Master Turk on the left
Master Wolfe on the right
Master Turk on the left
Master Wolfe on the right
Master Turk & his lovely assistant Wolfe in the parade
My daughter and I had a great time at the sword school. Don't have any pictures of the sword school in action, because I was too busy participating. The sword school is interactive. Which means, you get up on the chessboard stage and use the moves that Master Turk shows you. When we got up there on the first day and started swinging the practice sticks at each other, we were hooked. It wasn't a day at the faire until we got our SS fix.
My daughter Britny posing with the instructors.
Sorry about the quality of the pictures above, the film got
over-exposed (long story). This is from the Boons & Favors on
the 5th Saturday. Highland Games were going on on the chessboard
stage, so Masters Turk and Wolfe had a lot of free time on their
hands. So Master Turk asked the favor of being allowed to sit
next to the king while his lovely assistant sat on the kings lap.
This picture is from the following Sunday. The two master
swordsmen were pressed into duty protecting the royal family.
Actually, I think it was a means to keep an eye on the 2 of them
and keep them from causing more mischief.
Well, they might of
found a way to get them to behave for the rest of that weekend,
but final weekend was a totally different story. During
"Boons & Favors" on the last Saturday, Master Turk
struck again.
He approached the king and called for his lovely assistant's help
Then he suggested that the king and his court would be well served to learn how to defend themselves if pirates attacked.
With Wolfe's help, he proceeded to show the king how to turn to the left, block a punch with the left arm, knee the attacker in the groin, then kick them in the groin.
Then he showed them how to turn to the right and do the same.
Then he had them repeat these procedures,
speeding up the cadence until it looked like they were all doing
a
CHORUS LINE !!
Of course at that point, Master Turk changed his count into a little ditty to really get the point across.
I don't have any contact information for Master Steve Turk yet, but I hope to rectify that soon.