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 some interesting intepretations we all managed to get one another to ground without any broken limbs or strains. The we moved onto somebasic rapier work developing through stationery use of the weapon to simple forward and backward movements.

A short break later and we reconviened in two distinct groups. One continued training with the rapier adding more complex movement to the use of the rapiers, the other prepared for Sherborne working through a pickpocketing sequence involving five people.

The sequence for Sherborne was done to record for next week as most sequences are now recorded with notes rather than relying just upon hand written notes from week to week, this has saved a lot of time and misunderstanding when continuing from week to the next.