Sword and Shield Sparring: VIKING ROUND SHIELDS [ Historical Martial Arts ]

North West Historical Fencing- Full contact HEMA style sparring with viking age sword and large center-gripped shields. In this session we try and improve our technique using a training aid we call ’fighting for the X’ In the center of the room is an ’X’ marked on the ground, the objective is to take and hold it for as long as possible. Once you have captured the ’X’ by standing on it, your opponent has to be the one to force you off be attacking and will then attempt to recapture it. There is no win condition attached to this, but we have found it very useful to train out bad habits such as fencing too passively.