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
Dear Instructor: Welcome to Week 5. Last week, your students should have learned how to use disengages as Attackers on the March. Disengages are excellent techniques for finishing the attack; I usually advise students to replace direct attacks with disengages in all situations once they are comfortable with the latter. Disengages are a “hedged” move: … More Week 5: Defensive Sweeps
Dear Instructor: Welcome to Week 4. By this stage, your students should be able to fence and referee a complete bout. They can fight in the 4m zone and outside, whether on the March with priority, or on Defence without. This class is about Attackers using disengages to defeat a Defender using parries. Last week, … More Week 4: Disengage
A perfect attacker doesn’t just win most of the time against a perfect defender. A perfect attacker wins every time. The only way for the defender to win is to make the attacker imperfect. … More Week 3: The Defence
The attacker must crush the defender, through whatever obstacles the defender can muster up as a last resort. Until the defender refuses to flee any further, or can do so no more. There is only so far they can run. … More Week 2: The March