After some time practicing langes messer with the class loaners, I set out to find a training messer of my own to better suit my practice needs. This post describes my experience finding, comparing, and evaluating the messer models available on the market, and presents some data I compiled to help me make a decision.
Willkommen! This Gotham Swords program studies a historical fencing tradition from Augsburg, Germany. The Augsburg School emphasizes a curriculum of foundational skills and concepts which inform the application of higher order techniques. The lessons forge a system of fencing that is applicable to Ringen (wrestling), Messer (knives), and Schwert (Longsword).
Mindfulness in Partnered Drilling
OR - How Not to be a Sword-Wielding Zombie
Drilling, specifically paired drilling, is a big part of our classes in NYC, and likely almost everywhere in HEMA. It’s a way of learning a technique by executing it over and over to build up "muscle memory" and refine the movement until it works in a predictable setting.
COVID-19 Studio and Training Information
Post issued from SwordClassNYC:
Skip one day of training and lose one hundred days.Losing your routine is hard. In fact, coming back to training after significant time away is one of the greatest challenges that any martial artist can face. We get it. We’re all going through it and we’d like to help you avoid that malaise of daily inactivity.
- Chinese Proverb
Our studio remains closed until gyms in NYC are permitted to reopen, but we’ve created a number of online resources for you to access while you’re unable to come in for training. Although online instruction is not a replacement for the traditional training environment, we hope these will help to keep you active, challenged, and engaged with our incredible community of enthusiastic and caring instructors and practitioners.
If you have any questions, please email us at info@swordclassNYC.com. Train hard, and we’ll see you in class!
For information regarding Online Group Classes and Talks and Sword Class NYC Online
please visit: http://swordclassnyc.com/covid19/
A Note from Peter
Comrades,
We live in strange times.
It is in our most difficult moments that we are accustomed to turn to our friends, family, Comrades, and allies for support. The challenges of the current pandemic, and subsequent lock-down have removed access to much of the intimate comradery we so often depend upon.
Yet, while the world feels askew, it brings me incredible pride to see the countless ways folks are proving you can't keep a good club down: uplifting check-ins via phone or messenger, shared online gaming, remote movie nights, and creating the community's Discord forum (thanks Dylan!) all have offered a wonderful way to help us all feel less isolated.
While we continue to be away from the FechtSchule, I want to encourage everyone to gift themselves the time to study and practice. Join the online study sessions, aim to include your solo practice hours, even if it means roping in your partner, roommate, or pets.
If you have new, creative methods of practicing, please share them with us — or if you're encountering difficulties in your practice, such as: discovering exactly how low your ceiling actually is, please let us know and we will do our best to help keep your training on track.
More challenges are ahead, and things are going to feel out-of-whack for a while. You're not alone in your worries, fears, and concerns. I know our community, and it's a good one; we're going to get through this together.
As always, please don't hesitate to reach out to me for any reason. I'm available via phone, e-mail, and now the kids have pulled me onto the Discord [peterjhaas#7618].
Continue being awesome to each other!
Best,
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Peter J. Haas
Lehrer, KdMF(DAFAK)
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