How to Improve Your Rapier Feints Without a Partner
Feints are a challenging & difficult aspect of rapier. Here's how you can improve the technical side of your feints without a training partner.
Regarding the Basics of Measure in Rapier & Approaching from Out of Measure
Measure is a foundational principle of the Italian fencing system. Here's an overview of Misura, plus approaching from Out of Measure.
Approaching the Four Temperaments of a Fencer
According to the late-Renaissance Italian fencing masters, there are four temperaments of rapier fencers. Here's how to defeat each.
Alfieri Part 2, Chapter XII: On Wounding a Furious and Resolute Opponent
Today we’ll be looking at the plays in Plate 12 of La Scherma by Francesco [...]
Alfieri Part 2, Chapter XI: How to Wound the Enemy While He Tries to Attack with a Mandritto or Riverso to the Legs
Today we’ll be looking at the plays in Plate 11 of La Scherma by Francesco [...]
Alfieri Part 2, Chapter X: On Wounding the Enemy with a Thrust in Quarta, From a Firm Foot, While He Attempts to Cut
Today we’ll be looking at the plays in Plate 10 of La Scherma by Francesco [...]
Alfieri Part 2, Chapter IX: On Wounding to the Outside Under the Sword, Passing with the Left Foot
Today we’ll be looking at the plays in Plate 9 of La Scherma by Francesco [...]
Alfieri Part 2, Chapter VIII: On Wounding on the Outside Over the Sword, Passing with the Left Foot
Today we’ll be looking at the plays in Plate 8 of La Schermaby Francesco [...]
Alfieri Part 2, Chapter VII: On Wounding in Seconda From a Firm Foot (Plate 7)
Today we’ll be looking at the plays in Plate 7 of La Scherma [...]
Alfieri Part 2, Chapter VI: On Wounding in Quarta From a Firm Foot (Plate 6)
Been a while since I’ve updated this. I’ve put Capoferro on hold [...]
In which the author becomes art
This is pretty awesome. Don Malocchio needed to practice using a new [...]
Caliver vs. Cavalier: What’s the Dif?
In the SCA I have a French cavalier persona. I also started [...]