Tuesday, January 30, 2018

Cutting drills to match your Plays

So, for some time the CSG has been using this little ditty to introduce new swords-folk to the basics of Fiore. It has all the goodies: passing and gathering footwork, as well as a volta stabile and a mezza volta.

It also covers our first 4 partnered exercises.



That's the little bit I will speak on today. It's useful and important to have you drills match your practice. I acknowledge that it can be of befit to have some basic dexterity drills, and such, worked into your basic solo-practice habits.

Still, I think the at early phases of training, ingraining the plays you want to have occur in your sword fight now, right at he beginning, is vital to executing those plays. The students in this demo ore some of our younger fighters, just getting ready to enter the pain program, yet they have these drills down. I start the children off on the same main drill as our adults.

So, what does your introductory cutting drill look like? I hope for links in the comments.