This is a lesson that I did with a friend today in practice. The goal of the lesson was to give him a brief (well sort of) overview of some of the rapier and dagger work that Dori and I have been working on lately. In general I’m fairly happy with the terminology that we […]
At practice today, I taught a lesson based roughly off of plate 8 of Capoferro. I did this left handed, so there are a couple of differences from the actual text. Here’s what we did. From the instructor’s invitation in 4th, straight thrust. From the instructor’s engagement in 4th, disengagement. From the student’s engagement in […]
In yesterday’s lesson, my goal was to cover as many of the variations of the actions described in plate 7 of Capoferro as I could. We took some video of the lesson so that we could post it and show our interpretations of this material and talk a little bit about how we understand the […]
This is a lesson that I did with Dori at practice today. The goal was to build a lesson based on plate 7 that encompassed all of the variations that are described in the plate. I taught this lesson right handed. From the instructor’s invitation in 4th, straight thrust. In time, as the instructor changes […]
This is a lesson that I gave today to a new fencer who has been coming to our practice. This was his second rapier lesson. I taught the lesson right handed. The lesson was kind of a condensed version of the one I did with Dori today based off of Capoferro plate 7. From the […]
