Scatha Combat Guild offers a true mixed martial arts program through our Box-Wrestle-Fence vision. Our multi-level approach emphasizes quality, quantity, and depth of learning. The guild’s curriculum covers practical, real-life defence techniques as well as fun, flashy maneuvers with the almost incidental side benefit of excellent fitness training. We want you, our students, to experience the joy of mastering a physical skill, the exhilaration of perfectly executing a complex technique, and the camaraderie that comes from friendly competition. So here’s what you’ll learn, if you come and hang out with us:
Box
Scatha Combat Guild’s boxing is a hybrid style of strikes using fists, knees, elbows, and feet, based in the Victorian era of martial arts. The boxing-centric 5×5 training drill is long-term self defence training, conditioning reflexive responses to several types of attacks.
Beginner classes focus on building a foundation for these techniques – stances, footwork, and simple strikes. Intermediate boxing classes cover more advanced techniques and complex attacks and defenses. Boxing at the advanced level is mainly full speed, full contact sparring.
Wrestle
Scatha Combat Guild’s wrestling curriculum draws on medieval wrestling techniques, early military applications, and modern sport wrestling. It is a large body of technical knowledge built up from simple foundation techniques that require incredible physical fitness, confidence, toughness and tenacity to excel at.
Beginner classes focus on building a foundation for these techniques – stances, footwork, and simple holds. Intermediate wrestling classes cover more advanced techniques and complex attacks and defenses. Advanced level classes are mainly full speed, full contact wrestling bouts.
Fence
Fencing has a martial pedigree of over 800 years of refinement of weapons and fighting techniques. Scatha Combat Guild’s fencing curriculum is kind of a highlight reel of the manuals written in each major era of the sword. Fencing is the ultimate martial art – it combines the speed of boxing with the strength of wrestling, plus a level of technical difficulty that surpasses them both.
We don’t just teach swords, though. Under fencing we include any kind of weapon work: knives, sticks, canes, staffs. Anything you can hold in your hand to hit people with.
Beginner classes focus on building a foundation for these techniques – stances and footwork, while introducing the handling of longsword, knife, and singlestick. Intermediate fencing classes cover more advanced techniques and complex attacks and defenses for the knife and longsword, as well as an introduction to sabre. Fencing at the advanced level is full speed, full contact, fully armoured bouts with all weapons, plus advanced sabre techniques and use of the rapier.
Warning: This isn’t 7 Minute Abs. You won’t look like some impossibly photoshopped model in 30 days or less. It will be work, and it may take months, or years. You’ll be sore and probably bruised. But sooner or later, you’ll be less sore, and less bruised. Your body will start to do what you tell it to and, even better, you’ll know exactly what to tell it. You will be faster, stronger, more self-aware, and aware of your surroundings. You’ll stand up straight, and move through the world with confidence. And that’s real.
Scatha Combat Guild offers a true mixed martial arts program through our Box-Wrestle-Fence vision. Our multi-level approach emphasizes quality, quantity, and depth of learning. The guild’s curriculum covers practical, real-life defence techniques as well as fun, flashy maneuvers with the almost incidental side benefit of excellent fitness training. We want you, our students, to experience the joy of mastering a physical skill, the exhilaration of perfectly executing a complex technique, and the camaraderie that comes from friendly competition. So here’s what you’ll learn, if you come and hang out with us:
Box
Scatha Combat Guild’s boxing is a hybrid style of strikes using fists, knees, elbows, and feet, based in the Victorian era of martial arts. The boxing-centric 5×5 training drill is long-term self defence training, conditioning reflexive responses to several types of attacks.
Beginner classes focus on building a foundation for these techniques – stances, footwork, and simple strikes. Intermediate boxing classes cover more advanced techniques and complex attacks and defenses. Boxing at the advanced level is mainly full speed, full contact sparring.
Wrestle
Scatha Combat Guild’s wrestling curriculum draws on medieval wrestling techniques, early military applications, and modern sport wrestling. It is a large body of technical knowledge built up from simple foundation techniques that require incredible physical fitness, confidence, toughness and tenacity to excel at.
Beginner classes focus on building a foundation for these techniques – stances, footwork, and simple holds. Intermediate wrestling classes cover more advanced techniques and complex attacks and defenses. Advanced level classes are mainly full speed, full contact wrestling bouts.
Fence
Fencing has a martial pedigree of over 800 years of refinement of weapons and fighting techniques. Scatha Combat Guild’s fencing curriculum is kind of a highlight reel of the manuals written in each major era of the sword. Fencing is the ultimate martial art – it combines the speed of boxing with the strength of wrestling, plus a level of technical difficulty that surpasses them both.
We don’t just teach swords, though. Under fencing we include any kind of weapon work: knives, sticks, canes, staffs. Anything you can hold in your hand to hit people with.
Beginner classes focus on building a foundation for these techniques – stances and footwork, while introducing the handling of longsword, knife, and singlestick. Intermediate fencing classes cover more advanced techniques and complex attacks and defenses for the knife and longsword, as well as an introduction to sabre. Fencing at the advanced level is full speed, full contact, fully armoured bouts with all weapons, plus advanced sabre techniques and use of the rapier.
Warning: This isn’t 7 Minute Abs. You won’t look like some impossibly photoshopped model in 30 days or less. It will be work, and it may take months, or years. You’ll be sore and probably bruised. But sooner or later, you’ll be less sore, and less bruised. Your body will start to do what you tell it to and, even better, you’ll know exactly what to tell it. You will be faster, stronger, more self-aware, and aware of your surroundings. You’ll stand up straight, and move through the world with confidence. And that’s real.