Students trained outside again on Wednesday night at our regular Godalming training session.
It was a night for some fun tournament practise with the bolognese group competing in the “Haribo Starmix Open” and the rapier & dagger group competing in the “Coca Cola Cup”.
We had a guest at our training in Reading tonight in the form of Enrico Stradioli from ASD Sala d’Arme Achille Marozzo Romagna Sforzesca.
Pim took the rapier & dagger group through some tournament prep, Simon continued his block on the dagger, and Lizzie and Josh worked with the new beginners on the fundamentals of swordfighting.
Sunday sparring was in Godalming this week with a number of students turning out to take advantage of the good weather and the opportunity to get some sparring in.
These free sessions for students allow them to get in some valuable sparring time, practising the techniques they’ve learnt in our training sessions. It also allows them to spar with people they don’t normally train with as well as try out some fun weapon combinations that are not part of our curriculum.
It was a hot night so we took to the tennis courts for our training session last Wednesday.
Fran took the rapier class whilst Adrian took the bolognese group through some tournament preparation.
Students from both Reading & Godalming met up in Hawley this past weekend to spar. There were a number of weapon combinations in play: single sidesword, sidesword & buckler, and rapier & dagger.
These free sessions for students allow them to get in some valuable sparring time, practising the techniques they’ve learnt in our training sessions. It also allows them to spar with people they don’t normally train with as well as try out some fun weapon combinations that are not part of our curriculum.
The School of the Sword is in Ireland this weekend at the Feile na Gascgeigh event where we are not only fighting in tournaments but also running a number of workshops.
Matthew Crane won silver in the Sword & Buckler competition, whilst Oli Barker also took silver in the rapier & companion weapon tournament. Congratulations to both of them.
Students came to Godalming on Wednesday night for our weekly training session, with three streams of study available.
Lizzie and Kaston worked with the beginners on preparing for their safety test, Adrian worked with the bolognese group and Fran took the rapier group.
Monday night saw our regular Reading session with two streams of training available.
Pim took the bolognese group through some sword & buckler whilst Jay went through single rapier.
Students gathered in Reading on Sunday for our latest Sunday sparring session.
These free sessions for students allow them to get in some valuable sparring time, practising the techniques they’ve learnt in our training sessions. It also allows them to spar with people they don’t normally train with as well as try out some fun weapon combinations that are not part of our curriculum.
Given the rare heatwave, students at Wednesday night’s training session got to train outdoors.
Fran worked with the rapier group on use of the dagger, Adrian continued his work on Manciolino with the bolognese group and Lizzie worked with the beginners approaching their safety test
