Second half of this drill with Anezka. Same setup and actions, just with mobility thrown in to up the spice.

She’s looking to get me with a disengagement in time. Or, if I land the parry, transition to defense with her own counter-parry & riposte.

Real solid work by Anezka here.

Eli wanted to work on defending low attacks so we block drilled parry of 2nd and 1st (aka low 4th aka half-circle) and then jumped to an option drill.

From his blade seizure I’m attacking either high or low by disengagement. Eli needs to read and select the correct parry.

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Finishing up our lesson with some simple beats and attacks direct.

Once in a while I parry and riposte to keep Eli honest and so he can get some O to D transition work.

After doing some coached sparring to start the lesson, we found a few holes or actions that needed refinement, so we built it into this drill.

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Some more mounted fencing training from a little bit back.

We are also working on getting the horses acquainted with trotting at one another while the swords go *clack*.

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Working on probing actions with Wendy.

There’s a myriad of ways of doing probing actions; we focused on using feints and false attacks for this.

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