Description and Requirements
Instructor: Eric Myers & Puck Curtis, Sacramento Sword School/Tattershall School of Defense
Class Length: 3 Hours
Experience Level: Beginner to Intermediate
Pre-Requisites: None
Required Equipment: Students can bring their own montante or spadone trainers. Basic wooden trainers will be provided. For more information on equipment, please visit our VISS Sparring Equipment Requirements page.
Description:
The two-handed sword, which saw active use through the greater part of three centuries, was renowned for its effectiveness against multiple opponents and against single and double handed weapons of all types. This class will sample the works of several different Spanish and Portuguese masters from the late 15th through the late 17th centuries, but will focus on the Memorial of the Practice of the Montante by Gomes de Figueiredo. Class will include basic skill building plays to integrate the movements of sword and body, which is vital to the use of these large swords, and then proceed to context or tactical plays, designed to address situations of encounters on the street, in narrow passageways, defending a person or place, etc.