PRACTICAL:

• Footwork - with changes in speed, direction and guard
• Beat attacks with a lunge
• Beat disengage and counter disengage attacks with a lunge
• Making an engagement in sixte
• Making an engagement in quarte
• Compound attack - feint direct, disengage
• Compound attack - disengage, disengage
• Compound attack - feint direct, counter-disengage
• Successive parries
• First counter with disengage ripostes
• Second counter with disengage ripostes
• Use of point in line
• Use of pris-de-fer attacks

THEORY:

• Give the dimension of the piste
• What is the penalty for going off the end of the piste
• What is the penalty for going off the side of the piste
• What is the penalty for unsportsman-like behaviour
• Describe the concept of 'Reaction Time' and its importance
• Define a point in-line
• Define a counter-disengage riposte
• Define a first counter riposte
• Define a compound attack
• Define absence of blade
• What is the time limit for a bout of 5 hits
• What is the time limit for a bout of 10 hits
• What is the time limit for a bout of 15 hits

REFEREEING:

• Show the ability to fill in a pool sheet correctly
• Demonstrate correct and accurate use of phrasing and an understanding of Right of Way
• Demonstrate the use of correct hand signals for all actions
• If appropriate demonstrate enforcement of the rules of fencing

FREE FIGHTING:

• Display competence in deploying the techniques of fencing in a free-play situation
• Demonstrate good point and blade control
• Demonstrate a tactical use of footwork, timing and distance
• Demonstrate correct manners e.g. saluting, shaking hands etc