This swordfighting school promises you your personal ‘Game Of Thrones’

Fick (centre), founder of the Davenriche European Martial Arts School, training Doherty (left) and Connor Nef in San Jose, California, recently. Photo: Karl Mondon/Bay Area News Group/TNS

It is 1pm on a recent Thursday in San Jose, California, and Steaphen Fick is intently watching two grown men swing unsharpened steel swords at each other.

One of them is apparently not striking the other with enough force. Fick interrupts.