Friendly Fencing Fellowship

08/16/2024

Friendly Fencing Fellowship practices have officially wrapped-up! Thanks to everyone who joined us this summer. For more information on the historical material on which our fencing was based, please check out www.Wiktenauer.org

Take care of yourselves and each other!

07/27/2024

Practice for tonight, 7/27, is cancelled. Have a great week!

07/20/2024

There is no practice tonight, 7/20/24. Have a nice week!

07/04/2024

Practice this Saturday, July 6th is cancelled. Have a wonderful week!

06/22/2024

Practice for tonight, June 22nd is cancelled. We apologize for any inconvenience this may cause.

05/17/2024

Attention: Fencing practice this Saturday, May 18th is cancelled. Sorry for the inconvenience and have a good week!

04/29/2024

Practice this past Saturday was once again focusing on George Silver's concepts of judgement, distance, time and place. We also introduced the historical fencing game called 'defending the wall'. Fencers paired up, one partner was tasked with attacking, and the other tasked with defending the wall using only protective actions.

04/22/2024

At practice this past week we tried a version of "combat at the barrier" in order to work on managing distance. Our version employed a piece of tape across the floor that could not be crossed, and legs were a valid target. This seemed to greatly help everyone become aware of their distance, and added a new challenging limitation to their fencing.

04/22/2024

Here is a link to a video of the material we covered at practice this past Saturday.

"Four Principles of that True Fight at All Manner of Weapons"

Judgment - through Judgment, you keep your Distance.

Distance - through Distance you take your Time.

Time - through Time you safely win or gain the Place of your adversary.

Place - the Place being won or gained you have time safely either to strike, thrust, ward, close, grip, slip or go back.

A short demonstration of the principles of distance and timing drawn from George Silver's teachings.

04/21/2024

Class tonight was focusing on judgement, distance, time and place. We will be posting our short instructional video demonstrating these concepts shortly. Thanks to everyone for coming out and for doing such a great job tonight!

04/14/2024

Friendly Fencing Fellowship's first practice is in the books! We had a good turnout and everyone did very well. Thank you to everyone who came out, and we are looking forward to seeing you next week!

Classes are $5 and will be every Saturday from 6:30-7:30 pm. Be sure to check out our website and send us a message if you are interested in participating.

04/13/2024

Just a reminder that our first practice is tomorrow (Saturday) evening at 6:30 pm! Be sure to message us if you plan on participating, and please bring $5 for the session. We have some loaner equipment available for anyone who does not yet have their own. We will see everyone tomorrow!