Sabre Grade 3

Demonstrate: (with coach or partner)

While following your partner’s steps forward and backward:

  1. Maintain correct distance and make successive Cuts to Cheek, Head, Flank and Chest using various combinations, without a lunge
  2. Maintain correct distance and each time your partner pauses, Attack with Direct and Indirect Cuts to Head, Flank and Chest, with a lunge

From a stationary position:

  1. Cuts to Arm
  2. Stop Cut followed by a Parry of Tierce, Quarte or Quinte with a Direct Riposte
  3. Indirect Riposte following Parries of Tierce, Quarte and Quinte
  4. Parries of Tierce, Quarte and Quinte with a Direct first Counter-riposte
  5. Attacks to Head, Flank and Chest with step-lunge and Balestra-lunge

Describe:

  1. ‘Priority of Attack”
  2.  Indirect Actions – give three examples
  3. Duties of President and Judges
  4. Voting system of Jury and Responses of Judges
  5. Rules regarding the boundaries of the Piste

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