Our rapier squad getting a little extra reps in this past weekend. Here they work through a simple tactical option drill — attack by glide or parry & riposte.
Thanks to our friend at Athena for letting use their space for a makeup class.
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This week we ran our first free trial class of the year for our Classical Fencing program at @cambridgefoundry!
Eight new fencers got a chance at playing with the Italian dueling sword and saber.
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Huge thanks to our friends at Athenafor letting us use their space for an evening.
This winter has been brutal and we’ve had to cancel a bunch of Tuesday classes so it was nice to do a make up session.
Rapier team exploring the use of body voids and evasions to defend against an opppnent’s attack.
Here Kaycee shows a Girata and Alejandro shows a Passata Sotto.
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Happy International Women's Day to this team of swashbucklers and duelists. Couldn't ask for a better squad to train with.
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Academie fencers, don't forget to turn your clocks ahead before bed this evening (assuming you have any analogs laying about). Daylight savings time is here!
And with our new 10:30am start time for Sunday, maybe hit the hay early for the extra rest. :D
Picked up some of the dueling swords and a smarra by Yixuan (via swordshop). Tossed on basic dry epee blades from Absolute Fencing.
The tang of the epee needs shortening for the smarra but the dueling swords are good to go.
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Alejandro demonstrating the use of rapier and buckler via Giuseppe Pallavicini (1673). From paper to the real world.
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A little dueling sword action in the new digs.
Our classical fencing clsss with the Italian foil, dueling sword and saber is Sundays at our new home at Cambridge Foundry, 10:30am-1pm.
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⚜️ EVENTS & PARTIES | Celebrate with one of our dueling experiences. Get a crash course on historical fencing. Beats trust falls and awkward ice breakers.
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⚜️ PRIVATE LESSONS | We also offer private and small group lessons for folks that want a more personal touch to their historical and classical fencing training.
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⚜️ TUESDAYS | Rapier Fencing. Learn to swashbuckle and fence like a Musketeer with the single rapier and various offhand weapons.
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⚜️ SUNDAYS | Classical Fencing with the Italian Foil, Dueling Sword and Saber. Learn to duel like the Golden Age of Fencing.
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We're excited to dive into our Fifth Anniversary with our Winter/Spring class offerings.
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Our Classical Fencing class has a new home at the beautiful dancing studio at The Foundry in Cambridge!
Learn how to duel and fence with the Italian smallsword, foil and saber.
Sundays from 10:30am-1pm
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Congrats to Edvard for being inducted into the SCA East Kingdom's Order of the Silver Rapier this weekend! This is the organization's first level rapier award for fencing skill.
Nice work!
📸 Casimir Sarkastyczny
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March is Women's History Month!
HEMA History is full of interesting women who picked up the blade.
From left to right: Walpurgis (from fencing book 1.33); Julie d'Aubigny aka Mademoiselle de Maupin (opera singer turned duelist); Madame de Saint-Baslemont (French writer, soldier, and duelist)
First day in the new digs at The Foundry! Great spot for some classical fencing.
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Say hello to our newest crew of swashbucklers!
We are excited to have this group as our first band of rapier fencers at our new, earlier 6pm slot. They’ve dove head first and are a lot of fun to train with.
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Our 5 Year Anniversary patches are now here!
Anezka and Yelena both had their best pool records to date, finishing 7-3 and 6-3 respectively. Bella also had a solid 5-5 round robin record.
Amazing fencing all around!!
Congrats to the team for a fantastic showing at the EK Rapier Champs this weekend!
Huge congrats to Jon for winning the tournament & becoming the new King’s Champ!
Kate also was stellar, coming in 2nd in her pool & making her second Sweet 16 appearance.
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We had a great time at RASP 2026 this year! Another strong Boston contingent between the SCA and Boston HEMA.
Thanks to the RASP organizers and all the provosts and maestri for a great event. Also thanks to the rest of the fencers for the continued camaraderie. 'Till next year!
Our beginners are exploring using various secondaries or offhand weapons alongside the rapier.
Here Sam adapts a Fabris dagger guard to the buckler.
Our beginner rapier class is in Tuesdays at 6pm and 7:30pm in Belmont, MA.
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Dagger month continues for our beginners.
Here a couple of our 6pm crew work on a simple option drill during warmups. Their goal is to respond to what their partner does in-time as best they can.
Nice work by Jack here!
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Our classical fencing class continued to explore actions on the blade with a review of beats and a few ways of defeating beats.
In this drill, we assume the opponent landed a successful beat and is attacking direct in earnest.
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That’s another good one, especially against ring daggers
Benefits
✅ Harder for opponent to manipulate your sword
✅ Keeps sword free to attack
✅ Easier to parry with the dagger
✅ Can mess up opponent’s sense of distance
Drawbacks
❌ Sword travels further
❌ Sword isn’t good spot for defense
❌ May screw up your own sense of distance
Our beginner rapier crew working on some dagger-extended & sword-withdrawn guards.
Our rapier class is Tuesdays at 6pm @ 7:30pm in Belmont, MA.
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