Thanks to Martin Austwick and Scott Brown for taking the time to share their expertise with the school, despite a low turnout for training this week they gladly stepped up and took everyone through quick fire (3/4 of an hour each) introduction to their training methods.
Scott Brown, in one of the few still moments of his lesson
Scott took us through his Lutegerus (I.33) flow drills which are are almost like a chant, repetitive simple and common sense structured, with an occasionally added technique to make the drill progressively more complex, a very, very good way of learning the system, and as one student said “the techniques just drop out”.
I was pleased as well to see our sense of timing distance and the awareness of vulnerabilities in system are pretty much identical.
Martin shows that flying out is just an excuse to “hit him more”. I approve
Martin Austwick gave a brutally functional introduction to George silvers fighting system.
One of the most wonderful things about watching Martin teach, is his emphasis on the fighting system as a whole (not as I have seen often in other “Silverists” an obsession with flying out, or just as commonly, the misuse of true gardent against a variable fight).
He concentrated on a very brief and to the point explanation of gaining the place, which made for a simple and secure manner of entering to batter your opponent.
As Oz (Martin) said “it’s not a sword fight, it’s a fight, you just happen to be holding a sword”.
Which, using timing and measure he illustrated wonderfully.
If you get a chance to train with either of these Gents, snap it up, both have simple practical explanations and vindications of their interpretations. They communicate their systems extremely well, and you can see their desire is to make the student fight well with it too, not to parade their knowledge and skills, but to impart them.
Martin, me and Scott, “We are instructors, take us seriously”
Thanks guys.
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