(suited for Medium and Advanced martial artist)

Some people will endeavor in playing with medieval longswords in a sparring session and others tend to just stick to performing techniques with a partners. I believe you need both to be complete.
 

The problem is that techniques always look cool when executed slowly in a gym. Mostly they seem to work and even make sense, but strangely enough when we get into sparring adventure, somehow all that is learned miraculously goes out the window and we become blinded, barbarian numbskulls hitting away at each other. Why the hell do we do that ?

This class will talk about psychology: fear in combination with the pricipals ‘Vor’, ‘Nach’ and ‘Indes’ before looking at what to do and what not to do in order to maintain your ‘cool’.

And then the practical side: How to get safely into the swordfight and how the use the basic principals of Liechtenauer.

The use again of ‘Vor’,  ‘Nach’ and ‘Indes’ in combination with ‘fühlen’ ‘feeling’ the pressure on your blade.

This material would normally require several hours to comprehend, but this fast paced class will endevor to do this workshop in 1.5 hour none the less.  It will be somewhat demanding and will require some skills with the longsword to be in this class.