The Master taught me how to punch parry. … More Week 13: Jump-back Parry Riposte

I learned to lunge by kicking a coin across the floor of a school hall. … More Week 12: Accordion – prep steps, fakes, and finishes

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

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