This workshop is for adults only and is fine for beginners or curious types. There are still slots if you're interested in joining us: $20 or $30, sliding scale. Maija just posted this below on her blog this morning to furnish her workshop participants with details about what she'll focus on for this training workshop:
(We will) "Spend some time looking at how edged weapons differ from others, how they move, how they cut, and the different ways they can be used. Then talk a little about context, and narrow down the way the Visayan Style of sword use dictates the tactics and the flow.
Spend time with recognizing range, looking at the line between safety and danger, and playing with the margin. Also practice seeing planes and angles, and working with weight shift and body angle to gain advantage. Then move on to how to use this information to see the empty spaces, and use this to steal range and thus the timing.
We'll definitely look at hand targeting and avoidance, and the tactics this engenders.
From there, probably a deeper look at the space between the players, how to calculate the geometry, define center line, left right, and forward, back, look at the meaning of 'neutral' and start some basic flow with the pendulum stepping.
Play some 2nd flow within the pendulum stepping and half body pendulum and look at the 3 main openings possible + exits.
So basically we will be comparing pencils with charcoal and pen, and looking at their relative qualities, learning how to frame a composition, divide up the paper and understand how to use the body to measure the space we are drawing in, and the object we are drawing. Perhaps even make some art ..... :-)
Maija's blog: http://swordandcircle.blogspot.com/
Go to Soja's Schedule page and select the "Adult Workshops" tab to register today.
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