Gentle Readers,

Last night through poor planning my fencing armour went to Kanata instead of with me to practice. This meant I only had the kit to go to OCS. Thankfully I did remember my gauntlets so I didn't do anything stupid like freeplay without hand protection.

We started off with some unarmed dagger defence looking at thrusts from the left and right highline and from the low line. The three can be merged into a 2 person 1 knife drill:
A: high right
B: counter then high left
A: counter then low
B: counter then high right
Repeat.

Then we moved to messer. We looked at the entrusthauw (shieldhauw) from different wards and against cuts. The explored next steps is the cutter binds before you can strike. Option 1 is to drop your pommel over his blade and step in with a halfsword thrust. Option 2 is similar but the bind is over their wrist and use your free hand to roll up under their elbow and arm lock them. Option 3 is for when they pull back and you flow with them into the triangle lock, free hand on pommel over your other hand.

Last, we did some freeplay using guy windsor's system. 2 fight while a third watches. On a hit, players stop and observer describes the hit with corrections from fighters. Then hit is recreated. Finally a counter is devised.

Then I went home and crashed.