Latest news, events.
To those who missed us last week, we are back for another block of longsword this Thursday 16th Jan, with beginners welcome to join the old hands. Running through to the half-term holidays, this will be five weeks of Fiore’s Italian longsword to 13th Feb. See you at Okehampton College gym at 8pm.
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West Devon Swords is featured in the January/February edition of Oke Links magazine, the lifestyle/what’s on/general interest publication for the Okehampton area. Turn to page 13 for a sports feature on our HEMA activities. Keep reading for the article text. …
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Thurs 19th Dec. will be our last session of this year and this decade; it will also be our last session of Saviolo rapier/sidesword in this block.
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Forty Five children from Princetown, Horrabridge, Lamerton, St Peter’s, Tavistock, Bere Alston and Whitchurch primary schools took part in an Ability Games event, hosted by Bere Alston school.
The pupils enjoyed trying out archery, playing New Age Curling and Boccia and learned how to fence.
This was a practice session for the School Games County Ability Games which will take place in January.
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…or at least that was the intention. Some of it looks like the treatise, some of it… not.
Note to self, when blocking with the off hand, be sure the thrust you’re blocking is actually a thrust and not a cut…
Parcel arrived. Club kit is available in all the colours and all the sizes.
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This week’s session finished with our first attempt at a Saviolo flow drill that didn’t always,er, flow.
Intended to bed in the techniques from Saviolo’s rapier/sidesword treatise, the continuous flow of counters proved tricky to keep up. In this case, instead of keeping moving at a counter-attacking measure, everyone kept closing in to grappling range (after Fiore), which isn’t necessarily wrong, just not the exercise we aimed for. …
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National Safeguarding Adults Week 2019 takes place 18-24 November.
Ann Craft Trust (ACT) is heading the annual awareness raising campaign which focuses on safeguarding issues across society. Each day will be focused on a different safeguarding adults at risk issue, culminating in two days about safeguarding adults in sport and activity. …
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Our current Saviolo sidesword block continues as we get to grips with close measure cut and thrust with off hand parries.
And as we try to get everyone on the same page, we have two new members this session taking a remarkably mature approach to class and a first sparring experience.
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