Introduction seminar for fencing with sword and dagger

🇫🇮 The teaching in the clip was unfortunately only in Finnish 🇬🇧 Please use the English subtitles to follow what was explained Introduction to sword & dagger fencing according to the Bolognese fencing tradition. This video includes the teaching parts of the whole seminar and it can be used to start training as a starting framework for fencing with sword and dagger. This seminar was a cross-section of Giovanni dall’Agocchie’s (1572) method of structuring the training and fencing with sword & dagger - it was not a complete look into the material, but a look how it is constructed and how it works in practical terms. It was also designed to provide the participants an usable set of material for training the system on their own. 0:00 Overview 0:27 Part 1: Provocation plays 0:31 First provocation 3:52 First provocation - details 5:53 Second provocation 8:46 Second provocation - details 10:51 Third provocation 15:11 Third provocation - details 17:35 Fourth provocation 20:53 Fourth provocation - details 22:16 Part 2: Defensive plays 25:52 Against high mandritto 28:26 Against low mandritto 30:47 Against low mandritto 2 32:20 Against high riverso 35:27 Against high riverso 2 36:58 Against low riverso 38:50 Against low riverso - details 40:40 Against thrusts 42:38 Part 3: Freeplay & recap 44:07 Part 3: Freeplay & recap If you are interested in learning Bolognese fencing from me, I give seminars at a steady place. I also have a Patreon site for learning the system according to my teaching methods from ground-up: Lastly, all the material and interpretations I teach come from St. Louis School of Arms. I highly recommend their Patreon, which is the world’s largest Bolognese martial arts library: Feel free to ask about anything!