Tonight’s class focused largely on tactical considerations, namely sentimento de ferro and working from the bind. Poste dance (a kata-like series of movements integrating footwork and guards) Discussion on the bind and types of binds – neutral, hard or soft – as well as type of pressure applied – sideways pressure, downward pressure or forward [...]

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Youth Class: Warm upTrollballCutting exercises – fendente to longa, fendente to dente di zenghiar and return cut, fendente roverso to tutta porta di ferro and return sottaniCover using frontale versus fendenteApplication of inside wrist locks

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StretchingTrollballReview of guardsDrill – Fendente cutsDrill – Mezani cutsDrill – Sotani cutsDrill – Fendente-sotani comboDrill – Control exerciseDrill – Collection Parry with Posta Frontale (di Corona)Theoretical: Progression of medieval warrior garb and armament

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Once again we worked on the first remedy master plays, focusing on the first plays – disarm, ligadura mezana, the two-hand ligadura mezana (keep forgetting to work the variant – the leg lift!) and the figure-4 ligadura soprana. We also practiced the backward throw from the Getty version (seventh play of the first remedey master). [...]

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Sorry – playing catch up. I suck at this blog thing… – Warm up and stretching- Warm-up game: Flag of Liège- Tutta Volta- Dagger drill- Dagger – 1st remedy, boken down into ‘block’, ‘grab’, ‘disarm’.- Demonstration of importance of control, dangers of practicing this art

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- Stretching- warm-up- Flag of Liège.- Reviewed basic stance- dagger moulinet- block against a mezzani dritto- Learned block against sottani and disarm- Learned how to put on armor

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Hmmm… Video. I’m liking video. It’s fast becoming a staple tool in our training. We reviewed the video from last week’s training to see where there was improvement to be made. Notably, Bernard’s footwork – the lead foot has a small tell, moving before the attack or defence. We’ll work on that… His cover is [...]

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