by Steve | Feb 11, 2022 | Classes
This week at Crossing Fight School, we’ll be doing a little bit of everything … experimenting with a few different competitive sparring games, looking closely at strategic options, and tailoring the fight to suit our opponents. I am hoping this class will...
by Steve | Feb 4, 2022 | Classes
This week at Crossing Fight School, we’ll be reviewing the very last of the Ringeck material, which means we’ll be working from the bind, cutting, stabbing, and slicing as needed, in an effort to finish off our opponents. We’ll be going through a...
by Steve | Feb 2, 2022 | Videos
I find Oskar’s videos entertaining and informative, and this one is no exception. Here you can see some pretty stable, measured, and decidedly deliberate (‘eyes-open’) fencing, with the Vor and Nach switching between the two of them pretty regularly....
by Steve | Jan 26, 2022 | Classes
This week at Crossing Fight School, it is Fight Week, and we all know what that means … fight-focused exercises and as much sparring as we can squeeze into the time we have. Experimentation and refinement will be the order(s) of the day. For those competing in...
by Steve | Jan 23, 2022 | Videos
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by Steve | Jan 21, 2022 | Classes
This week at Crossing Fight School, we’ll be reviewing, among other things, the plays from Longpoint. This popular guard has many advantages and is a good compromise between offense and defense, allowing you to ward off what would otherwise hit you while...
by Steve | Jan 14, 2022 | Classes
This week at Crossing Fight School, we’ll be reviewing a couple of different things that have a common thread among them. It will be a bind workshop of sorts, with some winding, some pressure application, and a bit of Nachreissen sprinkled in. This portion of...
by Steve | Jan 12, 2022 | Weapons & Gear
I’m not the biggest fan of Regenyei swords, but….this is magnificent. https://www.facebook.com/RegenyeiArmory/posts/1010866362800974
by Steve | Jan 7, 2022 | Classes
This week at Crossing Fight School, we will be going through the lesson we were scheduled to have last week. Because only a handful of people showed up, we decided to do a sparring workshop where we focused on our weaknesses as fighters in an effort to make...
by Steve | Dec 30, 2021 | Classes
This week at Crossing Fight School, we’ll be reviewing the last couple of Schwertnehmen plays along with one of my very favorite sections in the manual, Abschneiden. The Slice is, essentially, the Rodney Dangerfield of the Hauptstucke … it gets no respect!...
