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.
Three full and fun classes at our Godalming chapter tonight at our regular training session, with rapier, single sidesword, and beginner’s sword and buckler streams all running for students to choose between.
Our Oxford students took advantage of the Bank Holiday today to meet up for some outdoors sparring.
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.
Oxford played host to a special freeplay day today where students as well as members from other clubs were invited up to spar with one another. Many thanks to all our members and friends from other clubs – some who’d come a long way- who made this sold out event so much fun!
At the end of each training block we have a night of freeplay. Tonight, it was Godalming’s turn. We also held gradings where three beginners graduated to full membership. Congratulations to Jonathan, Jeremy and Michael who rise from the rank of candidati to Studenti
Tonight saw our regular Reading training night Two streams with multiple streams for senior students to choose from based on their own weapon preferences or learning path. James took students through some Marozzo Bolognese while Josh continued his lessons on Fabris’ rapier and dagger
Students from our Oxford chapter met up this weekend for some extra sparring. 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.
Another busy night at our Godalming chapter with multiple streams for students to choose from. In our Sword and Buckler group tonight we looked at the 15th and 11th falso on falso plays from Chapter 3 of Manciolino. Whilst in tonight’s smallsword group,we revised Angelo’s salute, practiced thrusting in carte and tierce at a fixed target and worked on Angelo’s feints, ending with a session of Freeplay.
