Powerful Wide Play 4: Moving into Stretto
Learning to move between the wide, flowing and powerful actions of the wide play (gioco largo) and the tight controlling acti…
Course Tag: Longsword
Powerful Wide Play 3: Entering and Deception
Wide play (gioco largo) can be a highly deceptive mode of fighting. When your blow takes a lot of time to arrive it also allo…
Powerful Wide Play 2: Mastering the Measure
Playing the wide game (gioco largo) requires that you have a keen sense of measure and the capacity to enter into your oppone…
Powerful Wide Play 1: Cutting & Footwork
Wide play (gioco largo) is a mode of fighting defined by large cutting and clearing actions designed to dominate and displace…
Longsword vs. Sword & Buckler (COM-311)
The longsword sword and buckler are two beautiful disciplines that each have a lot to share with one another. In this course …
Longsword Apprentice Bonus Sessions
Training Success Workshop
We'll bring you through the full system of Duell…
Gioco Stretto with Longsword
Gioco Stretto (the narrow play) describes a scenario where our opponent's point is an immediate threat and we must move to co…
Gioco Stretto & Grapples with Longsword
We’re picking up the longsword to explore giocco stretto or the "narrow play", a combative context where the opponent’s w…
Secondary Guards with Longsword
Posta finestra (window guard) makes use of the sword's point to quickly move forward and close off the centreline.
Primary Guards with Longsword
We will be working through all of the primary poste of the longsword looking at both how to employ their most direct actions …
Quadrant Defenses vs Mezzano, Sottano and Thrust with Longsword
Rising & Lateral: We are continuing to explore defenses from various quadrants against lines of att…
Quadrant Defenses vs Fendente with Longsword
Crossings: The sword in two hands is a powerful tool for cutting and defending against cuts. In these c…
Posta Finestra with Longsword
Cutting Intention: In this class we look at how to cut with intention and efficient mechanics from both…
Counter Cutting with Longsword
Against the Fendente: In the first class we explore the mechanics of three types of counter cuts and how the…
Collection with Longsword
Frontale Largo: In this lesson you will learn how to use posta longa to collect. We'll see how posta longa c…
Tempo & Provocation with Longsword
Primo Tempo: In these first topics we look at the opportunity to strike as an opponent steps into range and…
Precision & Intention with Longsword
Fendente: In this lesson we look at how to strike with a fendente in a way that protects the body while del…
Scholars Assault with Longsword
These plays are further developed and explored in variation, sometimes beginning left or right, sometimes adding pre- or post…
Approaching Gioco Largo with Longsword
Prerequisite: This course assumes the knowledge of the three
Prerequisite: This course assumes the knowledge of the three
Prerequisite: This course assumes the knowledge of the three
Prerequisite: This course assumes the knowledge of the three
Welcome to your guided crash course in the art of the medieval two-handed longsword. This seven-lesson course with Maestro De…
Receiving Gioco Largo with Longsword
Longsword Grappling I
Forms & Guards with Longsword
Longsword Fundamentals Certificate
This certificate requires that you have completed all of the following courses:
Longsword Quick Start
Longsword Fundamentals I: Intro, Cutting & Postures (LSW-050)
What You'll Learn
Longsword Fundamentals II: Thrusting, Blade Control & Footwork (LSW-055)
What You'll Learn
Longsword Fundamentals III: Timing, Defense & Sparring (LSW-060)
What You'll Learn
