Students will move on to learn the sabre and rapier technique, and to do set stage fights with these weapons. Students will be individually assessed at the end of the semester. Full-year students perform mastery stage fights using the broadsword and buckler, quarterstaff, rapier and dagger. The last part of the program will be spent preparing for the Proficiency Tests which are fought with small sword, rappier and dagger, and unarmed combat. The weapons used during the year are provided by the Marymount London Center Armory.
Students are responsible for the weapons in their possession.
Safety, mastery of skills and staging a convincing fight will be emphasized. Test noted above. They will move on to dive rolls, back rolls, tumbling rolls, cartwheels, walking on hands, handstands into tuck rolls, vaulting, early stages of handsprings and and somersaults, more advanced falls and balances. Students will simultaneously be working on developing unarmed combat and making stage fight look good. Students will extend their limits within a safe environment.