After a quick warmup and some core competencies we moved swiftly into a very quick stock fight scene that was quickly picked up by everyone for the next exercise that was to do the smae sequence through a number of times using different era weapons, employing...

Making efforts to ensure that our fights are as realistic as possible, we broke off in two groups for this weeks training, with Steve looking at core sword movements and the rest of us working on the punch pads. Stepping through a short technique slowly...

Hello all A big thankyou to everyone for being flexible this evening and training in the Green Room, we're not sure what happened this evening with the normal venue, we'll do our best to find out and try to make sure we get some warning in future...

In a change from recent weapons training this evenings session was a quick tour through the principles surrounding the application of locks and pulls. So many fights both historically and in stage combat come to a point where the weapons work ends and...

Continuing on from last week's dagger drills 1 to 4 we learnt how they can be used equally as well against an opponent armed with a sword. The same drills applied against a sword armed adversary allowed the student with the dagger easily defeat a...

A well attended training saw us revise Walker's Simplified Boxing Methods ending in a short series of paired example sequences made to demonstrate the techniques learnt, all of which were very good and more importantly very different looking. After...

Training this week was given across to the some basics, examining in quick succession the cross punch, head butt, head lock, various arm locks, kick to the grion and punch to the stomach. With a reasonable turn out we went through these techniques in...

The first session of the year saw us pick up where we had left off and the dice came out for one more ill fated go after some basic study of Walkers Simplified Boxing Techniques. The dice where then used to create a random melee with everyone a potential...

Dice took centre stage as we sought to randomize a fight sequence with 6 combatants. Using old school D&D dice each person was allotted their fight, who they had to strike, when they had to attack and where the attack had to land. After a shaky start...

A single day event at Stevenage museum saw the group give a multimedia presentation on the real life influences and pre Indy inspirations for the creation of the now world famous Indiana Jones. A 20 minute talk punctuated with fights based upon moments...

A slight departure from normal for us this weekend as we took part in the Napoleonic Weekend at Kingston Maurward. A number of true Napoleonic Society and groups where present along with us all talking and working with the public. The Allied and French...

Well everyone worked there socks off at the event with none stop work every 45 minutes and even in between during the ghosttalks down in the cellar; which appears to pick up new ghosts with each visit from the group. In a centuries time I ihave no doubt...

After a swift warmup fun was had by all as we practiced the hip throw and leg sweep. Similar to ogoshi and ashe-gake in judo the throws differ only in their final stages as we seek to lower one another to the ground without injury and under control. After...

Something a little different today after the standard warm up and competency technique, this time a quick revision of napping after one went down very well at Chedworth last weekend. Thr group was broken into four attackers and one defender. Then using...

This week's training was given over almost entirely to preparing for Chedworth, the final details of the slave revolt scene where worked through after the usual warmups and basic competency training. The basics this week where chosen completely at...