Salle Saint-George

Alliance Française — Marchés de Noël, 2011

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Fencing Demonstrations at the Alliance Française Marchés de Noël celebration. December 17th, 2011.

Open House — Dec 2011

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Open House & Public Demonstrations — December 10th, 7-9pm

Fencing demonstrations, live music, lecture, and social.

Victorian Cane Defence, 11/12/2011

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Held Port Townsend, WA on November 12th, 2011. Participants stayed at the Old Consulate Inn, owned by our very own Nathan Barnatt.

Josh Brown’s Prize Fight

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Congratulations to Mr. Josh Brown who held and successfully passed his public exhibition & prize fight. This is a salle tradition where a student must fence and reasonably defend himself from all senior students. If successful, the student is formally accepted as a serious scholar into the school.

French Knife Workshop

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Saturday October 8th, 2011

This Saturday workshop will focus on applying our traditional method of French poignard directly to knife defense. Our method of French poignard comes down to us through Maitre Marcel Cabijos.

We will cover the basic guards, movements, methods of attack and defense, along with how to manipulate time in a knife fight. Most importantly we will examine how the knife actions differ from those practiced with our training poignards. Mr. Dave Slocombe will be be joining us to work on connective locks and in-fighting.

Dueling Sword Workshop, 2011

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Salle Saint-George hosted an afternoon workshop on traditional French dueling sword (Épée du Combat) with Maestro Ramón Martínez of the Martinez Academy of Arms in New York.

By the last quarter of the 19th Century, some French fencing masters were reviving aspects of earlier 17th Century smallsword and adapting these to the use of their dueling sword. The goal was to simplify what they felt had become a very complex system of foil training that was unsuited to the realities of the dueling ground.

Martial Arts University

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Martial Arts University brings together practitioners of Eastern and Western traditional martial arts to demonstrate and discuss the theory that guides their physical practice. To learn more about this event, click on the event page here.

A video summary of the 2011 MAU can be found on our YouTube Channel.

Open House & Demos, 2011

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Saturday, July 23rd 7-9pm

Join us at Salle Saint-George, Seattle’s only classical fencing school, for an enjoyable evening of classical fencing and the science of self-defence. An evening likely you have never experienced.

YouTube Video of the Demonstrations:

Longsword Seminar, 2011

admin — Tue, 22 Mar 2011 20:00:34 +0000

We will be offering an introductory seminar on longsword technique focused on the scientific manipulation of the weapon. If you are interested in learning more about historical fencing, this is an ideal way to start.

Longsword-2011

Photos of our March 2011 Longsword Workshop at Salle Saint-George. This was an introductory seminar for anyone interested in learning more about longsword.

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Navaja & Savate Seminar, 2010

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On an unexpectedly sunny October weekend in Seattle, Salle Saint-George hosted a workshop in the use of Navaja (Spanish knife) and Savate (French kick-boxing). Maestro James Loriega from Raven Arts Institute in New York was invited out to teach two days of self-defense techniques using both of these traditional European martial arts. The weekend began with a brief history of each art and by the final day had developed to students practicing unarmed counters against an assailant armed with a knife.

Navaja 2010

Photos of our Fall 2010 Navaja and Savate workshop with Maestro James Loriega at Salle Saint-George.

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