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by **admin** » 04 Feb 2009 14:15

Next Tuesday (10th Feb) James Marwood will be giving a special class on the Edwardian system of self defence 'Bartitsu' ( http://www.bartitsu.org ) at SG1 in Ealing. I will be out of London for work unfortunately, but this is a great opportunity to train with James, who is a long standing Schola member and has taught at seminars across Europe. James teaches modern self protection, Edwardian Bartitsu, WWII and later combatives, walking stick defence and Irish stick fighting amongst other things.

by **admin** » 11 Feb 2009 19:53

The hall will be unavailable on Tuesday 24 Feb, so training will be off that week.

by **admin** » 03 Mar 2009 13:29

There may be quite a gaggle of new people tonight, but for the old hands it will be sparring, sparring and more sparring.

by **janner** » 25 Mar 2009 21:23

Great fun with the daggers last night matey - much appreciated

by **admin** » 31 Mar 2009 13:39

We will be doing some spear tonight.

by **admin** » 01 Apr 2009 09:30

I thought spear went well last night - it was the first spear session that most of the guys had done. We even had some spear sparring at the end, which was great fun as usual.

by **George St** » 01 Apr 2009 16:04

It was really good indeed...

I really enjoyed it...

:lol:

by **admin** » 15 Apr 2009 09:28

Last night's was a small class - this is normal after a bank holiday weekend. I think people get confused about which day they are in. Despite this, SG1 saw the return of an old stalwart in the form of one of Schola best known fighting ladies - Serena. And Sarah was back as well, getting ready for taking Dijon by storm. And she brought friends, so we had 3 new people visit us.
During class we went through the basic options available from the gioco largo and stretto crosses, both the direct thrust and resulting volta if this is defended against, and also the inside line grabs and wraps. Once we had revised and refined these then we went free-form, the attacker giving a simple fendente dritto and the defender doing whatever they liked. We finished off the class with complete free-form, like sparring, but at 1/3 speed. This threw up some interesting questions and counters.
The other three of us who are going to Dijon tried to cram in some sparring practice at the end of class. Simon and Gavin went at it with much hand-hitting abandon and I was pleased with my cambio di punta attempts against Paul's ever-present posta breve.
The session was concluded and we retired to the pub, as per usual.

by **Trev Rep** » 16 Apr 2009 19:52

Aw, thanks Matt.

It was good to be back. Reminded me of why I loved it in the first place. Will be sure to catch everyone next week!

P.S. Arms still hurt...

by **admin** » 22 Apr 2009 14:58

A nice session last night. A couple of new faces, the return of some relatively new faces and some old regulars. We all trained together for the first half, then in the second half Paul took the newer people through some more of gioco largo and stretto longsword whilst the more experienced guys engaged in some sparring.
Particular credit to Simon last night - I enjoyed one of the best (most technical) bouts I've had in quite a while with him.

by **George St** » 22 Apr 2009 20:08

A failed light signal and 50 mins delay on the way back from Crewe and there goes the Tuesday!!!

:twisted:

by **boxshapedheart** » 28 Apr 2009 09:13

Looking forward to class tonight.

I might spar.

...Maybe.

by **admin** » 28 Apr 2009 09:24

As it is our last session before Dijon, there will be sparring for all of tonight. :twisted:

Looking forward to it too.

by **admin** » 29 Apr 2009 14:54

Another good session last night. Some more new faces and some of the newer people are coming back each week.
I split the class half way through so that the more experienced guys could get some more sparring practice in before Dijon, and Paul took the newer people through more drills.
Tenniel and Stephen's sparring is coming along nicely and it was good to see Sarah sparring again after a break. Simon and George put me through my paces an were both formidable opponents - I'm particularly happy that Simon is varying his repertoir more these days and also at last bending his knees more and becoming more fluid. Highlight of the evening for me was making Fiore's groin kick technique work about 4 times in a row! :lol:

by **admin** » 11 May 2009 17:43

Congratulations to Simon Thurston (Knife Thrower) for getting through to the semi finals of the Dijon tournament and congrats also to all the other Schola members who did themselves proud in various ways in Dijon.

Videos will be uploaded...

by **Brodie** » 12 May 2009 23:58

Last tuesday was really fun! starting to get hooked on this playing with swords thing - sadly im working for the next two tuesdays

so im going to pop down to the central london class does any one frequent both?

by **admin** » 13 May 2009 00:27

George often goes to both and Dan sometimes - I go occasionally, but I also secretly* train with another group outside London on Thursdays.

*oops...

by **George St** » 13 May 2009 17:02

Yeap... I usually go to both so you will see me there tomorrow...

Unless all goes wrong!

by **craftyfighter** » 13 May 2009 17:04

admin wrote:George often goes to both and Dan sometimes - I go occasionally, but I also secretly* train with another group outside London on Thursdays.

*oops...

Yeah like that was an accident :roll:

by **Brodie** » 20 May 2009 11:16

shifts stoped me from coming again

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