These pages are designed to help train new members to fight safely, confidently and well, and also to collate fight scripts for shows.
Here comes the standard caveat: Wychwood Warriors cannot and will not be held responsible for any personal injury or damage to possessions resulting from following our guides and fighting scripts. These are designed for our own personal use as responsible and trained re-enactors and should not be used by people without the correct equipment and experience to fight safely. We do not recommend their use by anyone other than training officers of established re-enactment societies.
We would like all members to read about the risks of combat and how to avoid them. The society's rules require you to protect yourself only to a certain degree and the rest of it is up to you. Decide the risks you are willing to take and equip yourself and act accordingly.
Weapons Training
Safety
Exercises
Tutorials
- Single-handed sword
- Sword & shield
- Dual wield/Florentine
- Hand-and-half sword (bastard sword)
- Knife/dagger
- Spear (one- and two-handed)
- Axe (one- and two-handed)
Fight scripts
- About the fight scripts (read first)
- Bridal
- Danegeld - 2 parts
- Gothi/healer
- The Kitchen Knight: Sir Pretty-Hands of the Round Table
- Hastings
- Holmganga and breakdown
- Land survey
- Maldon
- Odin's Chosen
- Pagans vs. christians
- Peasant grab
- Returning exile
- Trader
- Two-timer
- Valkyrie
- Wenching
Weaponry resources
- Caring for Edged Weapons
- Re-enactment blade buying
- Typology: Which weapons are authentic
- Pattern welding as explained by Paul Binns (offsite)
- What did Historical Swords Weigh? From the Association of Renaissance Martial Arts (offsite)