Casual Dagger Derby
Channel: Lansing Longsword Guild
Date: 26/12/2017

The Dagger Derby pits one fencer at the center against random, aggressive attacks from those outside. The idea is to commit the attacker to make deep attacks that simulate the kinds of dagger assaults that the treatises teach how to defend against, and to match descriptions of dagger attacks in the Early Modern period.

In this variation, the fencer in the middle is unarmed, and must defend against an armed attacker.