Students gathered in Godalming last Wednesday for our regular weekly training session.
Sasha continued his lessons on single rapier, Adrian worked with the Bolognese group and Fran helped the beginners progressing towards their safety test.
Monday saw our regular training night in Reading with three streams of training available for our students.
Jay took the Bolognese group, Matt worked with the single rapier group and Christophe worked with the beginners working their way towards their safety test.
Thanks to Josh for photo duties!
There was another good turnout to Sunday Sparring last Sunday with students from both Reading and Godalming turning up to practise their skills and try new techniques.
As always our students were good at giving each other constructive feedback. We believe that levelling up your sparring partner helps everyone in the long run.
Another busy night at Godalming this past Wednesday with three streams of learning taking place simultaneously.
Fran worked with the beginners progressing towards their safety test, Adrian worked with the bolognese group on attacks and counters with sword and buckler, and Sasha took the rapier group through their paces.
It was the start of new teaching blocks across all three training streams in Reading this week.
Jay took the bolognese group, Matt taught single rapier and Christophe worked with the beginners working towards their safety test.
Sunday sparring was in Reading this past weekend with a number of students turning up to practise multiple weapons, as well as play with combinations we don’t tackle in our training sessions.
As well as the staples of sidesword & buckler, and rapier & dagger students also took the opportunity to hone their skills with rapier & cloak as well as some tomahawk and knife.
Students gathered in Godalming this week for our regular Godalming training session.
Fran worked with the beginners on their foundation course, Adrian worked with the bolognese group on attacks and counters from Guardia Alta, and Sasha worked with the rapier group on footwork.
Another busy night in Reading on Monday night with our usual three streams of training available for students.
Adrian & Dan worked with the beginners, Matt took the Bolognese sword & buckler stream, and Pim worked with students on single rapier.
Sunday sparring was in Hawley again this past Sunday where students got another chance to put skills learnt during our training sessions into action.
Students put the two hours to good use with a large mix of weapons in play: Sideword & buckler, rapiers, daggers, cloaks, smallsword, and even some Montante.
After many weeks of hard work learning the foundations of swordplay we’ve seen a number of students ready to take the safety test that they need to pass in order to progress onto sparring and other training streams. The safety test shows they have understood the foundations of swordplay and are now ready to engage in a wider range of training as a Studente.
Congratulations to April who on Wednesday night became the latest member to pass their safety test and rise from the rank of Candidati to Studente.
