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
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
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
From a reader: “I bought the book and I really like the information and content. There are some section I need some help understanding. Mainly on indirect attack, short arc and long arc. When you attack indirectly, is short arc part of long arc? Is it separate action choice? What does it mean indirect attack? … More Q&A: Direct, indirect, short measure, and long measure attacks
Dear Instructor: Welcome to Week 6. Your students should look authentic now: able to fight effectively and adapt to their opponent in the 4m zone, on the March, and on Defence, with textbook techniques for parries, disengages and sweeps. This class continues our exploration of moves and countermoves with a non-traditional move which they will … More Week 6: Skitter