BRANCH - Boston Area, MA

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The Boston Area Branch of the SSG, Inc.
Established: April 2006
Promoted to Branch: Feb. 2010
Istruttori: Charles Deily, David Knight, Jasen Boyle and Dan Barron

Email: ssgforum AT comcast.net
Scribes/Reporters: Jasen Boyle and Noah Goldman

Primary Foci: Italian medieval sword in one and two hands, azza, daga, abrazare.

The Boston Area branch has a Saturday class has been in Arlington, MA during the nice summer weather and indoors in Cambridge, MA when its cold.  Additionally, for more experienced folk, we have a Thursday night meeting weekly in Watertown, MA, near Bridge Street.  Contact Charles (email: ssgforum AT comcast.net ) for more details on joining us, or check out our Meetup pages.  Any cancellations (due to weather, etc.) are ALSO made on Meetup .


CURRENT CLASSES
We're back to our regular practices--let us know if you want to start!

Watertown Practice: Thursday evenings, 7:00 - 9:45, Watertown
57 Stanley Ave, Watertown, MA
(Google Maps has been corrected to show that you can only reach Stanley Ave from Waltham St, not Pleasant St--but be careful if you're working from older maps!)

Currently, we're all working on Fiore's dagger and abrazzare plays for the first half of class, then splitting up to work on different material.

Arlington Practices Magnolia Field, Arlington MA -- just off the bike path between Magnolia and Thorndike. THIS IS OUTDOORS, AND MAY BE CANCELLED WITH POOR WEATHER.

COMING EVENTS

 

2013 Iron Gate eXhibition (IGX)
IGX Website
Formerly the Boston Sword gathering (BSG), this is co-hosted with our friends at Forte Swordplay.  It's a great New England event for historical European martial arts.  Come find out what's happening here!

PAST EVENTS

 

Boston Sword Gathering VIII
September 28th - 30th, 2012
From such humble beginnings, the BSG got BIG!  Check the link for details.

2012 SSG SYMPOSIUM
August 17th-19th, 2012
SSG Dallas once again took on the mantle of hosting, and SSG Boston brought down our latest dieas and training to share.

Boston Sword Gathering VII & Higgins Workshop
April 28 & 29, 2012
A fun weekend, with Bob Charron showing us how tempo and measure affect the art.  Saturday was "The Sound and the Fiore," at the Higgins, featuring lectures, workshops and discussions by Bob, Erik Schmitt, Ken Mondsheim and Charles Deily, while Sunday was more workshops with Erik (on body mechanics), Bob (Sword in One Hand), and Jake Norwood (Haupt games), plus open sparring.

Novice Workshop
April 15, 2012
Co-hosted with Forte Swordplay, this was a chance for interested beginners to see both the Italian and German traditions.  We worked on grappling, sword, and dagger.

BOSKONE DEMO
February 18th, 2012
The Higgins Academy of the Sword and Higgins Sword Guild hosted a demo and open freeplay at Boskone, a local science fiction convention.  Yes, Charles tried dagger versus spadone.  Yes, he has bruised shins, but otherwise did well.

2011 SSG SYMPOSIUM
June 10th-12th, 2011
Hosted by SSG Dallas, we enjoyed the hospitality of Russ Pharr and Andy Borman, who even lent us gear and weapons.  While the focus of the weekend was Abrazare (grappling) let by Patrik Olterman (SSG Malm¶) and Colin Hatcher (SSG San Francisco), SSG Boston shared our new drills (la Danza, warmups) and ideas (azza, consistent footwork) with a wonderfully receptive audience.  The tournament was particularly fun--look for the videos!

BOSTON SWORDPLAY GATHERINGS at SSG BOSTON
April 29th, 2012
February 21st, 2010
December 13th, 2009
August 23rd, 2009
May 31st, 2009
Some of the only periodic cross-group practices in the country!  Thanks to our friends at Forte Swordplay & Academy of Knightly Arts for coming together to plan these.

2010 SSG SYMPOSIUM
May 30th/31th, 2010
Bryan Johnson and the Atlanta study group hosted this event this year, and SSG Boston hoisted our flag at the other end of the East Coast.  Wonderful classes, tournament, free-sparring, and seeing old friends again!

Poleaxe Workshop
February 20th, 2010
Brian Price came up to work on poleaxe with a small group of SSG Boston and Academy of Knightly Arts.  Only one broken poleaxe, though lots of tired players by the end of the day.  The inevitable daga contra azza was followed by dinner at Charles & Deb's.  More fun than you can shake a poleaxe at!

2009 SSG EAST COAST GET TOGETHER
May 30th/31th, 2009
This was one of our best Get Togethers yet!  We were honored by the presence of Brian Price, Colin Hatcher, Frank Petrino (and others of SSG New Jersey), and Patrik Olterman even crossed the pond to join the festivities!  We studied daga and abrazzare, azza, practice cutting, had testing and a special set of classes for our youth members and even hosted the latest regional open sparring block.

WEEKEND STUDY & PROGRESS TESTING
April 4th & 5th, 2009
Frank Petrino, the East Coast Technical Director, came (again) to do some Compagno-level testing.  We also made videos, played with the lanza, and (as always) swapped ideas and planning for the East Coast SSG.  Sunday included a block of regional open sparring at Forte Swordplay.

WEEKEND STUDY & PROGRESS TESTING
February 21st & 22nd, 2009
Frank Petrino, the East Coast Technical Director, came out to do some Compagno-level testing of our afterschool group.  The rest of the casual weekend was spent swapping ideas, exercises, planning for the East Coast SSG and giving our Scholari Minore a chance to practice teaching some ideas they're exploring.  Also included a block of open sparring with Academy of Knightly Arts and Forte Swordplay.

BOSKONE TOURNAMENT/DEMO
February 14th, 2009
At the kind invitation of Kunstbrueder (Forte Swordplay) and the Higgins Sword Guild, Noah, Deborah and I played in an invitational tournament at Boskone, a local science fiction convention.  Before the tournament, I demonstrated some Daga Contra Spada, and we had a lot of fun!

2008 EAST COAST GET TOGETHER
May 3, 2008 - May 4, 2008
We hosted a gathering of local Western Martial Arts groups, including Forte Swordplay, Kunstbruder and Academy of Knightly Arts. There was also free sparring and prizes for Charles's Pas D'Armes on Saturday night. Brian Price came out (and stayed for an additional half-day) to conduct SSG-specific testing and training.

ABRAZZARE E DAGA SEMINAR with Colin Hatcher
Feb. 23, 2008 - Feb. 24, 2008
Colin's acclaimed course began with the cinque prese, falling safely, and applying locks, then tactics, drills and plays drawn from the First and Third Daga Remedy Masters. There was also open sparring on Saturday night and rank testing by Colin.

2007 EAST COAST GET TOGETHER
June 30, 2007 - July 1, 2007
Schola Saint George - New Jersey came up for a day and a half to train with us. Each group taught a class presenting ideas and what we'd been working on, and we filled in the time with practice cutting, sparring with spada (sword) and lanza (spear), and talking over a barbeque.

FIRST MASTERS OF BATTLE SEMINAR with Brian Price
Feb. 24, 2007 - Feb. 25, 2007
Brian came out to put us all on track with an overview of the first two curriculum levels. Ably assisted by Frank Petrino, we kicked our evening study group off right with new drills, games, theory and practices, and corrected the training of our afternoon group.


RECENT PROMOTIONS

(10/5) Congratulations to Jasen Boyle, Sean Delaney, and Daniel Barron on becoming Scolari!  Vivant!  Jasen has also been made as Istruttore for the Schola as well.  Vivat!

(8/18) Congratulations to David, recognised as a Primo Scholaro in the Schola!

(12/17)  Congratulations to Karna Krishna on his successful Compagnotest!

EQUIPMENT
Novice Course: To start: comfortable clothes & flat shoes. Eventually you'll need gloves and men need groin protection (cup). Other equipment can usually be lent.


Active SSG Boston-Area Denizens
Matthew Adams -- Scolaro Minore
Deborah Barolsky -- Scolara
Daniel Barron -- Scolaro
Jasen Boyle -- Scolaro
Charles Deily -- Scolaro Libero
Sean Delaney -- Scolaro
Nick DePasquale -- Zugadore
Mike Geruso -- Zugadore
Noah Goldman -- Scolaro Maggiore
Jarkko Hietaniemi -- Scolaro
Dave Knight -- Primo Scholaro
Karna Krishna -- Compagno
Nelly -- Zugadore
Pablo -- Zugadore
JL -- Zugadore
John Tuma -- Zugadore
Ethan Wilson -- Zugadore

SSG Boston- Honorable Past Members
Steve Lewis -- Scolaro Minore

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