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 Monday November 16th 2009

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The Fight School

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SHÔGUN display a scene from CONTACT
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. For more details and a full description of the kit on show click the image above to go to the SHÔGUN page. A picture taken on 18th May 2003 during Battle Practise #5 the 45th weekend event in the CONTACT! role playing and "airsoft" campaign, wherein a four person Team disarm an Enemy Prisoner of War. For more information click the image above to go to the "CONTACT!" page.

SHOGUN, the winner of the 2005 Best re-enactment group in the 16th-18th century catogory at Military Odyssey 2005

"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 28 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 were in a position to actively recruit for SHÔGUN, and to this end we put on our first ever full scale 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.


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Photograph ©Mary Gentle 2007
The Fight School
4 Yarmouth Road
STEVENAGE
Hertfordshire
SG1 2LW
United Kingdom
Telephone:
01438-368177

CONTENTS

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The WFS Page Click here to find out about Wayland Fight System training courses and practise sessions. September
4th 2009
The Full
2009 - 2011
Diary
Details of what's on and where, from now until the end of 2009. Plus any entries for 2010-11. September
4th 2009
2009-11
Quick Ref Diary
A severely abridged version of the diary page, suitable for printing out on a single piece of paper. September
4th 2009
Rules & Regulations Pages Click here to see the rules and regulations that govern ALL School activities, including game mechanics for both SHOGUN & CONTACT. September
4th 2009
SHÔGUN
1543-1640
Historical re-enactment displays and private live role playing weekend events in which east meets west in late sixteenth and early seventeenth century Japan. September
4th 2009
Get Japanese
On Your Computer
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. September
18th 2007
"CONTACT!" The "Stargate" inspired airsoft combat campaign weekends November
16th 2009

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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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