Little unscripted parry-riposte volley from recent training with Eli.

I’m big on getting folks comfortable with attacks failing and transitioning from offense to defense.

So I’ll throw in parries and ripostes to keep the fencer on their toes and be able to flow with the changing environment.

This was several weeks ago when it didn’t hurt it be outdoors in New England.

Fun little sequence; mixing a few blade actions here to get more practice in.

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Second half of this drill with Anezka. Same setup and actions, just with mobility thrown in to up the spice.

She’s looking to get me with a disengagement in time. Or, if I land the parry, transition to defense with her own counter-parry & riposte.

Real solid work by Anezka here.

Eli wanted to work on defending low attacks so we block drilled parry of 2nd and 1st (aka low 4th aka half-circle) and then jumped to an option drill.

From his blade seizure I’m attacking either high or low by disengagement. Eli needs to read and select the correct parry.

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Finishing up our lesson with some simple beats and attacks direct.

Once in a while I parry and riposte to keep Eli honest and so he can get some O to D transition work.

After doing some coached sparring to start the lesson, we found a few holes or actions that needed refinement, so we built it into this drill.

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