@steve.frey I did my best interpreting your playbuild. I hope I got close. I wasn’t quite sure which side the stramazone and thrust were suppose to be on.

Looks good Steve. I like your volta stablile of the sword into fenestra on the right, although different from the my recording, it’s still a viable option since the amount you’ll need to volta will depend on your opponent.

Hey @stela.menezes , here’s my interpretation of your play.

Hope I got it right. I struggled with the right finestra while working through this with a partner.

Looks great Stela, looks exactly how I intended it. See my video, which I will upload in a minute.

Week 1 & 2: Tues and Thurs – Group training Messer and Longsword.

Week 3

Topic: Lower Quadrant

Schedule: Monday through Thursday at least an hour a day.

Plan:

Monday – Short practice

Tuesday – Group practice – Messer and Longsword

Wednesday – Medium practice

Thursday – Group practice – Messer and Longsword

Friday – Big practice and shoot…

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Week 4

<strong style=”font-size: inherit;”>Topic: Multiple Defenses

Schedule: Tuesday through Friday at least an hour a day.

Plan:

Monday – No practice

Tuesday – Short practice and Group Practice

Wednesday – Medium practice

Thursday – Medium practice and Group Practice

Friday – Big practice

Contingency: Short practice and/or Read

Victory Laps. Played it smart. No sparring while still recovering

Course Corrections. keep working on time to Make some videos

Aha Moments. Need to get back to scheduling

Monday – Friday followed training plan.

Thursday Group practice was messer – locks and counter to locks. Did not sparred due to slightly reinjuring arm.

Week 3

Topic: More Counter Striking

Schedule: Monday through Friday at least an hour a day.

Plan:

Monday – Short practice

Tuesday – Medium practice

Wednesday – Short practice

Thursday – Medium practice and Group Practice

Friday – Big practice

Contingency: Short practice and/or Read

Victory Laps. Trained all week

Course Corrections. Really I need to make some videos

Aha Moments. None

Week 2

Topic: Counter Strike

Schedule: Monday through Friday at least an hour a day.

Plan:

Monday – Short practice

Tuesday – Short practice

Wednesday – Short practice

Thursday – Medium practice

Friday – Big practice

Contingency: Short practice and/or Read

Victory Laps. Small improvement in sparring due to practice.

Course Corrections. Make some videos

Aha Moments. None

Day 6 – Attended Partisan Workshop

Day 1 – Group Sparring for one hour – focused on attacking opportunities in Primo Tempo. Watched Sunday Workshop Sword in Armour earlier in the day.

Day 2 – Short Practice

Day 3 – Big Practice

Day 4 – Group practice – Messer – defenses against hooking with the hilt. Sparred for 30 minutes (focused on collecting and making cover when opponent makes…

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Week 1

Topic: Primo Tempo

Schedule: Monday through Thursday at least an hour a day.

Plan:

Monday – Group Sparring focus on Primo Tempo. Also watch the Sunday’s Workshop – Sword in Armour

Tuesday – Short practice

Wednesday – Big practice

Thursday – Medium practice and Group practice

Friday – Big practice

Contingency: Short practice and/or Read

Victory Laps. Great to be training.

Course Corrections. Try and attend some live classes

Aha Moments. None

April Week 4

Day 1 – Recovery

Day 2 – Mobility, deadlifts and Short practice

Day 3 – Mobility and Medium practice

Day 4 Mobility, ab exercises, shoulder exercises, big practice. Group class canceled.

Day 5 – Mobility and short practice.

Week 4

Topic: Do the prescribed homework, plus focus health issues.

Schedule: Tues – Friday: 30 min – 1 hour practice.

Plan:

Monday – Recovery from a weekend of hard labor.

Tuesday – Mobility, Short Practice, and research

Wednesday – Mobility, strength training, and Medium Practice

Thursday – Mobility, Big Practice and Group Training

Friday –…

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Victory Laps. Read some of “The Complete Renaissance Swordsman”

Course Corrections. Just be patience and take one day, one week, and one month at a time.

<strong style=”font-size: inherit;”>Aha Moments. Need to focus more on what going on internally and solidify a routine for strength training.

Thank you! 🙂

Thank you!🙂

Week 3

I have not trained. ☹

Week 2

Plan was to train all week, but I let life weigh me down. I was able to make group practice with Sword to Sword Thursday

Victory Laps. Focused on basics during group training with was all sparring.

Course Corrections. Keep going.

Aha Moments.

Victory Laps. Mobility and being remembering to be careful is helping

Course Corrections. Mobility twice day

Aha Moments. None

Day 1 – 5 except Thursday everything went according to plan. Thursday Group Training was canceled.

Topic: Back to it

Schedule: Monday – Friday: 1 to 2 hours

Plan:

Monday – Mobility of injury and run through of the various forms

Tuesday – Mobility and Short Practice

Wednesday – Mobility and Big Practice

Thursday – Mobility, Short Practice and Group Training

Friday – Mobility and Medium Practice

Contingency: Short Practice and review German guards and
strikes.

Victory Laps. Worked on mobility every day for injury. Train with sword 3 days out of the week.

Course Corrections.

Reflection on improvements on injury contingency plans

Aha Moments.

How much mobility exercises matter.

Week 5

Topic: Very lite week, due to reinjuring bicep. 😟

Schedule: Wed – Friday – 5 to 10 minutes

Plan:

Monday – Rest

Tuesday – Rest

Wednesday – Unarmed Posta Form

Thursday – Gioco Largo Defense Form

Friday – Gioco Stretto Defense Form

Contingency: Run through foot work with focus on deeper stances.

Victory Laps.

Still trained this week despite a strained bicep muscle.

Course Corrections.

None.

Aha Moments.

That I was able to work around my injury.

Day 1 – Unarmed Posta for about 10 minutes moving slowly.

Day 2 – Cuts and Thrust for 15 minutes

Day 3 – Foundation Cuts Forms for 10 minutes

Day 4 Gioco Largo Defense form for 15 minutes

Day 5 Gioco Stretto Defense form for 15 minutes

Week 4

Topic: Doing my own thing – light week due to strained bicep muscle.

Schedule: Mon – Fri about an hour of practice.

Plan:

Monday – Unarmed Posta Form

Tuesday – Moving through cuts and thrust with plastic trainer.

Wednesday – Foundational Cuts Form with light sword trainer.

Thursday – Gioco Largo Defense Form

Friday – Gioco Stretto…

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Victory Laps. Consistent training

Course Corrections. none

Aha Moments. take some time to smell the flowers.

Day 4 – Big Practice and Group practice consisted of learning messer plays & sparring with messer and longsword

Day 5 – Short practice and recorded some videos for review

Day 6 – Attended Sword to Sword’s Schutzenfest – an all day event that consisted of a wide range of martial events which were practiced in medieval Germany.

Day 1 – Sick day

Day 2 – 20 minute stationary bike and Short Practice

Day 3 – Push ups, pull ups, punch sit ups, lungs, squats and Medium Practice

What stood out to you?<div>

The different option that are discovered in interpretation.

Did you have any big “aha moments” in your training?

Connections between the German and Italian thoughts on swordplay.

What was most challenging?

Trying to explore certain techniques without a partner.

Did you meet your own objectives?

Yes

What do you think you…

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Week 3

Topic: Prescribed

<b style=”font-size: inherit;”>Schedule: Tues – Friday 2 to 3 hours

<b style=”font-size: inherit;”>Plan:

a. Tues – Short Practice

b. Wed – Medium Practice

c. Thurs – Big Practice and Group Practice

d. Fri – Short Practice and Record videos

Contingency: Short Practice

Solo Playbuild for LS5

1. Your opponent is waiting in posta di donna

2. From porta di ferro mezza, you enter measure with a passing step and make a guard transition to posta di donna.

3. Your opponent strikes mandritto fendente to the left side of your head while passing forward.

4. You parry with a half cut mandritto…

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Victory Laps. Trained 5 days out of the week.

Course Corrections. Still trying to find a partner to train with. Working on different options.

Aha Moments. Need partner time to train some of the issues I have while sparring.

Day 5 – Short practice, beginning with a yard work warm up of mowing, weed eating, edging.

Day 4 – Small Practice, 1 hour messer practice, and 30 minutes sparring ( tried to focus on Gioco Largo and Gioco Stretto Defense techniques).

Day 3 –

30 stationary bike HITT workout

15 cool down / warm up

Short and Big Practice

except the Longsword
Fundamentals III: Timing, Defense & Sparring course

Day 2

Parry with retreat, then attack
– 2 sets of 10 reps

Parry with pass back, then
attack – 2 sets of 10 reps

Defensive footwork: fade then
attack – 20 reps

Practice the Gioco Largo
Defense Form – 5 reps. Emphasizing movement of the
weapon ahead of the body in counter-attack

Cutting through longa with
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Day 1 –

Watched the replay of the workshop and practiced the Guards and Strikes during the workshop and after on my dummy for about 15.

March – Week 2 Training Log

Topic: A little German, a little Italian, and a little
of my own.

Schedule: Monday – Friday 2 to 3 hours

Solo and Partner Practice.

Plan:

Monday – Watch German for Italians Workshop and Practice

Tuesday – Short Practice

Wednesday – Big Practice

Thursday – Short Practice and Group Training

Friday – Medium…

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Victory Laps. Completed most of what I planned for the week.

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<strong style=”font-size: inherit;”>Course Corrections. Try and get more videos done.

Aha Moments. nothing that stood out this week. Just noticed a slight improvement over last week.

Thank you for the feedback!

#4 apricate the clarification.