The School of European Swordsmanship Forum

Last week I travelled through all the SES branches in Finland, barring Joensuu study group. I have to say that I was fairly impressed by many of the students, and I enjoyed the trip immensely despite having to lug a backpack and a freeplay kit with me almost everywhere I went.

The main reason for my trip was to see and experience the School of European Swordsmanship in its natural habitats. I found if fascinating how differences in teaching styles seemed to correlate with having students with different skill sets.

Some people asked me to show the spear form as done after the notes of Henkik Wadell, also posted on this forum. I'd like to point out that I didn't start the form in the way described in those notes. That was purely my mistake - you should follow the notes instead of my example. Even so, I hope my ramblings about the form and it's applications shed some light for those who want to start practicing the form on their own.

Thank you for your hospitality, and see you later!

If you ever find yourself in the cold and distant east, feel free to visit our training too and I'll warm the sauna for you afterwards.

PS. The spearform would do me good too because some of the last parts in your description proved to be a bit too mind boggling for me to understand.

Don't worry, I'm sure I will drop by at some point! I could re-write the instructions in a clearer format with references tho Ms. Getty for clarity, as the one I wrote on this forum was just straight from my notes and not really ment for people who haven't done the exercise before. Right now I'm a tad preoccupied with mundane stuff, cannot promise anything.

Risto, when do you usually have training days in Joensuu and where do you meet? I also heard vague references that you have a training diary online somewhere, could I see it?

Clarity for the form would be most excellent! In the summer we train outside on the grass field behind the stage of "Laulurinne". Lake view and sunset. It's mondays and thursdays 18-20. Winter times and places depend on what we get.

My training "blog" (it's more of a list of the things I've done) is in potku.net's "Kynä ja Vihko" section. I haven't been very active on upadating it these days.

http://potku.net/forum/viewtopic.php?f=36&t=5008