With only Verena and me at last week’s practice, we worked on cleaning up the Giganti plate 4 & 5 drills we worked the previous week. This week was our first indoor practice – except we were locked out of the building. Warm-ups: 25 lunges “Gawin says” footwork drill: Everybody except the “caller” lines up. […]
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Drills of the week #3: November 15, 2018 Leave a comment
Drills of the Week #2: November 1, 2018 Leave a comment
At this week’s practice, we had a larger turn-out than usual. Galen, Verena, and Finn are the usual crowd, but Ayisha was visiting from out of town and we have a new person named Clark who recently started school at the University. This meant that the drills for the evening needed to be divided into […]
Core Italian Rapier Drills: Drills of the Week #1 1 comment
The popularity of historic martial arts has exploded over the last few years, but learning how to fence from historical fencing treatises can be difficult. One of the most common errors I’ve seen people make is to fail to become proficient with the core actions and drills of a historic fencing system before plowing ahead […]