Sword & Buckler
With tournament season in full swing, our Reading students continued their mini tournament prep and judging training. This included ways of changing your fight, judging and then closing with a friendly tournament.
Our Godalming students met up 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 our Godalming Chapter’s regular training night tonight and ahead of the new intake next week, students got to enjoy an evening of freeplay. These sessions give students the opportunity to get some sparring practise in against a range of students with a range of weapons, incorporating the various techniques learnt at training.
It was our Godalming Chapter’s regular training night tonight and to celebrate the 10th anniversary of the Godalming chapter, students were treated to a night of freeplay along with a mini tournament.
Our Godalming students gathered for their regular weekly training session tonight, with three streams of learning available. Fran looked at sidesword and dagger, April continued her work with the beginners and John hosted an impromptu lesson on tactics
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.
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.
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.
Our Oxford Chapter played host to our latest Freeplay Day where students from all chapters, along with friends from other clubs, join together for four solid hours of sparring. There was a good turnout and a lot of fun was had.
