Our Godalming students turned out on Wednesday night for a choice between three different streams of training.
Fran continued her lessons on sword & buckler tempo, Lizzie’s students progress with their introduction to Alfieri rapier, whilst Pim worked with the beginners working toward their safety test.
Another busy night in Reading on Monday night across three different streams of training for our students to choose from.
Stewart continued his lessons on Giganti rapier for beginners looking at a complex counter, whilst Lorcan lead the bolognese stream through counter attacks from Manciolino. Meanwhile, Fran worked with the beginners working toward their safety test.
The students of our Godalming salle were settling into the new larger hall for training on Wednesday night with a number of training streams on offer.
Lizzie continued her stream on Alfieri rapier, Fran continued hers on sword & buckler tempo and second intention, whilst Pim worked with the beginners working toward their safety test.
As always, our studente finished the evening with some sparring to put into practise some of the techniques they had learnt.
Last Monday saw our regular training session in Reading with three streams for our students to choose from.
Lorcan lead the bolognese stream through counter attacks from Manciolino, Stewart continued his stream on Giganti rapier for beginners, and Fran worked with the beginners working toward their safety test.
With a number of tournaments looming in the not too distant future, Sword of the School members took advantage of our regular weekend sparring sessions to get in some extra practise on Sunday morning.
On Sunday students from both Reading and Godalming got together for a morning of sparring.
Not only was this a good opportunity to get in a bit of additional sparring and training, but it was also a good way to practise ahead of a number of upcoming competitions.
A number of our students attended the May Melee in Bath at the weekend. With a mix of sparring, classes and two mixed weapon competitions the event has seen a growth in popularity.
We’re pleased that our very own Jay Maxwell managed to take silver in the Steel Open competition. By all accounts it was a fun weekend and even those who returned without any medals said they had a brilliant time.
A busy night in Godalming on Wednesday when our students gathered for another night of training,
Beginners worked on voiding and movement. The bolognese training stream carried on with work on tempi whilst the rapier group focused on the cavazioni.
A busy night in Reading on Monday night with three streams of training for our students to choose from.
Stewart continued his stream on Giganti rapier for beginners, whilst Lorcan lead the bolognese stream through counter attacks from Manciolino. Meanwhile, Fran worked with the beginners working toward their safety test.
Another busy night in Godalming on Wednesday with three simultaneous training streams running.
Beginners worked on voiding and movement. The sword and buckler group carried on with their tempi work whilst the rapier group worked on perfecting the cavazioni.
