Noble Science Academy - Dublin

Sabre has made its return to the academy!

After a brief hiatus, we blew the dust off our sabres and had a crack at it again after several weeks studying dagger duringour Tuesday classes in its place. We took the chance to refamiliarise ourselves with our 6 cuts and their parries to get back into the swing of things so keep an eye on the page to see what we get up over the next few weeks with Sabre!

Tournament season is still upon us and we have a number national tournaments and events coming up very soon, so we're full steam practising our fundamentals starting with parry reposte, and getting comfortable parrying from uncommon guards and positions.

We've had a few new members joining us lately and alot of interest from prospective ones looking to join up, so now is the perfect time to get involved and learn alongside a group of beginners. Send us a message here or via the email in our bio and learn more on how to take part!

Mixing things up a little bit this week!

We've been revisiting Fiores dagger vs unarmed, It's been several months since we've last picked up our rondels and got up close and personal, and with a group of students who are learning the system for the first time it's been alot of fun! On Tuesday we covered Fiores 1st Master, which is a great introduction to dagger and it's mechanics. We've got a few more plays to cover so the next few weeks are going to be very interesting 🗡

Longsword is business as usual, working on Parry/Reposte, making sure we can keep ourselves alive before reposting safety and effectively! We changed things up a little bit during our last class, allowing the attacker to retreat, adding a little more speed and shortening the reaction time to our repotes for a more natural scenario!

We've been covering cuts in Rapier, the the preferred way of attacking with this particular weapon but worth covering all the same, after a short lesson that went over when and how to cut with proper technique we'll spend the next few classes getting into the real lessons and learn how to counter cuts!

As always, if you'd like to get involved with classes you can reach out either through our social media or by the email in our bio! ⚔️