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After a bit more of a time lapse than I meant to have, here are the watermelon carnage photos from …
Watermelon Carnage!
08 Thursday Aug 2013
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Glimpses of the Knife
24 Wednesday Jul 2013
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We had so much fun at last weekend’s Knife Fighting Basics workshop. Here are a couple of photos to give you a taste of what we did. More to come, including the always popular slaying of the melons pics.
Getting ready:
Prepping for class is very serious work
Melons at the ready
And the knives that want to meet them
In class:
Attack by Heidi
Counterattack by Matthew
There are a few more photos on our Facebook page, and we’ll be putting more up over the next week over there and here on the website. We’ll also have posts on the knife attack video we shared in class and a separate post on the sentry takedown exercise, so stay tuned for those.
Knife Fighting Basics Coming Up!
24 Monday Jun 2013
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An advanced technique
Registration is open for A Writer’s Introduction to Knife Fighting Basics is open! You can follow this link for info on the class or go directly to the registration page if you’re ready to sign up.
Class is Saturday, July 20 from 12-4. Early-bird registration is open until July 9 and is $60. After that registration is $75. Hope to see you in class!
Faire in the Grove 2013
03 Friday May 2013
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What are you doing this lovely weekend? How about coming out to play with swords?
Academia Duellatoria will be at Faire in the Grove at McMennamin’s Grand Lodge Saturday and Sunday. Both Swords for Scribes instructors will be on hand Saturday, and Matthew will be there on Sunday to answer any questions you might have about our workshops, plus you get a chance to take some free short classes to check out some of the swordplay. Come on out and visit!
Victory Over Melons, and Upcoming Events
29 Monday Apr 2013
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We’ve been working on the next session of Swords for Scribes, and it’s going to be great! The next workshop will be in July (exact date to be announced), and it’s going to focus on knife fighting techniques. You’ll get a chace to try out some techniques using our nifty practice knives, and you’ll get to see how a trained fighter uses a knife compared to how an untrained person would do it. And, of course, there will be fighting against produce!
Make sure you’re signed up for our announcement list to get the info on dates and times as soon as it’s available as well as first dibs on registration.
If you’d like a little taste of some of the fighting techniques we teach, Academia Duellatoria will be at Faire in the Grove this weekend at McMennamin’s Grand Lodge in Forest Grove. Classes are free and lots of fun–come out and visit!
Finally, I thought I’d share a few more photos from the April 13 S4S session. Here are our students after their bouts with Count Aloupe and his minions:
S4S Session 1–That’s a Wrap!
17 Wednesday Apr 2013
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The first session of Swords for Scribes–A Writer’s Introduction to Swords and Swordplay was so much fun! We had four writers swinging swords, slaying cantaloupes, and writing up a storm.
We’re sharing a bunch of photos on our Facebook page, but I wanted to share some here, too.
Doing some writing and talking:
And possibly the favorite part of the day:
Fruit salad! Sword vs. cantaloupe
The next S4S workshop will be sometime in Summer, 2013. We’ll pick an exact date soon. Meanwhile, we’re working out which workshop to do next. Here are the choices:
- Improvised and non-traditional weapons
- Knife fighting (medieval European)
- Unarmed close-quarters combat
Leave us a comment and let us know which one you’re most interested in so we can plan accordingly. Hope to see you in class joining in on the fun!
One Week Until S4S!
05 Friday Apr 2013
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Just one week from tomorrow we will be writing, swinging swords, writing, killing melons…Are you signed up?
To make sure we have time to get the last-minute supplies we’ll need for class, we will be closing registration at noon next Friday, April 12, 2013. Make sure to sign up before then so you don’t miss all the fun!
We’re Back
05 Tuesday Mar 2013
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Finally, after a long bout of the Plague of 2013, we are back and ready to dive in to the next Swords for Scribes workshop, A Writer’s Introduction to Swords and Swordplay.
The workshop will be Saturday, April 13, 2013. Registration opens this Saturday, March 9, 2013. Tuition is $75. Check the info page for early bird discount info and details on the class.
Hope to see you there!
Rescheduling
21 Monday Jan 2013
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We are going to have to reschedule the first session of A Writer’s Introduction to Swords and Swordplay. Your instructors have come down with the flu–yuck! So sorry to have to cancel the first session, but the bodies (and doctors) say it must be so.
As soon as we are back on our feet, at least a little bit, we will pull out the calendars and get a new date set up. Stay tuned (subscribe to our very infrequent announcement list to get the latest info). Meanwhile, refunds are on their way, and we hope to see you soon.
Now, we return to our hot tea and resting.
January 26–Save the Date!
03 Monday Dec 2012
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Our first session of A Writer’s Introduction to Swords and Swordplay is scheduled for Saturday, January 26, 2013. Head over to the workshop page (linked above) for details, and make sure to subscribe to our announcement list since spaces are limited, and we’ll announce the opening of registration on the list first.
Hope to see you in class!