Another busy night in Reading with two streams of learning available for our students to choose from. Matt continued his work looking at Fire’s poleaxe, whilst Chris took the Sword & Buckler stream
It was our regular weekly training session in Reading tonight, and the start of new training block. Chris lead one stream relating to sword & buckler, while Matt taught Fiore’s poleaxe
Our Oxford students met up again today for their regular Sunday sparring session. These sessions give students the chance to play with a range of weapons including those they might not currently be training, as well as practise techniques learned in class under sparring conditions.
It was the final training of the year last night, and in Godalming we celebrated with our traditional “Fight before Christmas” – a freeplay session of randomly selected weapons. We had partisans, poleaxes, flails, maces, all manner of sword of course, and even a pillow!
It was free sparring night at Swindon tonight, where students got the chance to spar with a number of different weapons including daggers, rapiers, and smallswords. Students also got to play with Montantes, longswords and polearms in what was a fun filled but exhausting evening.
Fightcamp is a long running UK event organised by our friends over at Schola Gladiatoria. It’s a fun weekend of camping, classes and camaraderie.
This year, three School of the Sword instructors were invited to teach. Fran ran a class on Anonimo Bolognese Poleaxe, Adrian ran a class on Active Buckler Defense and unfortunately the weather put a stop to Emilia’s class on dirty rapier tricks. All the students seemed to enjoy themselves, and it was good to catch up with members of the wider HEMA community after so long apart.
