Wed 8th and Thursday 9th December

As you can see the schedule is a day behind, this is mainly due to recovering from burn night, if you can imagine swinging 2lb+ of finely balanced steel dynamically for an hour, in a high octane mix of pad work, cut and counter work and resistance H.I.R.T.S training you will still have no idea how physically and mentally intense an experience it is, to understand you need to feel it... legs arms and abdominals all should be aching like mad if you are doing it right, an awesome core workout. To paraphrase the man, fence with all your body... to help you do that, we will train all your body...
So to update you to Wednesday night: We went straight to longsword and sword/buckler, skipping Rapier for the week, the drills went like so:
Each circuit: 20 mins one minute on sword one on pads or counter then swap.
circuit one: Longsword, squinting strike on pads, left and right sides, mins one minute on sword one on pads then swap. sword/buckler, advance in thrust to pad.

Circuit 2: Longsword, again squinter on pads, sword/buckler enter tap down pin and strike.

Circuit 3: Longsword squinter against the fool (latter plough and it's assaults), sword/buckler enter in in half, (countered with the falling under), bind down, trap and strike.

Well done those of you who attended a great effort and good progress.

Thursday's lesson:
Well, as it was so much fun yesterday, we are going to do it all again. see Wednesday nights lesson. Train hard, Dave

Tuesday 7th BURN NIGHT Long sword/Sword and buckler

Don't forget every Tuesday is BURN NIGHT Tonight is Longsword thrust and counter, squinter and zwerch with counter, PLUS sword and buckler enter and trap on both sides, ALL of this done on the HIRTS trainer ropes, it's going to hurt, it's going to leave you exhausted, it will make you feel you've taken your training to another level.
I hope to see you there. Dave

Monday nights and the Xmas holidays.

After speaking to the students who attended last night, the decision has been taken to train every Monday over xmas and into the new year.
That means that.
Monday 13th training as usual.
Monday 20th  training as usual.
Monday 27th  training as usual.
Monday 3rd Jan  training as usual.

Thanks very much for your commitment chaps, you make me proud.

Training schedule Monday 7th

Barbican 8pm: Longsword tonight is drilling squinter on the pads followed by it's use against the alber (latter plough) and Longpoint..
Sword and buckler will be drilling enter, bind, trap to strike, with a disengage thrust and counter thrown in if you perfect that...
You'll be glad to know that we are in bag in the main hall, thanks to those of you who came and trained in the closet last week.

Rawlings PRO LINE guards now available.

 

The new Rawlings Pro Line cross guards are now in stock at the Knight Shop  made of stainless steel these increase the overall weight and drastically improve balance and realistic feel of the training sword, offering a much  better work out and a closer experience to training with the real thing...

There are some new blades in the pipeline too, more news on those as we get it, as you'd expect all the fittings (old/new blades/crosses) are fully interchangeable. Train hard..Dave

Thursday (last night)

Bromley class: Longsword, well done for all of you who turned up regardless of the conditions, and well done for the hard work you put in, last night was squinter practice against striking pads and the the thrust. Very impressed with everyone.

Wednesday December 1st

Blackfriars:
Rapier 7.30pm: is by invite only tonight.
Longsword: 8.30pm:  is, by popular demand "squinter practice".

Wrap up warm chaps, I'll see you there...