Continuing on from last week's dagger drills 1 to 4 we learnt how they can be used equally as well against an opponent armed with a sword. The same drills applied against a sword armed adversary allowed the student with the dagger easily defeat a sword armed master. (Student being the defender and the master the aggresor). After this came our two standard sword drills, based upon elements found within Fiore and Talhoffer everyone grasped the basics of the movements and could see how they could be used in a show.

Finishing on a bit of fun, where we had a stab at some jabolite used to demonstrate the amount of force required, or not requied to actually injure a person. This part of the training is used to inform our acting when fighting at an event to enable us to move more realistically.

Next week, in a change of tact we are looking at locks, grapples, throws and falls before returning to the earlier sword work the week after.