LLA Sutton, Sword and buckler December 17th

London Longsword Academy Sutton is to date my smallest class, but one of my favourites, the effort and humour put in by the (currently 2) students there is phenomenal, very much a case of get in there, push yourself hard, have a giggle along the way, but do not let that you stop moving. The students there exemplify that approach.

Last night was sword and buckler, lots of it... Straight into cutting transitions to warm up. ten minutes then quickly onto pad work.

The work begins.

The drills (I'm sure you are going to see a these soon) are designed to maximise your timing in attacking or trapping, making the system of  I.33 simple and instinctive to use.

Making Mr T work the pads.

And that is what we did for the whole session, egging each other on, building the tempo...

Great work, the lesson flew by, we even managed to carry on training when Toby missed the block on two shots, somehow managing to carry on entering and attacking while half folded up in laughter, I think I've figured out why the priest is grinning. An awesome system and awesome students to train with.

I.33 the manual for happy stabbers.

The Sutton class is coming down to train with us in Bromley next week, pick up on how they train, it's harder work, but very rewarding, train hard, see you at the next session. Dave