by Steve | Oct 12, 2024 | Classes
This week at Crossing Fight School, we will resume our foray into Messer. This will be our theme for a few classes to come so that people can get a feel for it before we turn to other material in the months ahead. See you all on Sunday.
by Steve | Oct 3, 2024 | Classes
This week at Crossing Fight School, our class will be led by everyone’s favorite spectre, the Phantom himself, Aidan Witherspoon. 👻 The subject of this class will be the first in a series of much-anticipated lessons in our favorite piece of KDF cutlery, the...
by Steve | Sep 26, 2024 | Classes
This week at Crossing Fight, it is Fight Week once again. As is our custom, the last week of the month will be devoted to a class designed to help fighters polish their skills, strategize, and obtain a firm grasp of some essential Longsword skills. It’s been...
by Steve | Sep 20, 2024 | Classes
This week at Crossing Fight School, our class will once again be led by the incomparable Mike “Colonel” Sanders, as he schools us in the ways of Bartitsu once again. This was an extremely popular class the first time around, and I’m sure this one...
by Steve | Sep 13, 2024 | Classes
This week at Crossing Fight School, a handful of us will be at the tournament in Michigan, and no formal class is scheduled, so the floor will be open for sparring. As new people continue to find us online and train with us, there is a definite need for our more...
by Steve | Sep 6, 2024 | Classes
This week at Crossing Fight School, we will be having a unique and much-anticipated class led by the one and only Andrew Mineo. The class will center around Longsword principles applied to Sabre, and if you’ve ever fenced Andy before in Sabre, then you know what...
by Steve | Aug 30, 2024 | Classes
This week at Crossing Fight School, we will be having a collaboration class of sorts. I would like to accomplish a couple of things. First, with the use of sparring games, I would like to see fighters remedy certain deficiencies in their fencing, shoring up any...
by Steve | Aug 23, 2024 | Classes
This week at Crossing Fight School, the illustrious duo of Austin Straub and Ian Burgess-Linden will be at the helm, teaching us two critical elements of fencing – footwork and parrying. These two key ingredients are what makes most of what we do both functional...
by Steve | Aug 16, 2024 | Classes
This week at Crossing Fight School, we will be having another installment of the Hidden Hew Review, as there are many new people now training with us who could use a more formal introduction to the strikes which comprise the basis of many attacks and plays in KDF....
by Steve | Aug 8, 2024 | Classes
This week at Crossing Fight School, we will once again resume our study of Paurenfeyndt’s Longsword, as we draw ever nearer to the conclusion of his treatise. This class will feature, among other things, a few key techniques common to close-in fencing, where...