Dirty Tricks and Handmade Protection

Sword & Shield: Grapples, Shield Strikes and Other Dirty Plays

Saturday, May 5, 2012 3pm-7pm

Close engagements, throws, disarms, pommel strikes, shield strikes, and many more rough and tumble plays are the heart of this workshop on sword and shield grappling.

This workshop will offer practitioners of any experience level a set of useful tools for adding the 'fight' to their combative skillset. The techniques approached here are not the tools of the gentlemanly engagement but of the medieval street fight and battlefield engagement.

Students will learn:

- The fundamentals for success in the close plays.

- How to safely, quickly, and powerfully enter into grappling plays.

- How to exit and avoid grappling plays.

- Grappling and counter-grappling techniques.

- Shield strikes, pommel strikes, how to blind your opponent, throw them with their own weapon, and other dastardly plays.

Instructor: Devon Boorman

Cost: $60 + HST (15% off for members!)

Armouring Spring Course

Begins Sunday, May 6, 2012 10:00am-2:00pm for Six Sundays

Make hardened leather armour to suit your specific needs! The six week spring armouring course is considered 'open' meaning you decide what you want to make!

Gorget - $115 + HST

Shoulders - $150 + HST

Arms - $215 + HST

Shoulders & Arms - $300 + HST

Torso - $325 + HST

Legs - $215 + HST

All basic materials are included in the price. Special requests (dye, etc) can be given to the instructor on the first day of class and be paid for separately.

No prior experience necessary. Please register either in person or over the phone during operating hours (Mon-Fri 10am-9pm and Sat 10am-5pm) at 604-568-9907 and please specify what you would like to do.

Instructor: TBA