Tag: Event

  • 2023 – Fantasy, Folklore, and Fighting [Practice]

    2023 – Fantasy, Folklore, and Fighting [Practice]

    It’s that Time Again! Time for the guild to hone its martial art for public display. We will be hosting a table at the local fantasy convention ConStellation, along with 2 event showing of our art. Saturday, April 22nd, at 3-4 pm, we will be doing our ever popular “Wheel of Mortality”, where we used…

  • 2023 – Under Duress, No More

    2023 – Under Duress, No More

    Today we’re going to learn a lot of things, but first and foremost; we must learn to fall. Joseph Loder [ paraphrased] One may get worried if the first thing in a class about defense is to fall, but not our crew. Joe explained that to do some of the later offensive techniques, we must…

  • 2023 – Under Duress: A survey of medieval close combat techniques in the Italian tradition.

    2023 – Under Duress: A survey of medieval close combat techniques in the Italian tradition.

    This course is designed to be an accessible, full day course covering a simplified body of techniques from Fiore dei Liberi’s Flor Di Bataglia. Starting from grappling and then bridging to use of the dagger and longsword by themselves, then concluding with transitioning from one weapon to the next in giocco stretto or ‘close play’.…