Monday Barbican: Longsword, Set pace sparring to warm up*, coming to the fight and grappling at the sword
Tuesday Beckenham: Longsword: Set pace sparring to warm up, coming to the fight and grappling at the sword.
Wednesday Blackfriars: Longsword and Messer: Set pace sparring to warm up, coming to the fight and grappling at the sword.
Thursday Hither Green: Burn Night. high Rep high intensity drilling, HIRTS rope training and Bulgarian bag work, Longsword and messer work, again more grappling at the sword.
Friday Sutton: sword grappling and set pace sparring.
*Set pace sparring is a very hard thing to do, you pick a speed that you can strike but also adjust to defence should you need to do so, all of your partner's responses (and your own) must take place at this speed.
The idea behind this is that, rather than relying on speed or strength to make techniques work, you work on structure and gradually eliminate unnecesary and wide spaced motions that leave you exposed in the fight.
It's very common that upon finding a weakness in your form you will use a sudden motion to extricate yourself or strike the opponent, if you do this you have missed the point. For the technique to be superior it must work at the same speed and strength (or slower and weaker) when you have that form speed and strength are added bonuses. Train hard, Dave
No comments:
Post a Comment