A pugilistic session has been booked for 2-4pm on this coming Sunday (11th), which will include work on both the fists and the feet.

Training for March and April

More sessions have been booked for March the 11th, 18th and 25th as well as Sunday the 14th (2-4pm). In April the sessions will be the 8th, 15th 22nd and 29th, with one more session booked for May the 6th.

Please note that the venue is closed on April the 1st; please keep an eye out for extra Sunday sessions to make up for this.

Sunday pugilism

A session has been booked at the usual venue for 2-4pm on Sunday the 14th. The topic will be pugilism, including low kicks as well as punching and working on slipping.

Events

So far this year I've been asked to present classes at four events. Here's a quick summary in case anyone is interested:

SWASH, 20-21 Feb. The class here will involve punches and simple low kicks according to Émile André.

Evolution, 25th April. This will be a class in pugilism, covering striking and grappling.

Fightcamp, 13th-15th August. There should be two classes here; one on Hope's New Method and another on pugilism, or possibly André's simplified method of defence.

Smallsword Symposium, 2nd-3rd October. As the name suggests this will be sword work. There should be one class on sword-cane tactics and another on techniques for the corps-à-corps.

New training arrangement

The current system of class rotation has worked quite well, particularly in giving reasonably long sequences of lessons enabling points to be looked at in depth. However, there are disadvantages and the time has come to change it. So, for the weekly sessions each month will go as follows:

1. Small-sword.
2. As week 1.
3. Back-sword or cane.
4. Pugilism or Boxe Française.
5. A surprise! (i.e. the instructor(s) will come up with something extra if there are 5 Thursdays in the month).

This new timetable will start in March.

Sunday seminar, 24/1/10

This seminar will be from 3-5pm (but please arrive at around 2.45) in the usual venue. Mr. Marwood will be along to cover some Bartitsu-related Ju-Jitsu and there will be some Boxe Française as well.

Training, 14/1/10-4/3/10

The regular classes are as below:

January 2010:

Small-sword: 14th, 21st, 28th.

February 2010:

Pugilism: 4th, 11th, 18th.

Small-sword: 25th.

March 2010:

Small-sword: 4th.