I got some carving knives last month and have been having a blast doing some basic carving (technically the US term is whittling as I do knife work only). So far I’ve turned out two spoons and a horse and am working on another spoon now.
This is both an update on the first practice of 2013 for me and a test of the WordPress app for my phone. Sebastian was back in town this week, so we decided to head out to practice. He hadn’t fenced since May, and I hadn’t fenced since the beginning Read more…
Randy over at Box Wrestle Fence had a great post today – granted they’re all great, and what are you doing reading my blog, his is much better go read it – but within today’s was a brief reminder about the same thing Swetnam and every other period master talked Read more…
Practice yesterday went wonderfully. We held it at Fraser River Heritage Park again and we had some nice sunny weather. After last week I had been thinking about and practicing footwork all week. Godfrey had mentioned that I was lunging and planting, which was allowing him to step just out Read more…
Had good practices the last few weeks. On the 20th Godfrey came out and put me through my paces. It was good to fight someone of his caliber again. It reminded me that I’ll need to get out to other practices as I progress. My accuracy is still lacking a Read more…
Good practice last night. A fencer who hasn’t been fighting for a while was out. I did a little bit of work on Swetnam, trying to figure out how his stance would work in SCA style rapier. It could work but it’s both defensive while not giving ground. You can Read more…
Practice last night went well. Violante and I were working on a few things. She’s trying to get practice with attacking on angles, and not moving straight in, while I”m working on defenses and spotting openings. The two worked very well together. I’m finding myself remembering how to see openings, Read more…
This is part of an ongoing project to summarize and provide SCA focused commentary on The Schoole of the Noble and Worthy Science of Defence by Joseph Swetnam, published in 1617.
For links to the other sections of the Swetnam Project please go here.
I am using this facsimile: http://tysonwright.com/sword/SwetnamSchooleOfDefence.pdf for the project.
We have now reached the combat portion of the manual. There is a major change here in that the rest of the book is part of chapter 12. The table of contents has broken it down into 18 sections. I will be using the sections as they are listed, but as with the previous chapters still using each inline heading as the heading for the post.
I may need to go back through and add more sections if my posts prove too long, but I’ll cross that bridge when I burn it.
The seven principles are: