Class for Nov. 14, 2021

As many of you know, there is an in-house tournament being held by Bucks Historical Longsword this Sunday, and it will feature some of the best and brightest fighters in the area.  Like anything done by our neighboring clubs, this will certainly be an event that is...

Class for Nov. 7, 2021

This week at Crossing Fight School, we will be taking a very close look at the concept of Nachreissen, something I believe to be an essential component of the Art we practice. Nachreissen, or ‘traveling after’, is on full display when we perform exercises...

Class for Oct. 31, 2021

This week at Crossing Fight School, it is once again Fight Week. As usual, we will have some strategy and Fuhlen-based exercises, followed by extended sparring time meant to further refine our technique and expand our repertoire. Of course, this will be a great...

Class for Oct. 24, 2021

This week at Crossing Fight School, our review of the Ringeck gloss resumes, and we’ll be looking at what do to when we are displaced. Confronting an opponent who is fencing defensively can be a problem, but fortunately, there are countermeasures against such...

Class for Oct. 17, 2021

This week at Crossing Fight School, the class will focus on Schnappen, a particularly useful technique from this portion of the text. As it happens, Schnappen is something of a specialty of one of our best trained fighters, Aidan Witherspoon. In fact, you can hardly...

Class for Oct. 10, 2021

Good evening, all. This week at Crossing Fight School, we will begin our lesson by taking a closer look at a few fundamental things in KDF, namely the guards themselves, and also the Vier Versetzen, the virtues of which I have long espoused. As I have said many times,...