by Siobhan Richardson | Jun 18, 2014 | Cross Training
Your feet are your stability. They are your first line of communication with the floor, but so many of us spend all of our time in shoes that don’t allow us to feel the floor. For this reason, I like to start many of my classes with a foot warm-up. After...
by Siobhan Richardson | Jun 12, 2014 | Cross Training
Many people who come to stage combat have not studied martial arts and very often they have never been in a fight or in a sparring/fencing situation. So that you can play the force and structure of a hit — on both the giving and receiving ends, you’ll do...
by Siobhan Richardson | Jun 8, 2014 | Cross Training
As promised, here are some drills that you can do with a sword or “sword-like object”, as Steaphen Fick says in his longsword book. First, here’s a great handling exercise from Guy Windsor’s blog:...
by Siobhan Richardson | Jun 7, 2014 | Cross Training
For many years, I didn’t actually know what “Core” is. I knew it had something to do with torso and stability, and I knew it was was important — people were always telling me that I needed to use it — but I had no specifics. For years I...
by Siobhan Richardson | Jun 2, 2014 | Cross Training
“One of the best pieces of advice Siobhan gives when she teaches is ‘think about your breathing’.” There is a big difference between “Breathe! Breathe! Don’t forget to breathe!” and a gentle reminder of “think about your...
by Siobhan Richardson | Jun 1, 2014 | Cross Training
Performing a fight scene in a show is essentially sprinting at the end of a marathon. Every night you experience the intense build of an emotional story and then it explodes, both emotionally and physically, into fight scene. First previews an opening nights are an...
