Godalming Training – 21st June 2023
Taking advantage of the warm weather, our Godalming students trained outside tonight, where there were a number of streams available focusing on both sidesword and rapier.
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Swindon Training – 21st June 2023
Week 5 of our beginner’s course at Swindon and students are making excellent progress. We focused on improving the quality of our cuts, working around a couple of injuries students had. It was great to see everyone actively jumping in to help others with learning the form. As a reward, the students all got a chance to hit a live target when the instructor geared up and they got to hit him (which they all seemed to relish for some reason!)
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Oxford Sparring – 18th June 2023
Our Oxford students held their regular outdoor sparring event again today, where students gathered to practise skills they have learnt in class, get in some much needed practise, and have some fun along the way.
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School of the Sword Goes to Skirmish
Eight members attended FightCamp Skirmish at Ripley in Surrey, this weekend. It was very hot but I think we all had fun and learned new things. It is always good to meet up with fencers from other clubs, two guys even came from Sweden just for the event.
Godalming Senior Instructor, Fran Lacuata, also taught a class on Bolognese Sword & Buckler
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School of the Sword Teaches At International Rapier Seminar in Poland
Oxford Senior Instructor, Emilia Skirmuntt headed to Poland this weekend to teach at the International Rapier Seminar, where fencers travelled from all over the world to learn from renonwned instructors. Emilia sparred with new and old friends from around the world and taught a (very experimental) workshop entitled ‘Rapiers in the Dark’ during which participants learned how to fence with cape and sword, and cape and lantern. She also helped as a referee during the single rapier tournament.
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Godalming Training – 14th June 2023
Three classes in Godalming tonight despite the oppressive heat! Single sword according to sainct Didier in the field, rapier invitations in the hall, and a beginners private lesson in the studio.
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Swindon Training – 14th June 2023
Week 4 of our beginner’s course and this week the students were starting to pull everything from previous weeks together. Despite the hot weather the hall was thankfully cool as we went through a number of drills to step while cutting as well as learn the next part of the form.
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Oxford Sparring – 11th June 2023
Our Oxford student’s braved the heat today to get in some much appreciated sparring practise.
Sparring sessions give students the chance to practise techniques they have learnt in class and work on incorporating them into their personal arsenal of moves, tricks and tactics.
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Swindon Training – 7th June 2023
The beginners at our new Swindon Chapter enjoyed their 3rd week of introduction to swordplay tonight, with the focus on cutting. Students finally got to start hitting things, fine tuning the measure and cuts they’d learned in previous weeks. Good progress by all.
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School of the Sword Sees Victory At Albion
The School of the Sword participated in this weekend’s Albion Cup Tournament. Competitors from around the world traveled to Marlow to fight it out in a number of different weapon disciplines.
As always, The School of the Sword was well represented and came away with a number of medals.
Congratulations to Oxford Instructor, Emilia Skirmutt who took an impressive gold in Women’s Single Rapier, Silver in Women’s Saber, and Bronze in Women’s Longsword.
Congratulations also to Kristian Barlow for taking 4th place in the Tier B Open Longsword.
Congratulations to all winners. By all accounts it was a fun and well run event
