Fiore basic syllabus

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Solo exercises

  • The guard positions
  • Three turns: volta stabile, meza volta, tutta volta
  • Four steps: passare, tomare, accressere, dicressere
  • Four unarmed poste: longa, dente de zenghiaro, frontale, porta di ferro
  • The footwork combinations: 1) accressere fora di strada, passare alla traversa, 2) accressere, 3 passi, with tutta volta.
  • Testing the guards using pressure; grounding exercise.
  • Stick avoidance drill
  • Basic falling

Dagger

  • 4 lines of attack: mandritto, fendente, roverso, sotto.
  • The 5 things: disarm, strike, lock, break, takedown

Remedies

  • First remedy master (against mandritto or fendente)
  • Third remedy master (against roverso or fendente)
  • Ninth remedy master (against sotto)

Longsword

  • The salute

Guard positions

  • tutta porta di ferro,
  • posta di donna,
  • posta longa,
  • posta frontale,
  • posta di dente di zenghiaro,

Blows

  • mandritto fendente
  • roverso fendente
  • mandritto sottano
  • roverso sottano
  • mandritto mezano
  • roverso mezano
  • punta

Drills

  • Standing cutting drill: first half : 6 blows in total

Remedies (defences)

  • rebattere with true edge from tutta porta di ferro
  • rebattere with false edge from dente de zenghiaro.
  • Counter-remedy: turn to the other side, pommel strike.