Description
The warm up is a crucial part of any training session. It gets you moving, loosens you off, and prepares you for the physical activity ahead. It is how you set yourself up for success in the session, and how you can help avoid injuring yourself with overly-vigorous movements.
Many people’s exercise of warming up is often that it can be both boring and fairly irrelevant to the martial art in question. The choice of exercises is often what leads to this unfortunate state of affairs. It doesn’t have to be like this, though!
In this video course, we show a variety of useful exercises with the longsword that you can use for warming up at the start of a session. They are examples of exercises that Keith Farrell uses when teaching at his club Liverpool HEMA or when teaching workshops at events. Furthermore, these exercises are also useful technical lessons, in and of themselves, and they can be used to improve your sword handling skills and the effectiveness of your performance while fencing.
Finally, these exercises also serve for useful solo training if you are unable to attend your club for a period of time.
The lessons are delivered by way of videos with voiceovers (and with textual video transcripts, in case you would prefer to read while watching in silence).
For more information, please see the course page itself:
https://www.academyofhistoricalarts.co.uk/course/longsword-warm-up-technical-exercises/
