Cameron Paine
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Principles of the Highland Broadsword
Like all battlefield weapons, broadsword is designed to be useful in chaotic close melee combat. Other fighters (active or fallen) and terrain may mean that you don’t always have the ability to move to where you would like so you can be out of measure.
We will cover how to safely gain and operate within measure and examine why this works and what it means for you and your opponent.
Pleasingly this will also provide a route for integrating some of the unarmed techniques covered in our last session in Malta. Which is nice.
Biography
Cameron Paine practiced various martial arts in the years before joining the Sussex Sword Academy (SSA). Initially studying rapier under Andrew Feest and Duncan Fatz, he fell in love with the Highland Broadsword which he studied under the SSA’s Master at Arms Lyell Drummond.
Having become an instructor in his primary weapon Cameron began to feel the urge to explore other disciplines once again, and used the principles and governors he had learned from fencing to develop an unarmed system for the SSA. Using his same relentless methodology, many are the students who have found themselves on the floor only to hear “Now this is where the good stuff starts”.
Cameron hates talking and writing about himself, especially in the third person, but he does love talking about fencing and fighting, the art and science of fencing and fighting and the ‘truth’ of fencing and fighting. So clearly he’s a scintillating conversationalist.
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