The home of WFS sword play training, samurai historical re-enactment, and Stargate inspired airsoft live role playing campaigns
This site was last updated on
Sunday July 13th 2008
The Fight School
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Three warriors and a game of "GO". A nice picture of a recruiting display for SHÔGUN our SAMURAI live role playing/re-enactment events at the Will Adams Festival in Gillingham, Kent in September 2004. Left to right: Simon Anderson, Andrew Mellor and Dean Wayland. For more details and a full description of the kit on show click the image above to go to the SHÔGUN page.
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A scene from an "episode" of "CONTACT!", our role playing "airsoft" campaign, wherein Captain Morticia Morgenstern played by Ashley Rachel Pollard, the mission commander, finds a critical scientific clue on VXC213A/G1548, an alien world whose biosphere had been utterly destroyed during 2003. NB: "Morgenstern" was declared MIA on 11/26/2004 during "Operation Hedingham", when the entire team failed to return from their mission. It's dangerous out there people...
For more information click the image above to go to the "CONTACT!" page.
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"Welcome"
Welcome to the pages of The Fight School, a not-for-profit organisation providing training and weekend live role-playing adventure and re-enactment events for people over the age of eighteen. Please come in and have a look around and be entertained. The School was founded in January of 1991 originally purely as a school of swordsmanship, promoting and teaching the Wayland Fight System. The WFS began its development in 1981 and is now a fully fledged competitive combat sport for use with historically accurate reproduction swords of war in battle re-enactments and live role playing events. We would like to offer you our training and/or if you wish, an opportunity to participate in our various activities which we offer to anyone who is prepared to make the effort, fight safely and play fair.
Seeing as the WFS was designed for use in steel weapons live role playing and battle re-enactment activities, in which the founder currently has over 26 years of experience, it was natural that eventually we would begin running our own events. "SHÔGUN" began in 1994 and is a historical re-enactment/live role playing campaign, set against the background of late sixteenth and early seventeenth century Japan when the Europeans made their first appearance in that country. Finally after 11 years of research, we are now in a position to actively recruit for SHÔGUN, and to this end we put on our first ever re-enactment display at the 2005 Military Odyssey show, where we won the cup and certificate for the best group in the 16th-18th century period (see above).
Our other campaign, CONTACT is somewhat different, arising out of a series of happy accidents in 1996, that led to our "Stargate" inspired live role playing airsoft campaign, which is run from deep within a unique museum - a former cold war nuclear bunker.
This web site is continuosly expanding and carries all the necessary information for both members and those interested or merely curious about The Fight School and its activities. Below you will find a Contents list with links to the various core pages within the site. If you would like to get involved, or you simply require more information please contact me, Dean Wayland, by either phone or snailmail as detailed below, or via email by clicking my picture. Meanwhile feel free to explore the School's web site and we hope you find it informative and fun.
EMAIL
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to send Dean an email
Photograph ©Mary Gentle 2007
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The Fight School
4 Yarmouth Road
STEVENAGE
Hertfordshire
SG1 2LW
United Kingdom
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Telephone:
01438-368177
Mobile:
07771-661816
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Wherever you find the School's crossed swords logo it will act as a "Home" link bringing you back to this page.
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Near the top left of each page, the date that it's contents were last updated will be shown.
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The date shown under the heading Updated in a links table, refers to either that page itself, or to one accessible only via another links table on that particular page. Sometimes the entry may, rather than the date be either N/A for "not applicable", TBA meaning 'to be added', or See Site for links that take you to pages off the School's website.
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Please note that the links that take you off this site are provided purely for your convenience, and that we cannot take ANY responsibility for their contents, nor can their inclusion be considered as a recommendation.
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Description
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Updated
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The WFS Page
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click here to find out about Wayland Fight System training courses and practise sessions.
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June
12th 2008
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The Full
2008-9
Diary
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Details of what's on and where, from now until the end of 2009.
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June
12th 2008
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2008-2009
Quick Ref Diary
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A severely abridge version of the diary page, suitable for printing out on a single piece of paper.
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June
12th 2008
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Rules & Regulations Pages
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click here to see the rules and regulations that govern ALL School activities, including game mechanics for both SHOGUN & CONTACT.
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May 19th 2008
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SHÔGUN
1543-1640
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historical re-enactment displays and private live role playing weekend events in which east meets west in late sixteenth and early seventeenth century Japan.
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June
12th 2008
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Get Japanese
On Your Computer
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This page tells you how to get your computer to read and write Japanese scripts, which if you are interested in SHÔGUN will make things much more fun as time goes by.
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September 18th
2007
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"CONTACT!"
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the "Stargate" inspired airsoft combat campaign weekends
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July
13th 2008
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As of September 30th 2007 The Fight School is a registered airsoft site with the United Kingdom Airsoft Retailer's Association, which means that our members are able to comply with the Violent Crime Reduction Act 2006 (VCRA), which came in to effect on October 1st 2007.
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