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Rapier (Capo Ferro) basic training:
== Rapier (Capo Ferro) basic training: ==
Basic knowledge of Capo Ferro rapier style:
Guards 1-4
Step back and forward in guard
Lunge
Pass forwards and back
Scanso dell’ pie dritto
Scanso della vita
Lunging drills:
1: lunge remise lunge etc.
2: step, lunge, pass lunge (both directions)
3: in 2, 4, stramazone, mandritto, cross-jump.


Stringere
[[Map of Rapier syllabus]]
4 responses to the stringering: attack by cavazione, beat attack by cavazione, feint by cavazione, direct attack.
Parry riposte in 2 and 4
Compound counter riposte drill to step 5
Parry-riposte in a single motion in 2 and 4
Distance drills:
Distance drill
Patient Agent
Terza Terza
Find opposition, lunge in quarta
Parry riposte
Step back, with opposition
Recover forwards (remise)
Cavazione, lunge in seconda
repeat


Plays of plates 7,13,16,17,19
[[Rapier Syllabus]]
Scannatura
Scanso della vita
Scanso dell’ pie dritto


[[Compound counter-riposte drill.]]
== Solo exercises ==
 
*[[Solo drill: Grip, guard position, disengages, lunge:]]
 
*[[Footwork drills]]
 
*[[Striking drills]]
 
*[[The Rapier Footwork Form]]
 
 
== Pair drills ==
 
*[[Pair drills]]
 
*[[Specific Plays from Capoferro]]
 
*[[Compound counter-riposte drill.]]
 
*[[Disengage, Counterdisengage, Redisengage]]
 
 
== The Plays from the Plates ==
 
We will video the entire book plate by plate and play by play. The purpose of the drills is to enable us to perform the plays. The purpose of the plays is to enable us to kill our opponent in a duel. See here: [[Specific Plays from Capoferro]]
 
 
== Rapier (Capo Ferro) intermediate training: ==




Rapier (Capo Ferro) intermediate training:
CCR drill to step 10
CCR drill to step 10
Fabris: counter-guards
Fabris: counter-guards
Toccata
Toccata
Adding degrees of freedom to the previous drills
Adding degrees of freedom to the previous drills
Sword alone freeplay
Sword alone freeplay
Rapier and dagger drills:
 
*[[Rapier and dagger drills]]
 
4 dagger parries
4 dagger parries
Stringer-parry-strike
Stringer-parry-strike
Feint, parry, strike
Feint, parry, strike
Sword and dagger X parry drill.
Sword and dagger X parry drill.
All drills done as distance drills (see above for basic pattern)
All drills done as distance drills (see above for basic pattern)
Sword and dagger freeplay
Sword and dagger freeplay
== Seminar footage ==
*A sample seminar, covering some basic techniques and practice:
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*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.
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*Part 2: includes stringering games, plays of plates 7, 10, 13, 16, 17.
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[[Category:Syllabi]]
[[Category:Syllabi]]
[[Category:Rapier]]

Latest revision as of 11:40, 9 September 2020

Rapier (Capo Ferro) basic training:

Map of Rapier syllabus

Rapier Syllabus

Solo exercises


Pair drills


The Plays from the Plates

We will video the entire book plate by plate and play by play. The purpose of the drills is to enable us to perform the plays. The purpose of the plays is to enable us to kill our opponent in a duel. See here: Specific Plays from Capoferro


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

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


Seminar footage

  • 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.