Advice on Building Your Own Practice Sessions [Lecture / AMA]

This week we discuss how you can focus on goals to build more concise practice sessions.

Classes Snap Shots!

Thank you everyone for joining us for our third week of safe, outdoor classes!

This week we covered: Sword & Buckler, Langes Messer, and freeplay fencing.

Check out our schedule page for information about future classes.

Schedule is Online!

As we still navigate the question of "what next?" we're increasingly have socially-distant outdoor class meet ups.  Check our new schedule page or www.bookwhen.com/dafak for more information regarding class times, locations, and participation requirements.

Stay safe, and look forward to seeing you all soon!

Interview: Kat Talks Practice Habits and the Covid-19 Pandemic

 

In this week's Hema AMA we interview Kat about her latest article "Practice Habits and the Covid-19 Pandemic." We recommend that you read her article here before watching!

When fencing halls and dojos closed down due to the Covid-19 pandemic, everyone's fencing classes changed dramatically; but did solo practice, i.e. time spent practicing outside of class, change?  Kat Hamilton conducted an informal study and now shares her findings.

About Hema AMA —The Covid-19 Pandemic continues to restricted our ability to safely practice Hema. In order to help keep the NYC (and greater!) community connected, Peter has been hosting weekly AMA sessions covering a wide and diverse range of topics.

MOVING FORWARD: A Brief Statement [and a Survey!]

Comrades,

We live in challenging times.

I am incredibly grateful for all the times we had together at Sword Class NYC: we trained. We built a new training space. We trained some more. We partied. We expanded our realm of study from Longsword to messer, sword and buckler, spear, saber, and ringen. We experienced the excitement of tournaments.

We collectively owe everyone at SCNYC, and especially Tristan, Raab, and Sara a huge thank you for their time, blood, sweat, tears, and many sacrifices they’ve made to help us create this space and build this community.

Moving forward, I want to reassure everyone that we will continue to be doing what we do best: be a community of awesome people with a bad-ass sword habit.

There is still much work to be done in hammering out the details, but here is what I know and what I can personally offer you at the moment:

• The Discord channel is here to stay! If you’re not already a member, let us know, and we can add you.
• The Lecture / Ask Me Anything and Virtual Class Sessions will continue!
• TZLongsword and Squinting Rabbit will continue to produce amazing training materials!
• I am currently working with everyone to see how we can move forward to provide in-person classes. Please be patient!

This being said, running two virtual sessions a week, plus [at least one] in-person class is a lot for any individual.

I’m currently looking to restructure our current schedule; I know Tuesday, Friday, and Saturday have been long carved out in terms of classes, but I don’t want to automatically commit to those times without your input.

Please take a moment to fill out this schedule survey:

https://forms.gle/8UE2paq8CUpdQyL89

The more information I have, the better my choices can be for everyone!

As I mentioned before, there are still a number of details to work out; there is a lot more work to do, and there will be many opportunities to contribute to this process!

Thank you all for the outpouring of support, and I look forward to fencing with you all again soon!

Hugs,

Peter

Practice Habits Before and During the Covid-19 Pandemic: A Study

When fencing halls and dojos closed down due to the Covid-19 pandemic, everyone's fencing classes changed dramatically; but did solo practice, i.e. time spent practicing outside of class, change?  Kat Hamilton conducted an informal study and now shares her findings.