A decent turnout on Wednesday for training in Godalming with three streams of learning.
Fran worked with the beginners with sword and buckler, the montante group were taken through a number of drills with Simon from our Reading salle, and the rapier group had a bit of tournament coaching with both single rapier and rapier & dagger ahead of the International Rapier Seminar this weekend.
Reading seem to be getting settled into their new venue with three streams of training taking place on Monday night.
The beginners continued with their foundations of swordplay, working on a little hand and foot co-ordination. Meanwhile the studente were split between Stewart teaching sidesword and dagger, and Matt’s lesson on sidesword and buckler.
Some really good progress made by all groups with some time at the end for people to engage in a little freeplay.
There was a good mix of weapons on Wednesday night. The montante class continued their progress with the weapon whilst in the rapier & dagger class, the students got in some tournament practise. There was even time for some sword & buckler in the freeplay session at the end.
A busy night in Reading as we welcomed a new batch of beginners. We were back at Academy Sport and made good use of the additional space.
Whilst the beginners began with some measure and voiding drills, the studente worked on a combination of sidesword & dagger and sidesword & buckler.
Thanks to Jubie for the pictures.
A busy night as always in Godalming on Wednesday with three training streams running.
Fran worked with the beginners progressing toward safety test, Lizzie continued her very popular class on the use of the Montante / Spadone and Pim progressed with his classes on tactics in rapier & dagger.
A fun night which left us feeling in need o liquid refreshment in the pub afterwards!
It was our final week at St Laurence before our move back to Academy Sport on the 4th April and as a result it was a busy session.
Lorcan worked with the candidati, whilst Mark took the Bolognese class. Others helped Matt with his process for onboarding experienced students into the school. And there was still a little time for plenty of sparring.
A great night with plenty of energy and activities going on.
Another busy night in Reading on Monday with a number of different streams running simultaneously that saw us engage in the use of single sidesword, sword & buckler, single rapier, rapier & dagger, sidesword & dagger, and rapier & cloak.
We were joined by a special visit from instructor Phil Marshall who got to see how much Reading students have progressed and grown since his last visit.
Wednesday saw the students from our Godalming Salle get their first introduction to use of the Montante / Spadone. This proved a very popular stream in Reading and also had a large take up from our Godalming students. A few, however, elected to join the rapier & dagger stream going over some of the fundamentals. Matt came along from Reading to take the Beginners.
An enjoyable night all round with high levels of enthusiasm and energy.
Despite the winter bugs confining some of our regulars to their sickbeds we had another busy night on Monday. Simon took the Montante group through some confined plays as well as strategies for an opponent with a rotella. Mark continued his work with the sidesword group and Matt was busy with the beginners preparing them for their safety tests at the end of the evening.
There was a lot of energy on Wednesday night which was put to good use with some new exercises in our warm up. Lizzie helped the beginners and recently passed studente progress. In the Sword & Buckler group, Pim covered close play, whilst in the rapier group Fran took the students through the mechanics of the lunge.
