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Past workshops and events include:

 

The YoungBlood London Summer Intensive 2005
July - Aug 2005
The Venue was The Academy of Live and Recorded Arts (ALRA)
A BADC certification intensive for all levels
Staff included Rachel Bown Williams, Marcello Marascalchi and Tim Klotz

Sept 2004
HANDGUNS IN PERFORMANCE
Instructor: Lloyd Caldwell
Super Squad night workshops with Fight Director and Military Combatives Expert Lloyd Caldwell.

 

 

Aug-Sept 2004
THE WOLF IS BACK
Tony Wolf: Lord of the Rings Fighting Styles Guru presents a series of UK workshops:

• Combat and Parkour
• Southhampton Weekend
• London
• Nottingham
  

A YB Intermediate/Advanced Certification Workshop
April 2004

With so many requests for Level 2/3 training we just had to set up this workshop! Our host venue for the workshop will be Arts Educational Drama School (NCDT) in leafy west London.

This ia a 10-day workshop offering the British Academy of Dramatic Combat level 2/3 actor/combatant certification. The examination will take place on the last day of the workshop, Saturday April 2004.

Elizabethan & Jacobean Works & Weapons
Guest Tutor: Mark Hillyard Oct 2004

A great introduction to this rich period of fighting, this practical class covers the origins of the rapier & backsword, as described in the historical treatises. Specifically we tackle the realities of this type of sword fight - including wounds and wounding!

We will cover:

• the continental Single Rapier (as describe by Giacomo DiGrassi) and it's length, strategy and tactics.
• and the British nemesis: the short (in Elizabethan terms) basket hilted backsword as espoused by George Silver.

Rapier and Companion Weapon - 6 November 04
1 Day Long Stage Combat Workshop with Kevin Rowntree

Brush up those duelling skills with this fantastic full day of Rapier and ... anything. A superb study of those dramatic, ‘they Duel', fights of the Reformation (late 16th early 17th Century) We explore fights with rapier and companion weapons employed including dagger, buckler, cloak ... even lantern!

This workshop explores a variety of rapier systems and their application in stage combat and may even extend into the application of text. Very useful for the jobbing Actor/combatant.

First Aid Course - Emergency Aid in Performance Combat
St John's Ambulance 3 year Certificate
Emergency Aid for Martial Arts
13,14 November 2004

YoungBlood brings you another unique opportunity to improve your skills and make yourself more hirable!

Specialist first aid is a vital addition to the action actor's C.V. This course is the only one of its type in England. The contents have been tailored for all those working in the martial arts, contact sports, all group sport environments and of course, performance combat.

Fight captains, apprentice teachers, and fight directors all work in the public arena and in close proximity to others. Wouldn't the risk assessment look better if your first aid skills were up to date? The more responsible and safe you are, the more employable you are...

Motion Capture Workshop - Sunday 7th of November 2004
What is motion capture? How does it work? What would I do?
Instructor Carrie Thiel - Mo-cap direction includes Lord of the Rings, Alexander the Great and Kingdom of Heaven.

Youngblood are very honoured to offer this exclusive. An opportunity to experience the specific demands of Motion Capture work.

This is an invaluable introduction to this increasingly popular technology. This workshop will leave you with the practical knowledge of working in this arena and will place you a head and shoulders above your peers.

Don’t be left ‘out in the cold’ as more and more filmmaker use Mocap for their visual effects.

Fiore Dei Liberi Workshop
Saturday - 5 February 2005
Historical Fencing: Dagger and two-handed sword

This workshop will focus on Fiore dei Liberi’s Dagger and 2 Handed sword techniques! Fiore dei Liberi is one of the most respected and influential practitioners of the late medieval period with his treatise ‘Flos Duellatorum’.

Taught by Rob Lovett of The Exiles, this course was an exciting and edifying event that really brought home how useful historical european martial arts can be for the actor studying stage combat. We look forward to seeing Rob and the Exiles again!

Take Action: Stunt Dancing
Weekend workshop 26+27 Febuary 2005
At the Royal Festival Hall

A dynamic fusion of stage combat and contact improv at The Royal Festival Hall on the South Bank, London. Led by Rob Tannion (of Stan Won't Dance/ DV8) and fight Director Tim Klotz.

This workshop has been requested by other institutions and may be offered again sometime in the future!

Smallsword Revisited
Stage Combat
May 2005
A fab opportunity to refresh your Georgian duelling techniques, and to learn some wicked new moves!

Tutor: Tim Klotz of YB Ltd
Venue: RADA

Longsword and Buckler
Historical Martial Arts: Medieval Sword & Buckler technique.
16 April 2005

The "Fechtbuch I.33" is an anonymous German manuscript from the 1300's. It is the earliest surviving manual of swordsmanship. Known as Manuscript I.33 it deals entirely with the use of the Medieval sword and buckler.

Guest Tutor: Dave Rawlings of Boars Tooth.
The Boars Tooth is a fight school based in Folkestone Kent. A society committed to the translation, study & practise of Medieval fighting techniques. They mainly focus on the treatises of Sigmund Ringeck with a hint of George Silver, and even delve into Ringeck wrestling techniques!

TWANG! Archery
May 2005.
With the Bromley Archery Club. SE London.