Thurs 16th December and how it went.

Into the schrank...

Bromley: Longsword and Sword with buckler: This was the penultimate Bromley lesson of the year but also the first time we have had two of the new Rawlings range Pro-line steel crossguards on the training swords, and they perform VERY well, a totally different and more realistic feel to the trainers, (We now have these and the full range of Rawlings training swords in stock), again we time trialled it.

Warm up: 
Longsword: guard transitions.
Sword and buckler: The seven wards and cut transitions.
Initially we took the same format as Wednesday's class, however as people weren't picking it up as fluidly as the previous night (only to be expected as it's a newer group of students), we split into two groups, focussing for longer on each sequence. then swapping around midway through.

The cut completed.

Group 1: Longsword: cutting into shranckhut, just to shranck at first then flowing into the cut, no pausing between.
Group 2: sword and buckler: lots of drilling ward transitions, focus on removing the thought interruption and allowing the body to work it out as it says in the manual “Practice is better than art". 


The groups swapped, and then onto part two.

Longsword: again with the shranckhut, this time against the oberhau, very much following the "no excuses" doctrine, again against any oberhau from the right, working through the points where students had trouble with a certain angle or timing and making the move work for them, this quite often dealt with by simply "striking to the flat".

It's important to have at least one camp picture per session.

Sword and buckler: as with the last few occasions binding trap and enter on the pads, with for the more advanced the bind on the inside.

I'd like to give Pete L a special mention for last night, he showed the best form I've seen from him, a very good performance (all this despite my yelling at him), very well done Pete.