Demonstrate:(with coach or partner)
While following your partner’s steps forward and backward:
- Maintain step-lunge distance and choose the moment to attack your partner using a mixture of lunges and step-lunges:
- Taking the blade into Quarte and direct attack
- Taking the blade into Sixte and disengage attack
- Feint direct and attack with one-two
- At lunging distance, maintain line and:
- Hit with Simple Derobement as your partner steps forward and attempts to engage blades in Sixte or Quarte
- Hit with Compound Derobement as your partner steps forward and attempts to engage blades and parries in Sixte or Quarte
From a stationary position:
- From step-lunge distance, make an invitation by step forward, jump forward or half lunge and if your partner attacks, parry Neuvieme and riposte direct
- From step-lunge distance and low hand position, make a feint with a step forward and:
- Attack direct if your partner does not react
- Attack by disengage if your partner takes a parry of Quarte or Circular Sixte
- Parry Neuvieme and riposte direct if your partner attacks with a Beat Direct
- Bind, Croise, Envelopment
- Froissement direct attack with lunge
Describe:
- Your understanding of distance, timing and speed in fencing
- Counter-Time
- Ceding and Opposition Parries
End.