Grade 3

Demonstrate: (with coach or partner)

While following your partner's steps forward and backward

1. Maintain engagements in Sixte, Quarte, Septime & Octave (see Skills:Guards)

2. Disengage Attack with a lunge from Sixte each time your partner pauses and attempts to engage blades in:-

   1. Sixte from a low line guard

   2. Quarte from a low line guard

From a stationary position:

3. Two types of lunge:

   1. accelerating

   2. explosive

4. Balestra - Balestra step forward - Balestra lunge

5. Beats and change Beats in Sixte, Quarte, Septime & Octave

6. Semi-circular Parries with Direct Ripostes

7. A One-two Attack with an accelerating lunge when your partner attempts to:-

   1. Engage blades in Quarte then parries into Sixte

   2. Engage blades in Sixte then parries into Quarte

Describe:

1. Simple Attacks and Ripostes, and name three types of Parries (see Rules:Offensive and Defensive Actions)

2. Difference between Simple and Compound actions (see Rules:Offensive Actions)

3. Duties of Referee and Judges

4. Timekeeping during competitions

5. Rules regarding the boundaries of the Piste (see Rules:Limits of the Piste)