by Steve | Aug 11, 2021 | Classes
UPDATE AS OF AUG 14: After a hard fought tournament, it’s clear that attendance will be insanely light tomorrow, so I’ve decided to give everyone a day off. Class is canceled tomorrow so everyone can recover and put themselves back together. There will be...
by Steve | Aug 5, 2021 | Classes
This week at Crossing Fight School, we’ll have our final tournament preparation class, complete with challenging exercises which should (hopefully) prepare you to either take control of your fights, or make adjustments within them to seize an advantage....
by Steve | Jul 30, 2021 | Classes
This week at Crossing Fight School, it is once again Fight Week. In fact, it will be Fight Week for the next two classes in preparation for the Pennsylvania HEMA Open. As always, we’ll be running through some fight exercises and having extended sparring in an...
by Steve | Jul 23, 2021 | Classes
Greetings once again, everyone. This week at Crossing Fight School, we will continue our lesson on the Zwerchhau, and if all goes according to plan, we’ll wrap up that section entirely. This is material we should pay close attention to, as many fights degenerate...
by Steve | Jul 19, 2021 | Weapons & Gear
I have a nubby announcement … that is, I have an announcement about nubs. I’m ordering more for the club, but in reality, each fighter should be providing their own. I’ve ordered like $100 worth of these things over the past year, and they’re...
by Steve | Jul 17, 2021 | Classes
This week at Crossing Fight School, our review of the Zwerchhau continues, this time featuring a bit of slicing, a bit of deception, and a measure of variation … just some of the things that conspire to make this one of the more interesting and diverse sections...
by Steve | Jul 9, 2021 | Classes
This week at Crossing Fight School, we’ll be resuming our Ringeck review and our split class format, this time focusing on the Zwerchhau. Many of us have love/hate relationship with this cut (myself included), but at the proper range, it’s certainly an...
by Steve | Jul 1, 2021 | Classes
This week at Crossing Fight School, you’ll once again be led by the one and only Camilla Frazier into the strange and wondrous land of Codex Guelf. Will this lesson feature Longsword? Perhaps some dagger? Either way, Cam will surely make it both entertaining and...
by Steve | Jun 23, 2021 | Classes
This week at Crossing Fight School, we’ll be fine-tuning our techniques and throwing ourselves into the fray as it is once again Fight Week. With the PA HEMA Open fast approaching, it would be a good idea for those competing to polish up their fencing, patch a...
by Steve | Jun 16, 2021 | Classes
This Sunday at Crossing Fight School, we will continue our review of the Krumphau and its various incarnations, both canonical and otherwise. As we will see, there’s more than one way to deploy the crooked cut, and certainty more than one way to utilize it, both...
