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Rapier & Dagger Intensive; New Sidesword Playlist

Greg Reimer February 27, 2018

30-hour Italian Rapier & Dagger Intensive

April 21-23 in Vancouver, Canada | Register here.

This 3-day weekend is a rare opportunity to immerse yourself in this discipline, learn and explore our full system, and make significant improvement in your level of proficiency and effectiveness with the rapier and dagger. Over the course of three 10-hour days you will cover:

  • Use of ‘closed’ and ‘open’ guard positions that minimize targets and speed up decision making
  • Use of the sword and dagger combined to constrain, control, and put your opponent into obedience
  • Dagger strikes and disarms
  • Methods for countering the covers of the rapier and dagger
  • Topics from a teaching and learning perspective

Pre-requisite: Confident understanding of Italian rapier (sword alone), including foundational postures, movements and line control.

Registration is now open. To sign-up and learn more about this program and our other level 2 intensives click here.

New Sidesword Playlist: Approaching Gioco Largo

Six new lessons for sidesword and buckler are now available in the Video Library. Approaching Gioco Largo will take you forward to the opponent, starting from out of measure all the way to the final strike. Along the way you’ll learn how to attack with safety and in a way that will put your opponent at constant disadvantage, regardless of the guard they take or move to.

Once the sword come into contact, bind pressure plays an important role in assessing control and critical decision making. Finally, you’ll learn how to stringer (constrain) your opponent into decisions that are predictable, responding to them in a way that always keeps you ahead of the game.

Check out the related Longsword playlist for more instruction on approaching an opponent who holds their point away from you. Enjoy your training!

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Special Advanced Information for the Longsword/Rapier Instructor Intensive

Greetings everyone. This Sunday we’ll be opening up registration for our February 15–19 instructor intensive in Vancouver. I’m really excited about this event. It’s the second one of its kind and the last one went incredibly well.

I know that many of you are interested in opportunities to train at a high level in Rapier and Longsword and that being a professional instructor is a dream shared by more than just me and those who already teach at Academie Duello. To that end I wanted to make sure to send information to all of you in advance of registration opening this Sunday (November 15 at 10:00 am). The last event filled in only two days!

About the Intensive

The intensive combines a week of training in Academie Duello’s martial system with the rapier and longsword as well as a teaching and learning methodology track. Our teaching approach has been developed over the last 11 years and has been tested and refined through exposure to literally thousands of students.

During the week we’ll give you:

  • 50-hours of technical and pedagogical instruction in the rapier and longsword (as well as surrounding disciplines).
  • The foundation for becoming a teacher of our first two martial levels.
  • Instruction in teaching and learning best practices.
  • An opportunity to test and certify in our first martial and instructor levels.
  • Enrolment in the eight-month follow-up distance education course that includes:
    • Weekly training plans, curriculum, and study guidance for you and your group.
    • Supporting video content for at-home learning.
    • Video assessments by Academie Duello instructors to prepare you for Level 2 examination.
    • Monthly online meetings with Academie Duello instructors to help guide your personal and group’s development.

Flexible Payment Options

If you’re excited about doing a program like this but are not sure that you could afford it, we offer payment plans, a discount meal plan, and billeting options in Vancouver. If you’re passionate about becoming an instructor and high level practitioner we want to help make it possible. Don’t hesitate to be in touch.

Register Early

Registration is going to open up on Sunday, November 15 at 10:00 am. Space will fill up quick so be sure to mark your calendar and visit our information page to learn more. Please ask questions and share comments about this course. Also please pass this along to anyone you know who may be interested! I’ll have more to share in a few days.

Devon Boorman
Director, Academie Duello Centre for Swordplay
Vancouver, BC

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Greg Reimer November 13, 2015

Swordplay Symposium 2020: March 6-8

We’re bringing together the martial arts traditions of countries from across the globe in the spirit of collaboration and learning. This year we have 10 intensives in 5 paired tracks each that compare a European martial tradition with an Eastern one.

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Devon Boorman January 6, 2020