Video: Parts of Rapier Swords & Daggers

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What parts of a rapier sword come up in fencing classes. Learn the parts of a rapier sword and a dagger in this free stage combat video.

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larado Jan 29, 2009
You are fighting with a sabre, not a rapier.
larado Jan 29, 2009
You are fighting with a sabre, not a rapier.

Video Transcript

In this clip I'm going to be showing you some weapons that we're going to be fighting with. This is our dagger. It has, there are a few different parts to a dagger. You've got your hilt, which is everything below here. So this would be the handle, you've got your knuckle guard, and then you've got your pommel. Above the hilt you have your blade, the, the point is right over here. The weakest part of the blade is called the foible, that's this guy over here, probably from here out. Mid-blade, and then you've got your forte, which is the strongest part of the blade. It doesn't matter as much with those three things with the dagger because it's all pretty strong, but once you get into a rapier, then you have a different story. You don't really want to attack with your foible as much, because it's not as strong, if you, if you're doing cut. You want to try and hit with, with your forte because then you have more, more power behind it. The, the rapier works the same way. You've got everything here to here is called your hilt. You've got your knuckle guard, knuckle bow, you've got your handle, and you've got your pommel. And it works the same way with your blade. You've got your foible, mid-blade, and forte. And then you have, if you look, anything on the side of your knuckle bow, this is our true edge. This is what you're going to be cutting with most of the time. And then on the opposite side you have your false edge. And those are our weapons that we're going to be using today.

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Parts of Rapier Swords & Daggers

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