Congratulations to members of our Oxford chapter who were not only the hosts but were in competition against the country’s best at the first leg of the Wessex League held in Oxford this past weekend. Emilia Skirmuntt took silver in Women’s+ Longsword and Women’s+ Rapier & Dagger, whilst Charlotte Barlow took Gold in Women’s+ Rapier & Dagger. Congratulations to all winners
All four chapters came together this weekend, as the final leg of the Wessex League Tournament came to Swindon, Students from our Godalming, Reading and Oxford chapters competed whilst our Swindon students got their first taste of tournaments from the sidelines, cheering everyone on.
School of the Sword came away with a number of medals despite some highly skilled competition.
Emilia Skirmuntt took gold in Women’s Rapier & Dagger, silver in Women’s longsword, as well as two golds in the overall league – Women’s longsword league and Women’s Multiple Weapon league
Magnus Kraken took silver in the Beginner’s Rapier & Dagger, with Lenny Sim taking Bronze
Kristian Barlow took bronze in Sword & Buckler.
Congratulations to Nigel Salt who narrowly missed out on a medal, gaining 4th place in Beginner’s Longsword.
Great fencing by all fencers, whether they won medals or not. They should all be proud, as we look to 2024 and our preparations
Our Reading students were practicing for upcoming tournaments this week by holding their very own Sword & Buckler tournament. Using the rule set from the Wessex League, students fought valiantly for the amazing prize of some runner beans. Perhaps unexpectedly, this is not the most trivial thing we’ve ever had as an internal prize. Congrats to the winners! Enjoy your beans!
School of the Sword was competing in tournament this weekend with three of our chapters taking medals . Emilia took gold in Women’s Sword & Buckler, as well as bronze in Women’s Longsword; Lenny took silver in the Beginner’s open steel Sword & Buckler, whilst Mike took Bronze. A lot of other students narrowly missed out on medals.
Congratulations to all winners, and we look forward to the next leg which will be held in Taunton.
Our Oxford students were in fighting force today, e fighting at the Midsummer Fight’s Dream competition in Oxford (organised by our friends from Oxford Sword and Staff Club).
Everybody did brilliantly with four students attending and all of them getting out to eliminations – and even one bronze match. We’re all extremely proud of them.
The School of the Sword participated in this weekend’s Albion Cup Tournament. Competitors from around the world traveled to Marlow to fight it out in a number of different weapon disciplines.
As always, The School of the Sword was well represented and came away with a number of medals.
Congratulations to Oxford Instructor, Emilia Skirmutt who took an impressive gold in Women’s Single Rapier, Silver in Women’s Saber, and Bronze in Women’s Longsword.
Congratulations also to Kristian Barlow for taking 4th place in the Tier B Open Longsword.
Congratulations to all winners. By all accounts it was a fun and well run event
Congratulations to Mikołaj Krukowski from our Godalming chapter who took bronze in the Open Sabre competition at last weekend’s Wessex League Southampton. Well done to all the School of the Sword participants and, as always, congratulations to all winners.
School of the Sword saw a number of medals in the first round of the Wessex League, held in Didcot, Oxfordshire this past weekend.
Emilia Skirmunt head instructor at our Oxford chapter took silver in women’s saber, gold in women’s longsword, while Apollon Makropoulos, an instructor at our Godalming chapter, took bronze in Sword and Buckler.
Congratulations to both fencers in what, by all accounts, was an excellent event.
The School of the Sword attended the Helsinki Bolognese Open in Finland last weekend and added to our 2017 medal tally as a result.
SOTS instructor, Jay Maxwell, won silver in the Triathlon, silver in Solo Forms, as well as bronze in the Single Sidesword.
Congratulations, Jay, on another good performance.
The School of the Sword came away with a number of new medals at the Bath Chapter of the Wessex League this past weekend.
The Wessex League is a series of tournaments aimed at all HEMA practitioners that want to experience competition for the first time or to step up their game. It has the format of international HEMA competition while remaining accessible and friendly.
The School of the Sword continues to do well in the team competition after coming away with another 4 medals
Congratulations to all the winners!
