Beginner's Classes

Next sessions starting
August 2, 3 & 7 MORE

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Falconry Workshop

Fly and handle these amazing birds of prey! MORE

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Swordplay Introduction

Attack, defense, posture and movement MORE

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Theatrical Combat

Build and develop your skills in stage combat and stunts MORE

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SwordFit Warrior

Knightly Arts fitness program
with heavy weapons MORE

Warrior

The Warrior program is Academie Duello’s alternative to the Mastery program for those who are more interested in heavy weapons and an intensive physical workout where you learn the knightly arts of the longsword, sword and shield, spear, wrestling, and knife. The Warrior Program combines technical training with SwordFit, our swordplay and circuit training program, to create a training system for the modern warrior.

The pre-requisite for entry into the Warrior Program is Academie Duello’s 8-class introduction to the Knightly weapons: Warrior Fundamentals or the Taste of the Renaissance program.

Warrior Fundamentals: Introduction to the Knightly Weapons

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In this 8-class introductory program, students will learn the fundamental skills of the traditional european warrior including: wrestling, longsword, sword and shield, spear, and quarterstaff.

As a pre-requisite to the Warrior Program this program emphasizes the heavier weapons we use to train at the Academie and will give you the building blocks for pursuing the art for physical and mental development.

You will learn:

Fundamental movements of the longsword, arming sword, and quarterstaff
Basic attacks, defences, postures, and movement
How to bind, break, and shed attacks

Classes run on Mondays and Wednesdays, starting on the first Monday of every month at 6:30pm.

Cost: $99 +gst

Warrior Program

The Warrior program is a physically focused program that combines Academie Duello’s SwordFit program with technical training to create a modern warrior training ground. This program focuses on strength and cardio training combined with sword work, sparring exercises, and solo technical drills.

The primary weapon of the Warrior Program is the longsword, wielded in two hands. Every two weeks students learn fundamental movements, techniques, and tactics in solo and partner exercises. On alternating weeks students will learn the techniques of the sword and shield, quarterstaff, and grappling techniques used both in armour and out.

The Warrior Program can be combined with the Mastery Program to create an even more rounded training program that further balances the technical and physical aspects of the art.

There are no ranks in the Warrior Program, as there are in the Mastery Program, as the emphasis is on increased physical fitness and personal progression.

Conditioning

Academie Duello’s SwordFit program was developed by Maestro Devon Boorman and Pole Vaulter and Masters of Kinesiology Michel Duran. The program is designed to develop core strength, explosive power, and overall fitness of mind and body through traditional battlefield training exercises combined with modern circuit training.