July 6, 2025 Melee Practice - Ponte Alto

This was a  make-up Northern Regional armored melee practice that had been previousl cancelled for weather. We had about 6 on 6 at any given time and here's what we did:

• Single death open field - We ran this 5x practicing "dead on the ground" which is the experimental rule that will be in play during the Pennsic Friday field battles.

• 3-4 minute unlimited resurrection "woods" (more like "tree") battle, ran 2x. The victory condition was to control the center banner at the time check somewhere between 3 and 4 minutes, but the main goal was to work on heat and humidity conditioning and stamina.

• 2-3 minute unlimited resurrection "bridge" (more like path) battle, ran 2x. Same "control the center victory condition" (similar to Pennsic), working on timed charges and also heat/humidity stamina.

• Back to single death open field battles - We ran 2 sets of 3 bouts each (6 total). Sides worked on flanking and also implementing "death on the ground."

• Then regular singles practice.