Burn Night Update

Here are a few pictures from tonight's BURN NIGHT, it was an amazing effort by everyone, again as I said in the earlier blog, we practised Zwerch and counter with the longsword, and thrust, followed by enter trap and strike (bind, knock, strike) on the pads, towards the halfway mark as we had an extra student show up, we added squinter against long point, again, all on the H.I.R.T.S cords.

 

David R (me) explaining the bind/knock/cut on the pads.

 Each move was of course explained beforehand in detail, this only took around five minutes out the total hour though, so the rest really was down to getting on the hurt.

On the H.I.R.T.S, one minute on one minute off.

This general regime was pretty simple, I explained the technique, then each side did a minute right handed, then changed to the left hand and did a minute left handed each. So we worked in circuits of four minutes on each drill.

At this point Mike (rear right in the red top), started to believe he could fly.

After each four minute circuit, we changed, each pair moving to a new drill.

we had three drills 2 longsword (zwerch, and squinter) and one sword and buckler. So everyone had twelve minutes of high resistance workout, followed by a review of what had happened (around four minutes) then off again.

Andy S goes all Ninja (right rear).

 Overall we kept the loop going for just shy of an hour, very little stoppage, very well done, and of course, we get to do it all again next week...

Those who joined me at this weeks BURN NIGHT were...

Pete Samworth Instructor of Folkestone Boar's Tooth

Mike "wingman" Nevell.

Adam Chandler (who for some reason didn't come out in focus in any pics, creepy).

Bert "I know something you do not know" Sowerby...He's not right handed.

And Steve, who I think practices this face in front of the mirror.

Again, very well done guys, I look forward to next week.