German long-sword exponent Jim Edmonds tutors Nikita Stevenson at a workshop held as part of the Dunedin Public Art Gallery's Medieval Midwinter Festival. Photo by Jane Dawber.
A sword-handling workshop held on Saturday as part of the Dunedin Public Art Gallery's Medieval Midwinter Festival, organised in conjunction with the Dunedin Medieval Society.
The event's focus this year was the history of the sword and it featured workshops which demonstrated a variety of period fighting styles.
Mr Edmond's medieval workshop was attended by about 25 people, who watched as the long-sword practitioner took a group of five students through fighting and combat-duelling techniques.
Workshops showing the Western and Eastern methods of sword-fighting, which included the Italian renaissance rapier, the 16th-century Japanese Seishinkan style and the Kendo discipline, were also part of the festival.
