Welcome to the Deeds of Arms training section. Training can account for 90% of most members involvement within the year's activity with the group and as such plays a key role as the primary social and training event of the calendar.

The details below explain some of  the ways that we train, where we get our information from and what is planned for the coming few months in the training schedule. Our weekly training blog also gives details onwhat we have done each week.

Regular training is held in Fareham on Thursday evenings from 1930 until 2115, if you woud like to come along to training and get involved please contact us and we will pass you full details.

Training follows a similar format on most occasions unless we have a guest trainer or something special planned.

The basic format to most sessions is:

1. Warmup
2. Core Competencies
3. Session Training
4. Cool down

 The session training is when we do specific training based upon the up and coming requirements for the season or the students present. As the season goes on we tend to train specifically for events having smaller break out groups for people that are either not at the event or have just joined us, to ensure that there is something for everyone to do at each session.

We base our historical sessions upon the classical gladiatorial iconography, Fiore (with some Talhoffer for high guards) Henry Angelo's Cutlass Drills and Walker's Simplified Boxing Exercises. Using these we have built up our historical competencies that form the driving force behind all of our event displays ensuring that the public gain a historical understanding of the different fighting techniques employed by our historical counterparts.Although specific training sessions are given across to specifics of each discipline, we try to examine half a dozen of each one to give each student an over view of the most basic differences between movement then and now.

We recognise the impossibility to be fully versant in all historical fighting forms and encourage members, wherever possibly to specialise in a specific period. Additionally whenever possibly we invite members from clubs that study any given fighting form to come along and teach at our sessions.