It's nice to be able to talk about this at last. In case you haven't seen it yet, I was the resident master at arms for the Channel 4 documentary Richard III the New Evidence. I had great fun with this and got to work with a fantastic crew throughout.
A little about what we did.
Dominic is a very slight guy so to throw himself into a training regime. It was a big step up and something to be proud of.
We worked a quite hard routine, which mixed aspects of Talhoffer's messer, and Paulus Hector Mair's sickle to work with the blows and potential snare ups from battleaxe and war-hammer combat. From the little sneaky clips I was sent, it was clear that Dominic was not only paying lip service to learning but genuinely committing time to practice what he was taught. It was a pleasure to be involved. Take a look at the link, I hope you will enjoy it,
What's gone on.
Lots as usual, more Meyer Rapier every Monday at the Barbican. Soon we will shift to another master for a while but still staying on rapier.
Tuesdays in Beckenham, spear and staff, completing the mittelhau drill and just for fun a dussack tournament.
Wednesday at Blackfriars, sword and buckler. Purely fighting for the last two weeks, experimenting with rule variations and last week, just fighting.
Thursday in Clapham, I had a night off. Thanks so much to Charles for taking the class. This week more mixed weapons.
Friday (as you can see from the picture above) is longsword, last week was a lot of foot work, working on balance and choice variations from the first step. very hard work, very well done. We are off this Friday as the hall is closed, but we are back to normal next week.
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