Warriors! Stephanie is hosting our end-of-the-year HEMA party at her place! It will be from 4-10PM. Please RSVP ASAP! If you need to, you may text or call Stephanie. You will find additional private information through our official Discord.

We will be having our last team dinner at Sushi King, located at: 13933 Hull Street Rd, Midlothian, VA 23112. Please make sure to RSVP by Wednesday, otherwise, you may not have a seat ready! The price is $16.99 for an adult dinner buffet. Please keep this in mind when RSVP'ing.  Rides can and will be offered for team members. If you have trouble with transportation, please speak to your Rotmeister, who can and will help you find a ride.

Fight night is our annual regional tournament where we invite everyone who's interested to come down and fight with us. We use the same ruleset, registration, and scoring system as Lambpoint, so consider this a dress rehearsal. Officers in training have full command over the events planning and execution.  We will be using our ruleset from Rampoint/Lambpoint, linked below: Tournament Rules  

This will be our last practice for the semester. Since it is the night before Fight Night, we will be going through the guest lecture lesson from last Saturday, and then move into a mock-competition. We will train for a Fight Night, both in sparring and in judging. Rotmeisters will be in charge of making sure the judges and directors are getting proper training and practice. Officers will be in charge of coaching fighters during their exchanges, and overseeing the training of directors and judges. This is THE night to come before Fight Night!

We will be filming the following Rot Drills: Parrying 7-UP (mastercuts) Zwerch-It Twitch-Response Fencer Vision Please be at the Workshop Video Studio 10 minutes before hand with all your gear so that we can talk about what will take place and get ready for filming! Make sure to know these inside and out.

Charles Lin is one of the longsword instructors at CKDF and one of the principal researchers at CKDF. He'll be teaching us how to take techniques and apply them to a tactical and combative setting.

Learning to read and manipulate distant or aggressive fighters is essential to being able to fight a wide variety of people. Today we look at how to tackle or keep away different types of fighters.  Lesson plan 

This is the last open Saturday to get additional training and practice in. Make the most of it and all the fun weapons we have.  Lesson plan

Grappling is an important part of fencing, while the school will not permit us to throw we can still explore pommels and positions of dominance.  Lesson plan

Mike Croke is the head instructor at RKDF and a very talented instructor. He has trained world class fighters and is known for being a confident and competent fighter. He'll be offering us an in-depth examination of the 4 master cuts.  

Rot competitions are designed to prepare fighters for tournaments by pitting the different rots against each other. The focus is on not doubling, each fighter gets one exchange. if they score points then those points are added to their Rot's total score. However if they double then 2 points are deducted from their Rot's total score. The Rot that has the highest score at the end of the competition wins the scepter of victory. Individual scores are also calculated. Officers in training are in charge.  You must purchase a ticket to register, please fill out all the required information. Registration begins at 18:15, if you are not present and registered by 18:45 you forfeit your spot. Please refer to the VCU Rot competition ruleset before regestration. 

This is a chance for the mentors to debrief the officers in training and offer some observations and critique as well as prep for next month's Rot drills. Everyone else gets open floor and mixed weapons.  Lesson plan