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Saturday: Bloxham Steam Fair, nr. Banbury. Visited some ACW people, both ACWS and SOSKAN. Handed over powder to ACWS, loaned a flag to the Louisiana Tigers. Looked at and listened to pretty fairground organs, met some ferrets, did a little shopping (second-hand books, wooden bucket, cheap cloth tape), dodged the rain. Got the photos to finish off MSH for this month. And stopped of at an Italian in MK on the way back - salad, risotto, all fairly diet-friencly stuff.

Sunday: lie-in, then 5 hours of sword workshop. Well, swords, quarterstaffs, and daggers.

All fascinating stuff - doing the Marozzo dagger techniques with a nice thick mat to be thrown on makes all the difference. (They're not so much how to use a dagger as how to remove a dagger from your opponent's grip, while breaking their arm in several places, possibly their neck as well, and leaving them on the floor.)

Looks like the quarterstaff is a VERY effective weapon, if you know what you're doing and have just a little more muscle than I do. I managed to knacker my shoulder and had to drop out for a bit. But given the space to work in, any weapon where your lunge can go a good four feet forwards, and you can hit them with both ends of the same weapon as a follow-up, looks good to me. My next thought is how this relates to the use of long spear, 2H, rather than sword, for Vingans. Spear & shield is not a duelling weapon. But 2H spear, used with 1/4staff techniques and enough space - oh, yes. Any poor sod with just a sword, or even sword and shield, has no chance. Even three to one is apparently still a walk-over for the Qstaff. If, if, you have the space. About six feet clear to either side, please.


Meanwhile, Dave has finished the extra wiring and painting in the lounge and kitchen. Tonight, we can put the bookshelves back up and fill them.
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