~ Training ~
Lessons with Europeo consist of the following
Salute’
- Students line up and Salute’ the Insegnante’ (instructor), they then get ready for their lesson.
The warm up
- Will get you ready for the rigours of the lesson and reinforce you basic swordsmanship utilising basic cuts, guards and percussive blows. They are vigorous and designed to assist your muscle memory in order to refine technique!
The body
- This will consist of revisiting previous techniques and patterns with a will to greater mastery of the technique being studied. This is also the part of the lesson where we introduce new techniques etc. Students do this both in pairs and by themselves.
Group time
- This part of the lesson is devoted to reaction training, intuition training and strategy. It is fun and gives a context for the techniques we learn at Europeo.
Salute’
- Students Salute the instructor and are then dismissed.
Whilst lessons have a friendly feel to them discipline is maintained to ensure safety of the students at all times.
[Sample lesson from Europeo School of Sword]
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