It was our Godalming Chapter’s regular training night tonight and we welcomed a new intake of students who, over the course of the next few months, will be learning the fundamentals of swordplay. For other existing students there was a choice of two exciting streams on offer. Mark started a block looking at the poleaxe, while Mikolaj took students through the use of the sabre.
Due to the level of instruction we give new students, we only run beginners course and intake students at a few times a year at most. These tend to be over-subscribed and sell out quickly. The good news is that our Godalming chapter will be running a new intake in Septemeber, beginning on the 11th. If you’ve ever wished you could learn to swordfight, or have an interest in historical martial arts, now’s the perfect time.
Details and sign up can be found at: https://manager.dojoexpert.com/student/register.aspx?g=8C01955D-8D86-4889-8E42-AFCFBD77D664&j=en-GB
Oxford welcomed a new batch of candidati today with the start of their beginners course. Over the next few weeks, students will get to learn the foundations of swordplay. Lots of good work and fun had by all
Tonight our Godalming chapter welcomed our latest group of fencers embarking our beginners course in sidesword and buckler. They worked super hard and we look forward to training together over the coming weeks.
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.
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.
It was the second week of our new Swindon Chapter, and students spent the evening focusing on the buckler. We did a number of drills to work on placement and measure, before ending up having a mini glove fighting tournament.
Enrolment is now open for our next beginners’ intake in Godalming, Surrey starting 10 May. These spaces usually go fast so don’t delay
The beginners course includes:
It was the last side sword lesson from Kristian, at our regular Oxford training session, this evening, as well as the last beginner’s course lesson from Louis! Our new instructors have done splendidly with their lesson blocks at our Oxford chapter and everybody has enjoyed their instruction!
Lots of hard work in tonight’s class in Godalming: beginners, Sword and buckler, and Sword and cape class.
