I am in pain. After two days of very through training with Ilkka, I’ve come to the conclusion that I am but a weekend warrior. The man is a monster, his energy knows no limits, his flexibility puts acrobats to shame. And even though we tried to slow him down by putting about 16 kilos of armour on him, he’s still just as fast and strong, and continued to do push-ups and other exercises *BETTER* than us.
Still, it was a very insightful seminar, and we learned a great deal, especially in daga and abazare plays. He also went into much depth about the basic guards of the longsword, and the variations of the plays from Fiore’s mauscript. Ilkka really deserves the title of “scholar”, in every sense of the word as his presentation on the various treatise after the seminar showed. There is a great deal to think through, so I’ll chew on it for a while for now before I write anymore about it.
On a side note, E-Lynn’s historical kit is finally ready. And wonder of wonders, it surprisingly looked like a Jedi Padawan’s outfit too!
Conincidentally, Chris brought his FX light sabre along yesterday, and so we decided to play a prank on Greg (him being a great Star Wars fan) by having E-Lynn take the sword salute before class starts using the light sabre. The resulting expression on his face was… priceless 
Finally, we took and passed our evaluation yesterday, and are now full Apprentices. The road to swordsmanship just got a lot harder, I should guess.
The Compagnia Della Spada also grew, and we welcome into the ranks four more members of the company:
