It was our regular Swindon Training session tonight, and students were busy engaged in propelled cloak throws as part of our Sword & Cloak teaching block. We also continued our work in single sidesword by looking at opportunistic attacks.
It was the start of new training blocks at our Reading Chapter tonight. Josh took students through single rapier while Simon started his lessons in Sword & Dagger.
Our Swindon students gathered for their regular weekly training session tonight. We continued to look at Sword & Cloak, refining work we had already done before devoting the second half to a freeplay session to allow students to play with different weapon sets and skills they’ve recently picked up.
Our Swindon students have been doing a lot of work since the start of the year looking at the various aspects of Sword & Cloak. Tonight, we put that to the test by taking part in a cape wrapping competition. Students had to interpret Altoni’s source material and reproduce it for a competition organised by The Art of Arms Substack.
Our Swindon students have been studying Sword & Cloak since the beginning of the year and are now progressing onto advanced techniques. Tonight, at our regular weekly session, we looked at cloak defenses against cuts.
Tonight was our regular training night for our Swindon Chapter. Our students continued work on the duel streams we are currently studying: Sword & Cape and the foundations of Giovanni dall’Agocchie’s single sidesword.
Our Godalming students met up in Chilworth this weekend for the latest in the chapter’s regular sparring sessions. Sparring gives them a chance to exchange with students they might not have sparred with before, practise weapons that might not currently be in the training curriculum, as well as get some much needed time to incorporate new techniques and tactics into their swordplay.
It was the second week of the new term and tonight student’s continued progressing with work on our duel lesson block: looking at sword & cape as well as the foundations of Giovanni dall’Agocchie’s single sidesword.
Students from our Godalming Chapter met up in Chilworth this weekend for their regular weekly sparring session. These sessions give students chance to practise technics learnt in training as well as spar with partners they wouldn’t normally fight with.
A new year and our Swindon students started it by looking at two new weapon combinations. We started the evening looking at Dall’aggochie’s low guards as we start to learn single sidesword, and then also started our work on Sword & Cloak.
