Week 12: Accordion – prep steps, fakes, and finishes
March 7, 2023
I learned to lunge by kicking a coin across the floor of a school hall. … More Week 12: Accordion – prep steps, fakes, and finishes
Week 11: Watching in the 4m Zone
March 7, 2023
It was like he felt that everything that made sabre good and beautiful and noble was done a hundred years ago, the decades since a saga of decay and decline. … More Week 11: Watching in the 4m Zone
Week 41: Archetypes in Sabre
February 9, 2023
Dear Instructor: Welcome to Week 41, the beginning of Level 5. Up to this stage, we have taken your students through a large number of moves and countermoves, and their underlying mechanisms, as a single large moveset with complementary tactics within a single style. We have probably mentioned to them that this is not how … More Week 41: Archetypes in Sabre
Week 10: The Tactical Wheel
January 26, 2023
Dear Instructor: Welcome to Week 10. This is the last session for Level 1; we typically use these end-of-Level sessions to revise everything we have done in the Level and prepare your students for the Level 1 grading. The organising structure for this session is the concept of the Tactical Wheel. Tactics can be organised … More Week 10: The Tactical Wheel
Week 7: Counterattack
January 25, 2023
Dear Instructor: Welcome to Week 7. This session covers the most conceptually simple but technically challenging move in Level 1: the Counterattack. Counterattacks are all moves by the Defender, without priority, to hit the Attacker without the Defender being hit, as per Rule 1 of Sabre. We classify counterattacks into two groups: Counterattacks complete the … More Week 7: Counterattack