The Old Sword Club

Lesson plan 8/4/2026

Warm up
❥ Moulinets
❥ Lunges
❥ Keeping distance and lunging when Emerald lowers their sword

Tactical thoughts, establishing the attack
❥ Emerald talks about establishing the attack
❥ Anyone who wants the lesson stays and anyone who wants to bout goes and tries to establish the attack in their bouts
❥ Non-telegraphic lunges
❥ Non-telegraphic lunge and parry afterblow

Bouting time

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Lesson plan 7/4/2026

Warm up
❥ Leg whiriels
❥ Toe touch
❥ Side to side ninja squat thing
❥ Shoulder whirlies
❥ Chest circles
❥ Lunges
❥ Jump squats
❥ Moulinets

More parries! Also ripostes
❥ Parries of septime, octave, high octave, and parata di sesta
❥ Randomly defending cuts in all four lines with them.
❥ Timing the riposte and if you should use opposition
❥ Slow riposte (if it won't cut into bouting time)

Bouting time

Further readings:
Foil and Sabre: A Grammar of Fencing in Detailed Lessons for Professor and Pupil
By Louis Rondelle · 1892 https://www.google.com.au/books/edition/Foil_and_Sabre/nmrPAAAAMAAJ?hl=en&gbpv=0

Cold Steel A Practical Treatise On The Sabre
By Alfred Hutton · 1889 https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.278655

The Roman-Neapolitan School of Fencing (Hardcover)
By Christopher Holzman (translator) · 2015 https://www.lulu.com/shop/christopher-holzman/the-roman-neapolitan-school-of-fencing-hardcover/hardcover/product-12jv9jvz.html

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Lesson plan 25/3/2026

Warm up
❥ Leg whiriels
❥ Toe touch
❥ Side to side ninja squat thing
❥ Shoulder whirlies
❥ Chest circles
❥ Lunges
❥ Jump squats
❥ Moulinets

Pro-gamer riposting skills
❥ The judgment of which riposte to use.
❥ Fencing with only direct attacks and parry ripostes, but the swords have to maintain contact the entire time.
❥ Turn based fencing with only direct attacks, parry ripostes, AND REMISES!

Bouting time

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Amsterdam Parade, fencing on a float, 1949