Rapier

Rapier (Capo Ferro) basic training:

Map of Rapier syllabus

Solo drill: Grip, guard position, disengages, lunge:

• Footwork drills

• Pair drills

A sample seminar, covering some basic techniques and practice:

Part One Rapier seminar held on March 31st 2012. This is the morning session of a full day seminar. It includes structural/grounding practice, footwork, basic actions and the plays of plates 7 and 16.

Part 2: includes stringering games, plays of plates 7, 10, 13, 16, 17.

Part 2:

Rapier (Capo Ferro) intermediate training:

CCR drill to step 10

Fabris: counter-guards

Toccata

Adding degrees of freedom to the previous drills

Sword alone freeplay

Rapier and dagger drills:

4 dagger parries

Stringer-parry-strike

Feint, parry, strike

Sword and dagger X parry drill.

All drills done as distance drills (see above for basic pattern)

Sword and dagger freeplay