Compound Ripostes

This is a CLA-style exploratory session designed to investigate and develop skills around compund attacks, as well as developing a sparring flow (as opposed to static drilling of isolated techniques).

It may take some time to a) get comfortable flowing from one action to another, and b) notice patterns in the defender to exploit.

Objectives:

1. Drawing the opponent into a parry position after their attack has been parried,
2. Seeing and taking advantage of openings created by them in doing this.

Observations:

• Changing the height of the strikes (ie: feint low to strike high, and vice versa),
• Changing the line of the strikes (ie: feint on the inside to strike on the outside, etc),
• Changing the angle of the strikes (ie: feint a vertical strike to make an horizontal strike, etc)

Source Text Notes: The source texts agree that the first one or two actions of a compound attack are feints. They define a feint as a simulated attack in which the arm is developed but no lunge is made. Im not entirely sure how this relates to a riposte, since the opponent is by definition already within measure. However, all texts agree that the compound riposte is the key to good sabre fencing.