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Seminar in Linköping

by on Mar.24, 2010, under General Martial Arts

Aleksander, Niklas, me, Håkan, Gunnar, Henrik and Tobias

Last weekend I was invited to teach a dagger, wrestling and longsword seminar in Linköping, Sweden. I enjoyed enormously getting together with Håkan, Gunnar, Henrik and all the others from Rost (although Gunnar now resides in Borås and is starting his own group down there).

Our training group was small but with good energy! Well done to the abovementioned, and also to Tobias, Niklas and Aleksander who all did a good job!

I’m looking forward to more training with the Rost people in the future, and though things have been a bit silent since I last visited Rost I’m sure the training will pick up more speed!

Special tack for Tobias for capturing some of the seminar on film. Here are a few video clips from the training!
(Don’t like Vimeo? Watch on Youtube instead!)

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2 Comments for this entry

  • Axel P
    April 5th, 2010 on 11:30 am

    Thanks for sharing the video Ilkka, looks like a great seminar. Alot of these excersizes seems systema inspired, is that so? They seem really cool in any case, we have to try them out.

    /Axel

  • Ilkka
    April 6th, 2010 on 11:35 am

    Hi Axel!

    Tack for the comment! Yes, indeed some of the exercises are Systema inspired. I love Systema for its method of approaching the ‘fight’ in terms of one grand flow-drill. I’d like to see this sort of exercise become more commonly used, as it basically is nothing but starting from moving away from all the attacks, then adding parries, takedowns, disarms or whatever you want to focus on at that moment. The pace can be slow to start with, and depending on how well the practitioners work together it can get faster and more challenging.

    I like the idea of stripping some intention from the attacks at first, and gradually making them more difficult to avoid, so that in a beginning stage the attacks are basically daggers (or swords) approaching you in space in one direction, without them having to be anything too clever. You still have to not get hit.

    You can notice that in the exercises here the attackers have limited attacks they can use, which is one way of making the exercise ‘easier’. Later on, they can attack however they like, and in a more advanced version it can be the attackers trying to counter the defenses of the defender, or even the defender continuing to find a proper counter to their counters.

    Notice also that the two attackers are not really working as a team, rather they are attacking in turns to make sure that the defender does not have time to ‘reset’ between each technique. If they were attacking at the same time, the exercise would be different – and way more challenging! :D

    - Ilkka