A recap of the 1st Master dagger work from last week saw us leap into a similarly styled training for an examination of Fiore's 3rd master dagger work. The final part as given across to rehearsals for the event at Peterborough in a few weeks time...

This weeks session was given aross, almost exclusively to the 1st Master dagger work of Fiore. Studying was divided parts, the actual technique then its adaption to stage combat and finally variations for safe inclusion with different weapons use in stage...

With nice weather for a change, Sherborne Park Lodge was tremendous fun for the public and the group alike. Four activities were repeated twice throughout the day; a bungled house robbery, a site wide treasure hunt, pied powder court and a dark cellar...

Another well attended trainig at Collingwood saw us split into two groups after the warmup and core competencies; that this time saw us practicing very basic sword skills and a throw. The two groups then carried on with their seperate training as one...

Another well attended session ended with two seperate groups training together as work gets under way for the immediate Pirate event at Shernorne Lodge Park and for later gladiatorial events throughout the second part of the events season. Training went...

Mercifuly not a referece to The Ting Tings that Ivor Novello winning and Grammy nominated indie pop duo but rather the noise a rapier, back sword or similar weapon can make when receiving a good beat or defence. This week saw us start looking at Camillo...

Despite poor weather on the single day of the show in the south, a lot of fun was had by all at the Ferny Croft Scouts centre in the New Forest as part of their annual Evo event. Luckily for us the scouts were prepared and the event was moved to the large...

The final training session for the weekends events went well. Dressed rehearsals showed a few last minute adjustments to armour that need doing but no major changes to the fights due to ill fitting harnesses or costumes, which was great news. A special...

Another well attended training session saw us continue with the preparation for the coming New Forest event, fights are coming together very well and despite one members acrobatics slipping on a rolling spear handle everyone escaped without injury. The...

A well attended training saw us go through the usual warm ups with an improvised thigh and calf exercise from Alisa that brought on some interesting looks of pain from a couple of us. Guard drills and dagger drills then gave themselves over to be used...

Training continued after the usual warm up including some stretching and guard/dagger drills for movement straight into fight rehearsals. After figuring out who would fight who sequences were quickly figured out to enabled their tightening next week after...

Training, thankfully, went off without too much of any April Fool gags being played on one another by anyone. From now until the New Forest Scouts show training is principally being given across to preparations, rehearsals and equipment checks for the...

Well I suppose it had to happen eventually, training this week saw us finally go to Southampton for the evening as the usual location as being used for a local theatre production. The site was superb and perfect for our uses. A very relaxed session as...

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...