This is the other lesson we did on today. There were 4 of us there, two right handers and two left handers. (since we’d done a lesson earlier, and it was really hot, we skipped some of the simple attacks) From the instructor’s invitation in 3rd, straight thrust From the student’s engagement in 3rd, time […]
This is a lesson we did today with a left handed student who normally does Italian foil and saber with us. It’s pretty similar to the earlier one I posted earlier, but has some added stuff thrown in as well. This was his second time doing rapier, and possibly only his first real lesson. The […]
Lesson from last Sunday (edited the ordering a bit to clean things up): From the invitation in 3rd, straight thrustFrom the engagement in 3rd, glideFrom the engagement in 3rd, disengagementFrom the engagement in 4th, parry 3rd, riposte by glide (yes, I did start off in the wrong line and had to change things up to […]
These are some interpretations of a couple of the plates done with a perspective of a left hander. This is all conjecture, but I think it makes a reasonable amount of sense. The main plates I’m looking at are the first parts of plates 7 and 9. The actions would probably need to change even […]
This is a lesson I did a few weeks ago.  The goal was to cover the techniques covered in the basic plays of the first half of the single sword plates in Capoferro.  (I’m writing this from memory, so there may be some inaccuracies) From the instructor’s invitation in 4th, straight thrust From the student’s engagement […]
So I’ve been thinking about using livejournal to post some of the lessons I’ve been working on for rapier. The majority of the lesson I’ll be posting are based on Capoferro, and generally follow the rough structure and organization of a Classical Italian lesson. The lessons represent the interpretive work that my friends and I are […]
