Solo Sabre Drill from Angelo (Great for Home practice)

People often ask us for a drill they can practice at home, well this is one of the best. I will go into it more in a future video, but this is it's first appearance at our Bristol class. It is the opening drill in Angelo's broadsword lessons.
The participants here vary from experienced fencers, to first time with a sword in the hand, first time practicing the drill for all, and within one session everyone was working through a drill which incorporates so much of the core sabre system. Technique can be corrected and improved in time, but it quickly gets people into good solid sabre principals.
The drill incorporates all of the main cutting attacks and parries for the system. Notice that each parry is the correct parry for the cut which is follows.

[@JohannVF]

More solo/home drills, please! This was excellent!

[@dlatrexswords]

Brilliant Nick! Just as we bemoaned not having a local club this is a great "tool" to help us become self starters :)

[@VelmiVelkiZrut]

Basically, this. This video comes at just the right time for me as well.

[@Yeknodathon]

Yep, scribbling down notes here!

[@AcademyofHistoricalFencing]

Great to hear it. This is by far one of the best solo drills you can do for sabre. I will discuss it more in articles and an instructional video soon.

[@Yeknodathon]

Oh my, the saliva glands are working overtime....

[@AcademyofHistoricalFencing]

I am also working on a Workbook designed to help those working on Taylor's 10 lessons. When it is done I'll post a video about it and link to the PDF, you will of course need an opponent to practice these parts. The ten lessons will also be covered in video lessons in time.

[@KlausBeckEwerhardy]

Nicely done. Thanks for uploading this.

[@davidantileorodriguez9112]

Thanks! Greetings from Chile

[@michelledhyana4516]

so those solo drills are from the first line of angelo's poster. It would be immensely useful if you could make a video lesson that shows all the movements from the poster.

[@AcademyofHistoricalFencing]

Yes it is, and that is certainly on my list to do.

[@DannYIIF]

Just out of curiosity - are there any badminon/squash/similar-players at the academy? If so, are the habits and muscle memories they built up for that sport affecting their learning curve with swordfighting?

[@AcademyofHistoricalFencing]

Nope. I has been my experience in 20 years of swordsmanship that badminton/squash players almost never get involved with martial arts. By that I mean any dedicated ones, I played a little tennis many years ago, but nothing of note.

[@emarsk77]

It's the one shown here, right? www.thearma.org/pdf/HungarianHighlandBroadsword.pdf It's nice to see it in motion, thanks. And I guess that the Naval Cutlass Exercise would look quite similar, apart from some ordering differences. (btw, "its first appearance", "which it follows")

[@AcademyofHistoricalFencing]

Yes, the first line of the poster at the end of that document. I recently restored a full colour version of it, and will be showing that soon. Yes, grammar mistakes happen when you post a video at midnight after getting home from fencing :-)