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Our School
The SRS has three main aims:
Firstly, to reconstruct fencing systems that can give us a key to unlock historical western martial arts, from their inception to their last appearance before sports fencing became king, and to play a part in their renascence as a living martial art. (We do not teach sports fencing and we are not re-enactors).
Secondly, to encourage our students to study the fencing masters who have laid down their thoughts, theories and practices in treatises throughout the centuries. The SRS applies their principles in practice through training exercises and “free assault” following the tradition of the Salle de Arme to teach a greater understanding of this art, science and historical context of fencing.
Thirdly, to make these arts relavent to people today, providing an environment for exercising the body and the mind whilst fullfilling the spirit.
Instructors Andrew Feest, Duncan Fatz and Lyell Drummond are BFHS Certified Instructors who teach an ever evolving systems to their students. The systems we teach are in preparation for the duel as if the weapons were sharp, to touch without being touched, to offend in defense.
Regular classes are held each week and occasional weekend workshops are held with SRS and guest instructors. These workshops will cover rapier and many other disciplines of the Western Martial Arts.
“The truth is arranged in the precepts of fencing. They should not be measured according to the ignorance of some, who teach and write from the long use of weapons that they have and not through the science. Therefore most of the time they make a reasoned case from an inkling of substance, confusing the foolish with sugar and 'talking nineteen to the dozen'. Yet it should be judged on its own and restricted to the truth of its nature.”
Ridolfo Capo Ferro 1610 Italian fencing master
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