A few notes from last week's longsword class.
We revised our current suite of cutting drills, the Mastercut exercise and the first posture exercise. We added a second posture exercise: Start with left foot forward adopting each posture in turn while saying its name.
A few notes from last week's longsword class.
We returned to the earlier drills. To the cutting drills we added a variant where the Oberhau are performed with the short-edge, in the manner of a Schielhau. So we have Schielhau 1, Unterhau 3, Unterhau 2, Schielhau 4. Also Schielhau 1, Schielhau 4, Unterhau 2, Unterhau 3. Note that the second pattern includes the short-edge to the top left followed by short-edge to the top right that we found in Meyer's first play from Vom Tag.
We revised the plays from Vom Tag, adding the next two.
A few notes from last week's Longsword class.
In addition to the previous week's drills, two new ones.
Posture drill: Adopt postures while saying name. Start with left foot forward, then repeat with right foot forward.
Some notes from the class of 16/5/18.
The five "Mastercuts" are:
This Tuesday night saw the return of regular training for 2015. We've decided to keep playing in the park for February, and we'll look to return to an inside venue from March. There is currently some uncertainty as to the venue, so stay tuned.
On the Seventh of December, Anno Societatis Forty Nine, on the list field of St Catherine's Faire in the Barony of Ildhafn did meet:
Queen Liadan ingen Fheradaig
Sir Inigo de Messaglia
Don William de Cameron
Don Emrys Twdr
Baron Oswyn Carolus
Baroness Cicilia Lyon
Lord Ludwig von Regensburg
Lady Anna de Wilde
Lady Katherine of Glastonbury
Lady Eleanor Hall
Lord James of Southron Gaard
Lisbet of Ildhafn
We finished off the year with our best "Fight Night" yet, with seven combatants including one new authorisation, and one visitor from Christchurch. After some warm-ups, we rotated pairs (single rapier, single kill) until everyone had fought everyone else, then a straight king-of-the-hill. After a break for water, we continued the king-of-the-hill format, but with any weapons combinations. Hopefully, this got us into the right frame of mind for the Baronial Rapier Championship on the Sunday.
We had a great turn-out for the revival of Fight Night: two dons, five mere mortals and two more who are working their way towards authorisation (for one of whom it was their first time in full kit). So from now on, for the first Tuesday of the month, we'll be putting into practice what we learn on the other Tuesdays.
And don't forget, we also play on Sunday afternoons (weather permitting).
Update from last week: A better version of the pictures (mac9.ucc.nau.edu/manuscripts/giganti.pdf) reveals that Lesson 9 hits on the outside and 10 on the inside. So the notes from last week should read:
Lesson 9: A takes the outside line, B disengages, A disengages and hits on the outside line.
Lesson 10 hits on the inside line.
We continued the Giganti curriculum, working through Lessons 6-12 from the Miedema translation. All of these were plays we had done before, but we reviewed them, at first walking them through, then at speed with masks.
