Due to a medical emergency with the 5-A-Side football group that has the hall before us, our Godalming students took their training to the tennis courts for some outdoor training on Wednesday night.
Fran worked with the beginners working towards their safety test, Sasha worked with the rapier group, and Simon worked with the Bolognese group.
The School Of The Sword added to their medal tally this past weekend, with a couple of medals from the May Melee.
Alexander Makarov took gold and Jay Maxwell took silver in the sword and buckler tournament. Ties Kool of HVN took bronze. Congratulations to all winners.
Students gathered in Godalming on a very warm evening on the 24th May for our weekly Wednesday night training session.
Fran worked with the beginners working towards their safety test; Simon taught the Bolognese class looking at attacks and counters from guardia di sotto braccio; and Sasha took the rapier group through body mechanics and structure.
The Monday 22nd May 2017 training session saw the addition of two new studenti after both Dan and Chris passed their safety test and risen from the rank of Candidati.
After many weeks of hard work learning, Dan & Chris 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.
On the 22nd, our Reading students turned up for our regular Monday night training session.
Dan continued taking the single rapier group through Fabris, Matt worked with the beginners progressing towards their safety tests and Pim taught sword & buckler.
Students gathered in Godalming on the 17th for our weekly Wednesday night training session.
Lizzie worked with the beginners on defence against the thrust; Simon taught the Bolognese class looking at attacks and counters from guardia di sotto braccio; and Sasha took the rapier group through body mechanics and structure.
On the 15th, our Reading students turned up for our regular Monday night training session
Dan took the single rapier group through some Fabris, Pim taught sword & buckler and Matt worked with the beginners progressing towards their safety tests.
Students gathered in Godalming on the 14th May for our regular Sunday Sparring session.
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 on Wednesday for our regular weekly training session.
Sasha worked with the single rapier group. Adrian taught Bolognese sword & buckler and Fran worked with the beginners working towards their safety test.
After a bank holiday last week our Reading students were back on Monday for our regular training session.
Dan took the single rapier group through some Fabris, Pim taught sword & buckler and Matt worked with the beginners progressing towards their safety tests.
