Our Swindon students have been doing a lot of work since the start of the year looking at the various aspects of Sword & Cloak. Tonight, we put that to the test by taking part in a cape wrapping competition. Students had to interpret Altoni’s source material and reproduce it for a competition organised by The Art of Arms Substack.
Our Swindon students have been studying Sword & Cloak since the beginning of the year and are now progressing onto advanced techniques. Tonight, at our regular weekly session, we looked at cloak defenses against cuts.
Tonight was our weekly Swindon Training session and our students were busy continuing their work looking at Sword & Cloak. Tonight they were looking at defense against low line cuts. A lot of good work by all with some really taking to the new weapon combination.
Tonight was our regular training night for our Swindon Chapter. Our students continued work on the duel streams we are currently studying: Sword & Cape and the foundations of Giovanni dall’Agocchie’s single sidesword.
It was the second week of the new term and tonight student’s continued progressing with work on our duel lesson block: looking at sword & cape as well as the foundations of Giovanni dall’Agocchie’s single sidesword.
A new year and our Swindon students started it by looking at two new weapon combinations. We started the evening looking at Dall’aggochie’s low guards as we start to learn single sidesword, and then also started our work on Sword & Cloak.
It was the final training session of the year for our Swindon students and we had a tournament. Students not only competed but judged as well, gaining an appreciation for how difficult it is. Congratulations to Jonathan for winning the tournament and well done to all fencers for the quality of fencing on display.
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.
Swindon students were treated to a special night, where they voted which concepts we’ve covered this autumn they wanted to revisit. They chose to look at second intention and the sidestep. They revisited old concepts, plus covered the areas in more depth. We also had a welcome half-time break with the strawberries Valentina brought for us.
Our Swindon students were in a bind tonight – several, in fact – as we looked at blade mechanics and the basics of binding with the sword. We went through a number of drills focusing on the feedback of the bind before progressing that to look at covering your opponent’s sword without binding. We then went on to explore passing footwork. Some great observations and intense study.
