School of the Sword instructor, Emilia, was in Copenhagen this weekend for the International Rapier Seminar.
Bringing together some of the world’s best instructors and practitioners of rapier, Emilia did a workshop entitled “Bringing A Rapier To A Bar Fight”, where she taught attendees about grappling techniques in rapier systems and how to use the rapier in confined spaces.
Fightcamp is a long running UK event organised by our friends over at Schola Gladiatoria. It’s a fun weekend of camping, classes and camaraderie.
This year, two School of the Sword instructors were invited to teach. Adrian ran a rapier workshop on Alfieri and his classification of various fighters (as well as tactics on how to defeat all of them), while Fran held her workshop right after, focusing on how to look good with rapier. Both workshops were well attended, with plenty of eager students.
Tonight at our Godalming chapter, the longsword group joined the tournament prep group for some tournament style judged bouts. Everyone had a turn at fighting and judging and some fine fencing ensued.
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Our new Oxford beginners continued training alongside advanced students this week. Everybody did brilliantly and we all look forward to the next week’s lesson.
Lead instructor of our Oxford chapter, Emilia Skirmuntt, will be heading to Copenhagen this month to teach at the International Rapier Seminar. In her workshop, “Bringing A Rapier To A Bar Fight”, she’ll teach attendees about grappling techniques in rapier systems and how to use the rapier in confined spaces
For more details on the event and details of other instructors, please see the HEMA Copenhagen webpage.
Another busy session at Godalming tonight. The longsword group worked on low guards, while the tournament prep group discussed the use of a ‘corner’ person and held a mini pool. Each fighter fought against the others in the pool and there were some excellent bouts. Everyone won at least one bout and everyone scored points in every bout.
Tonight saw the start of our new beginners course in Oxford where students got their first taste of fighting with longsword.
Tonight our Oxford chapter was learning defences with a sword in scabbard!
Remember, our new Oxford beginner’s course starts next Wednesday. So if you want to learn swordfighting with us just register HERE
Tonight we had three groups: study group, longsword and tournament practice.
In the study group, we are free to practice whatever we fancy drawing from a selection of sources. Tonight it was Cavalcabo, Bartitsu and Domenico Angelos smallsword.
The longsword group worked on cuts following the Meyer square, putting a music stand to good use!
And John introduced members to the rules, practices and roles of a tournament.
Our chapters only take in students a couple of times a year, with some having long backlogs. Our Oxford chapter is now taking registrations for beginners. Starting at the end of July, you’ll begin with Italian longsword.
Our instructors are invited to teach worldwide, so don’t miss this opportunity to learn from some of the best. Places are very limited, so act now as it may be a while before places open in Oxford again.
