One of our students needed a fight to land a spot in the Fight Cast at Bristol Renaissance Faire. It worked.
| Dawn | Richard |
| In a defensive stance, left foot leading. Her left hand is up near her face to ward off thrusts. | In a traditional right-foot leading stance |
| Passing forward, thrusts to right arm | Hanging 4 parry |
| Duck | Head slash (swing and a miss) left to right |
| On a cross forward, thrust to right leg and then right arm (blade then pauses a moment in the right arm parry | On a cross back, parry 2 then parry 6 |
| Avoids her face to the left, and pushes aside the incoming thrust with her left hand | Thrust to the face (swing and a miss) |
| Draws a cut against Richard's right side (a wound), and reacts to her left hand being cut | Draws a cut against Dawn's hand (resting against his blade), and reacts to his right side being cut |
| Diagonal slash up right to down left (swing and a miss) | Avoid left |
| React stagger back | Step up and shove Dawn, with left arm against her chest |
| Parry prime and move through into head slash left to right (swing and a miss) and demi-volte to face right. | Forehand cut at the stomach while charging forward. Big duck to avoid head slash takes him to hands and knees. |
| Left foot contact kick to stomach | React |
| Avoid back and stagger back | From ground, slash down left to up right (swing and a miss) as you roll away |
| Square up again | Stand and square up |
| Parry 3 | Ballestra, thrust right arm |
| Thrust right leg | Parry 2 |
| Parry 2 | Thrust right leg |
| Avoid left | False edge slash down left to up right (swing and a miss) |
| Punto reverso, thrust right arm | Traverse step, parry 2 (high) |
| Square up | Bind blade over to left side high |
| Block kick with left hand (react in pain from previous wound), stagger back | Left foot kick to groin (blocked) |
| Charge in anger, beating aside thrusts in Parry 3, parry 4 | Retreat as needed, thrust to right arm, then left, passing back for deBoer thrust |
| Parry 4 and grab his right arm with left hand | Fleche into center thrust |
| Slam into corps-a-corps | Slam into corps-a-corps |
| Slash his held right arm | React drop sword |
| Slash neck (kill) | React (kill), fall |
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