Monday 15th Barbican class.

Barbican class tonight, mixed weapon circuit training, Krieg with the longsword, subjection with the rapier, sword and buckler transitional cutting, and fifth form with the short staff.

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Sutton Friday 12th

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Krieg work from last weeks class.

 

 

 

 

Short staff again this week, the 5' staves have arrived and they are a fair bit stronger, so we can up the training a notch. Look forward to seeing you there.
Dave

Thursday Nov 11

We were going to practice the krieg last night, but due to the great effort put in by the students at the start of the lesson (some of whom were still feeling the rigours of Tuesday's Burn Night) We instead worked on flowing and multiple cuts, moving this approach (constant cutting) into a bouting environment. Everyone made progress this week, special mention however to Steve C who seems to have leapt a level in his understanding.

Wednesday class details.

Rapier: It's a week off for rapier this week, classes resume as normal next week.

Longsword: Krieg, war work, zornhau, wind, wind and disengage. Simple and with lots of repetition, also counter thrusts.
Look forward to seeing you there, Dave

Burn Night. Tuesdays at optimal life fitness.

This Tuesday saw a change of pace, an hour of full on longsword resistance training, Bungees, bag work, high rep drilling, with everyone leaving the hall slightly burnt out but buzzing.
It's a perfect way for beginners to learn (no time or need to be precise, just work it) and an awesome way for the more advanced to push themselves to their limits.

As a result of this Tuesdays longsword class, is going to get more intense and more high rep. Are you ready for Burn Night?

And now, some good examples...

Fun as it was to teach the All Blacks, what you see them displaying in the (previous post)is mainly childish flailing, that's to be expected, as they only had an hour to train. However, I wanted to show these clips from the 2010 swordfish finals as it shows fencers at the height of their game.

In the first clip Axel P and his trainer Anders L fence with steel longswords



and in the second (the rapier final)Phil and Colin, look at 2.15-2.19 for an excellent example of the correct mind set, Phil attacks, then immediately moves back, fully mindful of his defence afterwards, outstanding.



I hope you enjoy this, Dave

Tonight and the All Blacks

Tonight there is a slight change of plan, tonight is krieg, working the close winding with the sword.




In the mean time however here is the clip of me teaching the All Blacks on Friday just gone, enjoy: