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18 06, 2023

School of the Sword Teaches At International Rapier Seminar in Poland

2023-06-20T16:54:47+00:00June 18th, 2023|Events, Oxford, Rapier|

Oxford Senior Instructor, Emilia Skirmuntt headed to Poland this weekend to teach at the International Rapier Seminar, where fencers travelled from all over the world to learn from renonwned instructors.  Emilia sparred with new and old friends from around the world and taught a (very experimental) workshop entitled  ‘Rapiers in the Dark’ during which participants learned how to fence with cape and sword, and cape and lantern.  She also helped as a referee during the single rapier tournament.

20 04, 2023

School of the Sword Heading To Poland

2023-04-20T19:59:14+00:00April 20th, 2023|Oxford, Rapier|

The School of the Sword will be heading to Warsaw, Poland this June, when Oxford head Instructor, Emilia Skirmuntt, will be instructing at the International Rapier Seminar 2023.  her workshop is entitled “Rapiers in the dark” learning techniques pairing a sword and lantern as well as complimenting them techniques from sword and cape.

The International Rapier Seminar is a three day event dedicated to the art of the rapier, with great instructors from all over the HEMA world.

18 04, 2023

School of the Sword To Teach At Fightcamp Skirmish 2023

2023-04-20T07:44:06+00:00April 18th, 2023|Events, Sword & Buckler|

June will see the return of Fightcamp Skirmish 2023 and an awesome class line up of some of the country’s best HEMA instructors.

Fran from our Godalming chapter will be in attendance teaching Bolognese Sword and Buckler.

For more details, check out http://fightcampevents.com/

28 03, 2023

Gathering Of Wolves – 27th / 28th March 2023

2023-04-20T19:41:20+00:00March 28th, 2023|Events, Godalming, Oxford|

Two School of the Sword instructors headed to Wales this weekend to teach at Gathering of Wolves.  Fran ran a workshop is entitled “The Right Place at the Right Time”, while Emilia had a great time teaching tomahawk and bowie knife with around 40 participants!

12 02, 2023

Winterkamp – 10th – 12th February 2023

2023-04-20T19:53:01+00:00February 12th, 2023|Events, Oxford|

The School of the Sword was in the Netherlands this weekend, as Oxford Head Instructor, Emilia Skiurmuntt headed to the Winterkamp event in Tilburg Netherlands, to teach an introduction to rapier. It was an amazing, friendly event with a good range of workshops and talks.  We hope everyone who attended Emilia’s workshop enjoyed it.

4 02, 2023

The School Of The Sword Instructors Heading To Wales

2023-02-04T11:18:42+00:00February 4th, 2023|Events|

Two of The School of the Sword’s senior instructors are heading to Wales in March to teach at The Gathering of Wolves

The Gathering of Wolves 2023 is the only event of its kind in Wales – a two-day HEMA event hosted in Cardiff, consisting of various workshops with instructors from across the UK as well as plenty of opportunities for friendly free sparring.

Emilia will be doing a workshop on Tomahawk and Bowie Knife whilst Fran’s workshop is entitled “The Right Place at the Right Time”

16 10, 2022

The School Of The Sword Celebrates 20th Anniversary

2022-10-19T07:18:48+00:00October 16th, 2022|Events, Reading|

This year sees the 20th anniversary of School of the Sword, and whilst we’re planning a year long celebration with most of the activities in the summer, next month we will be hosting a freeplay session, open to members of other schools, followed by a meal in Reading in the evening.

For full details and booking information, please consult [THIS LINK]

20 08, 2022

School Of The Sword Teaches At International Rapier Seminar 2022

2022-08-23T18:31:00+00:00August 20th, 2022|Events, Rapier|

School of the Sword instructor, Emilia, was in Copenhagen this weekend for the International Rapier Seminar.

Bringing together some of the world’s best instructors and practitioners of rapier, Emilia did a workshop entitled “Bringing A Rapier To A Bar Fight”, where she taught attendees about grappling techniques in rapier systems and how to use the rapier in confined spaces.

9 08, 2022

School of the Sword Heads To Copenhagen

2022-08-10T20:05:59+00:00August 9th, 2022|Events, Rapier|

Lead instructor of our Oxford chapter, Emilia Skirmuntt, will be heading to Copenhagen this month to teach at the International Rapier Seminar.  In her workshop, “Bringing A Rapier To A Bar Fight”, she’ll teach attendees about grappling techniques in rapier systems and how to use the rapier in confined spaces

For more details on the event and details of other instructors, please see the HEMA Copenhagen webpage.

10 07, 2022

Introduction to Historical European Martial Arts Course

2022-07-11T05:47:33+00:00July 10th, 2022|Dagger, Events, Sword & Buckler|

School of the Sword lead instructor, Fran Lacuata, was in Dorset this weekend teaching an introduction to Historical European Martial Arts course at the Ancient Technology Centre in Cranborne.

The course focused on teaching renaissance swordplay where participants could learn the basics of greatsword, sidesword, dagger, buckler and more!

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