Last week I had the honor of presenting to the MSS Terra Nova School of Swords as part of their online workshops while their school is shutdown for the recent omicron surge. My topic was tactics for defeating opponent’s who aren’t your own size — as based on advices from Alfieri & Fabris (and with my own modern-sport thoughts thrown in).

This is a bit of a continuation of previous discussions I’ve done online and at IGX the past couple years where I covered the 4 Temperaments of Fencers.

In this presentation, we go over the advantages and disadvantages, and tactics for defeating:

• A Taller Fencer
• A Shorter Fencer
• A Stronger Fencer
• A Weaker Fencer

At the end of that, we took the the general ideas covered to come up with our own tactics for defeating a Faster opponent (a type of fencer not covered by the Italian masters as it’s more of a modern HEMA-sport issue).

Thanks to Phil for having me part of this series!

You can view the slides here.

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