Zone 2 – Seminars
Plácida Molina
Alea iacta est: among medios is the game
Date: 25-03-2023 – 09:30 to 11:00
length: 90 minutes
Required expertise: It is a seminar suitable for all levels
Necessary equipment: Mask, jacket, gloves and rapier sword
Language: Spanish
Description: The aim of this master class is working on the forgettable “medio proporcional”
since that its properties are essential in offensive and defensive decisions. Taking into account
observation, steel sensitivity qualities together with “Verdadera Destreza” techniques, the class will
develop in conditioned assaults to prove this mechanism as source of improvement and self-assessment.
Juan Diego Conde
The use of psychology and tactics as tools in assault
Date: 25-03-2023 – 11:15 to 12:45
length: 90 minutes
Required expertise: It is a seminar suitable for all levels
Required equipment: Mask, jacket, gloves and rapier sword
Language: Spanish
Description: HEMA, like any other martial art, has a series of components that are worked on to improve combat efficiency. Typically, daily training emphasizes technical training and, usually to a lesser extent, physical work.
This is so because this art is based on centuries-old treatises that are not always clear or present (or cannot convey) the concepts of psychology and tactics.
In this workshop, psychology (from the approach of manipulating the image we project in the sparring) and tactics (understood as the ability to minimize our weaknesses while trying to exploit those of our opponent) will be worked on.
Eduardo Varela
Sword and Buckler of DomiSword and “rodela” by Domingo Luiz Godinho: Defenses, attacks and main actions.ngo Luis Godinho
Date : 25-03-2023 – 13:00 to 14:30
length: 90 minutes
Required expertise: It is a seminar suitable for all levels
Required equipment: Early rapier – pitones or lasso guard – although a late rapier can also be used.
Language: Spanish
Description: At the end of the 16th century, Domingo Luís Godinho, a Portuguese Maestro de armas wrote a manuscript entitled “Arte de Esgrima” that was never published. This manuscript is the only direct information on the styles practiced in the Iberian Peninsula before the arrival of the school known as “Verdadera Destreza” being therefore a work of inestimable value to illustrate what the “Diestros Verdaderos” called “Común o Vulgar Destreza”.
The treatise itself keeps a compilation of the weapons trained at the time, such as the single sword,
the sword and the dagger, two swords, upright, buckler and “rodela”, but in this seminar we will
focus on the use of the “rodela” in combination with the sword.
We will train the various defenses (parries, deflections) and attacks that we can use with this combination of weapons, as well as the position in which we must have the “rodela” and the sword during combat.
We will also put into practice the specific actions mentioned by the author, such as “Romper, Deshacer and Rebatir”, which will help us combine both weapons in a fluid and functional way.
Zone 3 – Seminars
Pedro Velasco
Hispanic wrestling according to Pedro Monte
Date : 25-03-2023 – 09:30 to 11:00
length: 90 minutes
Required expertise: It is a seminar suitable for all levels
Required equipment: Comfortable clothing and special care with the length of fingernails and toenails. We will work barefoot on tatami.
Language: Spanish
Description:
Wrestling is perhaps the discipline that receives the most attention in the publications of the Italian Maestro Pedro Monte.
In his writings, he shows us the particular way that Hispanics have to fight, using complex footwork
to carry out techniques called mañas, with which they support a whole way of understanding
movement in combat, transition of balances and disposition of the plants. All this is of vital
importance, since it forms the basis of his subsequent work with weapons.
In this workshop, we will work on some applications of the mañas that Monte describes to us, such
as the torno, the sacaliña, the traspié or the descaderada. And how to ultimately apply them to
sword work.
Jessica Gomes
O jogo do pau – Actions and fundamentals
Date : 25-03-2023 – 11:15 a 12:45
length: 90 minutes
Required expertise:
Required equipment:
Language: English
Description: This is an initiation seminar to the Portuguese “Jogo de Pau” in which we will work on the bases of this traditional martial art.
In the first place, the steps, defenses and basic blows will be taught, as well as some notes that would allow us to extrapolate his game to the use of the sword.
A multi-opponent combat rule will be shown below.
To finish, there will be a jogo or sparring, in which, in a controlled manner, we will put into practice what we have learned in the workshop.
Pedro Velasco
Two-handed sword according to Pedro Monte
Date : 25-03-2023 – 13:00 to 14:30
length: 90 minutes
Required expertise: It is recommended to have some ease with body mechanics and handling of the weapon to get the most out of the class, in any case, the exercises can be adapted to different skill levels.
Required equipment: Longsword or two-handed sword – they can be in their version of blunt sword or federschwert – mask, jacket and light or medium gloves.
Language: Spanish
Description:
Pedro Monte in his work “Pietro Montii exercitiorum atque artis militaris
collectanea in tres libros distincta” – which we will call Collectanea from now on – shows us, in a
general way, a large number of subjects that, directly or collaterally, will benefit the reader in the
performance of art of war.
There are a number of direct references in the training of various weapons, including the two-handed
sword.
In this seminar, we will focus on the use of this weapon, through the practical application of the
advice given in the Collectanea, through a series of exercises in which we will develop the concepts
that underlie them.
Also, we will execute some of the “levadas” that Monte describes in his book. Said levadas were
exercises similar to flourishes carried out in other schools, intended to improve the practitioner’s
physical condition, in addition to providing him with ease with the weapon in question and
facilitating the internalization of different offensive and defensive concepts.
Federico Malagutti
Incrosar in Punta di Spada: The most important game
Date : 25-03-2023 – 16:00 to 17:30
length: 90 minutes
Required expertise: It is a seminar suitable for all levels
Required equipment: Longsword or two-handed sword – they can be in their version of blunt sword or federschwert – mask, jacket and light or medium gloves.
Language: English
Description: In this seminar, the two main concepts of the “gioco largo” – long play – will be worked on, which is masterfully described in two simple plays by Maestro Fiore Furlano, and which are also the first two two-handed sword plays, which explain the concept from Incrosar in Punta di Spada.
To do this, we will analyze the various techniques that are described in the aforementioned plays,
and we will see how they manage to involve the opponent in a wide variety of tactical situations.