Active buckler drill

This a a short clip from the end of today’s practice. In this drill the student has only their buckler and needs to defend themself as best as they’re able. We feed blows with two swords so that we can easily increase the tempo of the blows without increasing the power excessively and to make it more challenging to track and predict the next attack. As the Instructor, the goal is to bring the student to the very edge of what they can keep up with and then hold them there until they begin to fade.