Cheers all!  I hope your Christmas celebrations went well and your plans for a New Year's Eve Bash are progressing well! 

2007 for the Pain Bank was sort of a transitory time and not all that great, considering my focus wasn't the SCA.  Expect us to be back with more of what you have seen in the past.  Hopefully I can get the rest of Duke Paul's videos posted up as well, so stay tuned.

So stay tuned and if you want to help out or have any requests, please feel free to email me at:

Richard fitzWilliams

Walking and balance exercise – moving forward while turning with 6 steps. (see manual)

Good for learning to keep your balance.

Walking and balance exercise – moving sideways in 3-step Us.

I suppose this one is to help you get familiar with your body movements and ensuring your balance is in your control.

The basic excercise for walking forward with proper weight transfer.  (see manual)

Same exercise as the previous one, but now from a front view point.

The basic excercise for walking forward with proper weight transfer.  (see manual for details)

This if a 4 part series.  There will be about 20 or so exercise videos in the next couple of weeks covering movement of the body and sheild.

I was sick earlier in the week and didn't get videos posted, so my appologies to everyone waiting anxiously for the next videos.  I have posted 4 more for next week.

Please visit the Armour Archive Discussion list for Duke Paul's answers to any questions you might have about these videos as I am only putting his descriptions down with some intepretations of my own.

Richard

Using a helper to ensure your snap shot motion is correct!

Snap training exercise – have student push lightly against the tips of your fingers (as shown.  Take their elbow with your other hand, and move it forward and across their chest, causing them to roll their sword hand as they move the sword forward.

 

There is also a Front View, which I will post tomorrow morning as a special weekend edition. :D

 

Next week look for something new which isn't 'slow work' per se.  Perhaps additional exercises!

Thanks again goes out to Duke Paul and visit his forum discussion section at

The Armour Archive

Using a Trainer to help ensure your snap shot motions are correct.

Snap training exercise – have student push lightly against the tips of your fingers (as shown.  Take their elbow with your other hand, and move it forward and across their chest, causing them to roll their sword hand as they move the sword forward.

 

There is also a Front View, which I will post tomorrow morning as a special weekend edition. :D

 

Next week look for something new which isn't 'slow work' per se.  Perhaps additional exercises!

Thanks again goes out to Duke Paul and visit his forum discussion section at

The Armour Archive

This video is a continuation of the Slow Work Series and Snap Training.  This is a demonstration of how the weight of your body should move to your front foot as your sword moves forward during a snap shot.

So you saw in the last video the rotation of the torso while the head stays in the same spot and you said to yourself I don't do that and probably never can.

Well, this video is for you.  It is an exercise where when your body rotates, you throw your sheild hand back at the end of the rotation.   It isn't something you would do in a fight, but it will help you get used to rotating your body for your sword blow.