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On
Tuesday April
19, 2005 the ARMA Houston Northsiders were asked to do a demo
for Lorraine K. Stock. She is member of the English Department
and teaches Medieval Literature. ARMA Northsiders Wes White, Mike
Wrenn, Sydney Yarbrough and Kyle Cook presented a verbal, and
visual display of purposeful sword articulation. Sydney Yarbrough
gave voice to ARMA's basic principals of thought, and views of
how to utilize swords for their intended purpose. The Northsiders
presented basic guards, cuts, and showed proper use of intent
with control of various bladed weapons. Cut/counter-cut drills
were utilized to show the different situations in which basic
guards and cuts were used. After presenting various techniques,
free-play sparring was demonstrated using wooden wasters, and
blunt steel longswords. This presentation was very well received.
There was an insightful question and answer session, as well as
a time to allow the student body to physically handle the equipment
used in the presentation: swords (wooden, and steel), and armor.
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