Monday 29 onwards class plan...

Monday 29th Barbican: Longsword; Well done to those of you who made through the tube strike and made it to last night training, you all did great, we were going to do the zwerch and countering the soft, however the lesson branched out into a discussion and practical on tactile sensitivity, most of which was bought on by your own readings of the pressures you were experiencing, very well done.


Tuesday 30th Hither Green: longsword; BURN NIGHT, due to  the snow and awful conditions, burn night is still on bring a jumper for afterwards, tonight is high rep HIRTS work with the zwerch and counters.
Look forward to seeing you there.

London Longsword Academy: training guide Monday 22 Nov onwards

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Monday 22nd Barbican: Longsword zwerch and counter, cutting practice.
Tuesday 23rd Hither Green: BURN NIGHT intense longsword drilling, resistance training at the OLF gym, Zwerch and counters.
Wednesday 24th Blackfriars: Rapier, by appointment only.
Longsword zwerch and counters, cut drilling.
Thursday 25th Bromley:Longsword zwerch and counters.
Sword & buckler entering in half shield first ward counter.
Friday 26th Sutton: Short Staff 4th form.
Longsword zwerch and counters.

A brief introduction: the LLA's Burn Night...

The rest of the week...

Wednesday Blackfriars: Rapier- invited student only.
Longsword- more krieg work, harder faster.
Thursday Bromley:  Longsword-free cutting, flow drills, constant motion in sparring.
Friday Sutton: Longsword-krieg work, short staff-fourth form lower right binds.

Tuesday 16th BURN NIGHT

Tuesday night is Burn Night, at the O.L.F gym in Hither Green, Longsword cutting drills on the H.I.R.T.S (high intensity rope training system) not only does it make a big  difference to your longsword cutting ability, good strength, good cardio and it's a hell of a lot of fun.
We may video this session.
See you there, Dave
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Monday 15th Barbican class.

Barbican class tonight, mixed weapon circuit training, Krieg with the longsword, subjection with the rapier, sword and buckler transitional cutting, and fifth form with the short staff.

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Sutton Friday 12th

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Krieg work from last weeks class.

 

 

 

 

Short staff again this week, the 5' staves have arrived and they are a fair bit stronger, so we can up the training a notch. Look forward to seeing you there.
Dave

Thursday Nov 11

We were going to practice the krieg last night, but due to the great effort put in by the students at the start of the lesson (some of whom were still feeling the rigours of Tuesday's Burn Night) We instead worked on flowing and multiple cuts, moving this approach (constant cutting) into a bouting environment. Everyone made progress this week, special mention however to Steve C who seems to have leapt a level in his understanding.

Wednesday class details.

Rapier: It's a week off for rapier this week, classes resume as normal next week.

Longsword: Krieg, war work, zornhau, wind, wind and disengage. Simple and with lots of repetition, also counter thrusts.
Look forward to seeing you there, Dave

Burn Night. Tuesdays at optimal life fitness.

This Tuesday saw a change of pace, an hour of full on longsword resistance training, Bungees, bag work, high rep drilling, with everyone leaving the hall slightly burnt out but buzzing.
It's a perfect way for beginners to learn (no time or need to be precise, just work it) and an awesome way for the more advanced to push themselves to their limits.

As a result of this Tuesdays longsword class, is going to get more intense and more high rep. Are you ready for Burn Night?

And now, some good examples...

Fun as it was to teach the All Blacks, what you see them displaying in the (previous post)is mainly childish flailing, that's to be expected, as they only had an hour to train. However, I wanted to show these clips from the 2010 swordfish finals as it shows fencers at the height of their game.

In the first clip Axel P and his trainer Anders L fence with steel longswords



and in the second (the rapier final)Phil and Colin, look at 2.15-2.19 for an excellent example of the correct mind set, Phil attacks, then immediately moves back, fully mindful of his defence afterwards, outstanding.



I hope you enjoy this, Dave

Tonight and the All Blacks

Tonight there is a slight change of plan, tonight is krieg, working the close winding with the sword.




In the mean time however here is the clip of me teaching the All Blacks on Friday just gone, enjoy: