Sunday Sparring was in Hawley this week with students from both our Reading & Godalming groups meeting up.
The sparring provides an ideal opportunity for students to fight people they don’t normally fight as well as put into practise techniques they have learnt during training.
Students gathered in Godalming last Wednesday for the latest in our weekly training sessions.
Sasha worked on single rapier, Adrian taught the Bolognese group and Fran worked with the beginners progressing towards their safety test.
Students gathered in Reading on Sunday for our regular weekly sparring session. These Sunday sessions give our students time to practise techniques they’ve learnt at training as well as spar with students they don’t normal face.
We made good use of the couple of hours, leaving the venue suitably exhausted.
Our Godalming students all met up last Saturday night for a social.
We met in the pub for drinks before moving onto a local Thai restaurant for food and sword talk.
It was a fun night in Godalming last Wednesday with an evening of sparring and tournaments.
Aside from free sparring, we ran a fun sword & buckler tournament for our studenti and a foam boffer tournament for the beginners.
Pictures: Richard Hughes
Monday night saw the addition of two new studenti after both Lee and Sarah passed their safety test and risen from the rank of Candidati.
After many weeks of hard work learning, Lee & Sarah have shown that they have understood the foundations of swordplay and are now ready to engage in a wider range of training as a Studente.
Congratulations to the pair of them.
Monday night saw students return after the Easter break to our regular Monday night training in Reading.
As we have another bank holiday next week (and hence no training! Boo!) the training session was given over to sparring. Whilst Christophe continued to work with the beginners progressing towards their safety test, our studenti spent the night fighting each other with a range of different weapon combinations.
Remember: No training next week due to May Bank Holiday.
Students gathered in Hawley on Sunday for the latest in our regular Sunday sparring sessions.
These are currently being put on for free for our students to provide them some extended sparring practise with the weapons they learn on our regular training nights.
It was a very busy night last Wednesday at our regular Godalming training session.
Students were treated to a handling session of real antique smallswords, rapiers and daggers. Both the rapier & bolognese training streams got to enjoy some extended sparring as well which included some melee games and fun weapon combinations. The beginners continued to work towards their Safety Test.
Godalming students gathered for our regular Wednesday night session with three training streams on offer.
Pim worked with the single rapier stream, Adrian continued his work with the Bolognese students on sword & buckler, and Fran taught the beginners working towards their safety test.
