Welcome to the GHEFA Octoberfist 2024.
Theme: ACTION & RE-ACTION
Date of event: 26th to 27th October 2024
Event venue: Broadwell Memorial Hall (see in above menu: ‘Training/Training and Venues: Broadwell Memorial Hall’ for details)
Cost: £30/person.
Facilities: Sleeping available in the Hall. Shops local for lunches/supplies, Coleford town centre a few minutes drive from venue. Saturday evening at Bespoke Brewery.
All GHEFA events have a common theme running through all classes, and these will always be concerning the re-enforcement of proper martial principles, specifically Action and Reaction, in this instant.
We will be doubling classes and splitting attendance between the two classes per timeslot. This doesn’t mean you have to choose which class you attend as you will be attending all the classes, just whether you’re in Group 1 or Group 2 (G1 or G2), and if you’ll attend the first class of each subject, or the repeat. If there are insufficient numbers for this to become necessary then the repeat will not be taking place and all activities will take place in the main hall.
Breaks and Lunches do not have fixed beginnings but do have fixed endings. If your class runs short or long (maximum of +/- 15 mins), you will have a maximum of 45 minutes for a break/ 1 hour 15 minutes for lunch, or a minimum or 15 minutes for break and 45 minutes for lunch. This is very much dependant on the instructor of that class at that time.
If you’re wondering why specific G1 and G2 classes do not run consecutively then this is because a class instructor might want to participate in the other classes as well.
Instructor group initials:-
SMEF: School of Medieval European Fencing https//thesmef.co.uk
LSD: Linacre School of Defence https://sirwilliamhope.org/
SSA: Silver School of Arms https://www.silverschoolbolton.com
Timetable of classes (subject to change): Currently version: 2
| Saturday 28th | Sunday 29th | |||
| Times | Main Hall | Upper room | Main Hall | Upper room |
| 08.00-08.30 | Introduction and warm-up | Introduction and warm-up | ||
| 08.30-10.30 | Messer (Tomasz Lipinski – SMEF) G1 |
Knife plays (Adrian Boyd – SMEF) G2 |
Sword & Buckler (Dave Casserly – SSA) G2 |
Knife plays (Adrian Boyd – SMEF) G1 |
| 10.30-10.45 | Break (flexible start. Fixed end) | Break (flexible start. Fixed end) | ||
| 10.45-12.45 | Staff: A tail with two ends. (Chris Stride – SMEF) G2 |
Pugilism (Milo Thurston – LSD) G1 |
Staff: A tail with two ends. (Chris Stride – SMEF) G1 |
TBA |
| 12.45-13.30 | Lunch (flexible start. Fixed end) | Lunch (flexible start. Fixed end) | ||
| 13.30-15.30 | Longsword: Working from the bind. (Chris Stride – SMEF) G1 |
Pugilism (Milo Thurston – LSD) G2 |
Messer (Tomasz Lipinski – SMEF) G2 |
Tae Kwon Do (Dan Nixon – SMEF) G1 |
| 15.30-15.45 | Break (flexible start. Fixed end) | Break (flexible start. Fixed end) | ||
| 15.45-17.45 | Sword & Buckler (Dave Casserly – SSA) G1 |
Tae Kwon Do (Dan Nixon – SMEF) G2 |
Longsword: Working from the bind. (Chris Stride – SMEF) G2 |
TBA |
| 17.45-18.30 | Play then Social | Play then Home | ||