bouts with a variety of weapons ending in an exchange against a weapon they hadn’t encountered before.  They had each submitted a written piece prior to tonight.

Congrats to both. It’s taken a lot of hard work but is well deserved.

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