Last Wednesday we officially welcomed and celebrated three of our “crossover” members, students who trained elsewhere before, or alongside their training with the School, with some excellent fights in their investiture assessments.
Part of the exam was a technical display which all three brought their own fighting expressions into. Well done to Mark, Lynette and James!
Monday saw our regular training session in Reading with multiple streams of training on offer to our students.
Matt continued his work with the rapier stream on rapier & cloak, Pim looked at deep targets with sword and buckler in the Bolognese stream, and Stewart worked with the students who recently passed their safety test.
Despite being that time of year when family commitments, christmas shopping and office parties get in the way of training we had a good turnout on Wednesday with three streams of training.
Fran worked with the beginners progressing towards their safety test, whilst Pim took theBolognese stream through some sword & buckler. Meanwhile, Lynette continued her work with the rapier & dagger group on Fabris.
It’s that time of year where many of our candidati who started back at the end of summer have reached the stage where they are ready to take their safety test.
The safety test is an in-house examination where the student must demonstrate control, efficacy and knowledge of the cuts and guards of bolognese swordplay. Only upon passing this will our candidati rise to the rank of studente where they will be able to partake in our other streams of training leading to full sparring.
Jake and James are the latest of our Reading candidati to pass the test and rise to the rank of studente. Congratulations to both of them for putting in such hard work and dedication
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Our rapier stream really got into the spirit of rapier & cloak on Monday night. Aside from being pictures of Renaissance sartorial elegance they found time for Matt to guide them through a number of plays using the cloak as a companion weapon with very effective results.
Meanwhile, Pim took the Bolognese group through hitting deep targets and Stewart worked with the beginners working towards their safety test.
Another busy night in Godalming on Wednesday night with a lot of study on guards, including a quiz for the beginners.
Pim took the Bolognese group whilst Lynette went through Fabris with the rapier & dagger group. Meanwhile, Fran worked with the beginners working towards their safety test.
It was an evening of sartorial elegance at Reading on Monday night as, under the tutelage of Matt, the rapier group began a block of training on the use of rapier & cloak.
Meanwhile the beginners continued their work towards the safety test and Pim took the Bolognese group.
The School of the Sword was present at the first ever Reading Comic Con this past week. Students from both our Reading and Godalming salle turned up over the two days to give demonstrations of the various weapons we train with. Not only did it educate the public about what we do and some of the differences between the fights they see in videogames and television with what happens in reality, it also gave our students hours to get some extra practise in.
Wednesday night saw our regular training session in Godalming with three different streams of learning.
Lynette worked with the rapier group on Fabris, whilst Adrian took the Bolognese group. Meanwhile Fran worked with the Beginners completeing their 6-week beginner’s course.
Monday saw our regular training night in Reading. Students turned out en force to take part in one of three streams.
Pim worked with the bolognese group whilst Adrian helped the beginners preparing for their safety test. There was also a third sparring stream allowing students to put some of the techniques they have learnt from previous weeks into practise.
