Sabers

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Today we had a class on the 1800’s Hutton saber done by Jeff Lord of the ARMS group.

But, to get there we had to cross the train tracks. In almost 3 years of going across these tracks to get to practice, this is the first time I’ve seen a train on them.


When we got there it was raining and we thought we might have to do the class inside.


But, it stopped raining so we spread out on the lawn.


Jeff Lord brought the other Jeff with him. The two Jeffs are very different, but both are good with swords.


It was also good to have perrin_o_ravnos back at practice, even if only for this class.


The class went well.



Even the bugs stopped biting us for a bit to watch.


We had an uneven number of people so I stood out for a bunch of it. (We did this class once before 6 years ago, and I remembered a lot of it.)


But, I did do some with other Jeff.


There were far, far more photos of this taken. But, how many photos of people holding sabers can I show? “Look, their arms are 6” higher this time!” “Look, they’re striking to the left instead of the right!”
It was a very good class and it seemed like everyone liked it, but not good for diverse photo opportunities.

On the way home, as we crossed over the lake that separates our town from Worcester, we encountered the Texas crew team.

How’s that for diverse photos?

Comments

[morgan-lafaye.livejournal.com]

Glad the class went well.

[evrgreen.livejournal.com]

Did the US Army/cavalry use the same methods and sources (Hutton?) as Europeans for sabre training?

[malterre.livejournal.com]

Hutton was cool because up until that time they'd been using the French method. He preferred to distill down a number of source to what *worked.* I was especially impressed because apparently he cited the Scottish Hope and some of the guards are similar.

[palusbuteo.livejournal.com]

Glad to hear the workshop went well.

Wow, a train on those tracks?! I had always wondered how "active" that line was myself.

Looks like a Providence-Worcester train...They come through near my town almost nightly, thankfully far enough
off they don't wake me up at night, as they do a LOT of horns