Wednesday 15th Blackfriars...

Nick and Pete (foreground) "helping" each other.

Yesterday was the final Wednesday session of the year. The class as was to be expected with the amount of Xmas parties going around a fair bit quieter than usual (bear in mind that the L.L.A has a maximum class size of ten for quality purposes anyway)  but the few that did turn up put in a great performance.
Again we worked circuits, the first thirty minutes spent drilling the sword and buckler wards and linking cuts of I.33, and longsword guard transitions and  striking into shrankhut followed by a false edge blow.
 As usual we worked 2 minute circuits, one on left, one on right, then rapidly onto the next weapon.

Five people two sets of sword and buckler, three feders


For the second part of the lesson we went for:
Longsword: uncooperative drilling of the strike into shrankhut against the oberhau.
Sword and buckler: entry with the thrust on pads.


and for the final part:
Longsword: uncooperative drilling of the zwerch against oberhau.
sword and Buckler: Pad work left and right trap and binds.

Everyone worked superbly hard, it was great to hear the students egging each other on offering encouragement to push that little bit further. It was also good to have at least one student rolling on the floor gasping, a great effort all round...

For those of you that aren't back till the new year, have a good one. The rest of you, see you at the next session.