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Flash
Back in 2013 when we were just starting out, an acquaintance of ours in Korea sent us a (now sadly defunct) video link of a national tournament, in which some enormous fencer in unmarked gear was...
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Judgment: What referees can learn from Budapest Worlds
The 2019 men’s sabre team final in Budapest was dramatic. It was close, it was tense, it was heated, and it was watched by an awful lot of people. Right in the middle of all this, referee Luigi...
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John’s Guide to Sabre Equipment
tldr; version: “Buy the minimum set. For your body, right now. Of the best quality you can afford. Starting with things you can’t/don’t want to borrow.” There is no requirement for people fencing at...
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Waratah
Sydney Sabre has gone into hibernation. We started preparing for this a month or so ago, when the first reports of COVID-19 escaping Wuhan hit the news. Initially, we hoped to be lucky – Australia is...
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Sydney Sabre’s 8th Iso-Birthday
Long long ago, in the Precedented Times, a bunch of nerds who liked to play a fun sword-fighting game somehow managed to convince a commercial landlord to lease them an unloved vacant office space on...
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The Sydney Sabre Course (with article index)
When we started Sydney Sabre there were few guides for teaching adults how to fence. The syllabi and books we found focused on children and the foil, the standard training weapon of civilian duelists...
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The Break
Excerpt from Make the Cut: Sabre Fencing for Adults, pre-print July 2021. It was meant to be a quick, cheeky, in-and-out raid. Take Thursday and Friday off work. Wake at dawn. Crush emails in the taxi...
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The Footwork
Excerpt from Make the Cut: Sabre Fencing for Adults, pre-print July 2021. Won Wooyoung didn’t move the way coaches taught people to move, or in any way fencing manuals described. For one thing, he...
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The March
Most sabre exchanges play out like an Akira Kurosawa samurai duel. Two fighters face off in silence. Then suddenly, they sprint! Blades flash. Dramatic pause. One falls, one stays standing. Or...
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WE ARE MOVING – An Extremely Important Update from Sydney Sabre
G’day I’ve got big news: We’ve been kicked out of our building. As you are probably aware, our landlord has been planning for some time to demolish the building. After the NSW Government re-opened the...
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