Rapier Sessions On-Demand

The mindsets of approaching and receiving.

Offhand (and cloak) to the rescue! A great tool to add some diversity to your game.

This month’s curriculum allows us to explore being the fencer who sits and waits, setting a trap and letting the opponent come to them. Playing the receiving game is so much fun but you have to be diligent because if you fall asleep you may regret it. We'll also continue working through Capoferro plates from Tom Leoni's translation. Full disclosure, sometimes we get side-tracked in class so apologies if the video turns out a little different than expected. If you do have any questions regarding content that we missed or even content that we covered, shoot me a message and I’ll try my best to address it, either in the discussion forum or even better in the next week’s class.

Cuts, beats...these are are cutting actions we will be exploring in this month's rapier curriculum.

Bringing the fight to your opponent...safely.

Interpreting rapier and offhand plays

Taking inspiration from Masters of old.

Cutting is not an action we associate with rapier fencing, yet we see it documented in numerous 17^th century texts. This month we’ll be exploring cutting actions, including half-cuts and beats. We’ll also look at how we can use cutting to facilitate stringere. Learning how to cut with a rapier, especially looking at the body mechanics, is hard, so we will be using some of dall’Agocchie’s forms work on body mechanics to then apply to rapier.

Taking the fight to your opponent...safely.

Offhand to the rescue! A great tool to add some diversity to your game.

"Come at me yo!"