Dori and I taught a rapier and dagger class this weekend on Sebastian Heußler’s and dagger. The actual text is pretty extensive and we only looked at the first couple of plays. I find the text interesting in particular for two reasons: First, Heußler’s text is an early commentary on Capoferro and Fabris from a German perspective […]
Last night was the fourth class on rapier and dagger at the Decatur School of Arms. Our goal with the lesson was to practice some of the guards and dagger parries from Capoferro’s text. In particular, plates 26, and 28. Plate 26 demonstrates parrying with the rapier and dagger together and then making a riposte […]
Continuing the work with Kevin Maurer’s translation of Sebastian Heußler‘s text from 1615, I gave another rapier and dagger lesson last night. The first part of Heußler’s rapier and dagger section establishes progression for working with rapier and dagger. At a high level, I read it as: Simple attacks Defense against simple attacks, using a dagger parry Defense […]
Lately, I’ve been reading through Kevin Maurer’s translation of Sebastian Heußler‘s text from 1615, which is heavily influenced by Italian rapier. Here’s the lesson that I did this evening: Starting with single sword In time, as I invite in third, straight thrust (no lunge) In time, as I invite in fourth, straight thrust (no lunge) […]
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 […]
This is a lesson that I did for Dori at practice today. From the invitation in 3rd, straight thrust, closure with the dagger in low fouth From the engagement in 3rd, disengagement Same thing, but instructor parries low 4th with the dagger. After trying a couple of different options, we ended with Dori passing forward […]
Rapier and dagger lesson from this afternoon. The two of us were opposite handed. From the instructor’s invitation in low 4th, straight thrust, hand in 4th, dagger closing in 3rd. From the instructor’s invitation in 2nd, straight thrust, hand in 2nd, dagger closing in low 4th under the sword arm. From the instructor’s invitation in […]
Here’s the rapier and dagger lesson that I did with Dori today. I’m going to follow the notation that Kevin Murakoshi is using for the dagger. I’m using 4 dagger parries which correspond roughly to the four guards in the classical Italian system. 1st is to the dagger’s inside, under the arm (point high), 2nd […]
