A focused tactical training workshop built around structured repetition, constrained choices, and developing better decisions under pressure. This class emphasizes practical pattern recognition and clean execution through high-repetition partnered work. If you have been struggling to make your class skills function under pressure, this workshop is for you.
Blue and red cords are invited for a 4-hour intensive on body mechanics, tactics, and strategy in this customized interdisciplinary workshop. Build your proficiency and tactical conditioning through rigorous, high-level drilling with a focus on alignment, timing, and efficiency.
The use of two swords is the pinnacle of mastery. Through this two-hour workshop you'll learn how to coordinate two sideswords in attack and defence: the four closed positions, cut-and-thrust transitions, parries, counter-attacks, and more. Each time we offer this workshop we touch on a different aspect of the two-sword system, so there will be new material for experienced practitioners as well as newcomers.
Get ready for your archery scholar exam with this workshop that targets assessment requirements and other crucial skills. Each workshop is customized to its students and the areas they want to improve - from consistency with different bows and aiming, to grouping and speed shooting. You will learn skills, sign off assessments, and build experience all in one class!
Blue and red cords are invited to deepen their practice of the Italian sidesword through advanced work on line, measure, tempo, and tactical initiative. This 4-hour intensive will focus on building efficient mechanics, cleaner cut-and-thrust transitions, stronger decision-making, and more confident application in partnered drills and sparring contexts.
Explore the close-range world of the dagger through the system of Fiore dei Liberi. Students will work through entries, covers, disarms, counters, and tactical decision-making in one of the most direct and demanding parts of the Armizare tradition. Expect hands-on drilling, careful control, and practical applications for students looking to strengthen their close play.
Blue and red cords are invited for a 4-hour intensive on body mechanics, tactics, and strategy in this customized interdisciplinary workshop. Build your proficiency and tactical conditioning through rigorous, high-level drilling with a focus on alignment, timing, and efficiency.
Get ready for your Scholar exam with this workshop customized to attendee needs, tailored to focus on the assessment areas you want to improve. You’ll target the skills, do the assessments, and get practical experience all in one class.
Develop the skills to shoot faster without losing structure, safety, or control. This workshop focuses on the practical mechanics of speed shooting: holding arrows in the bow hand, blind nocking, efficient loading techniques, and a smooth repeatable draw process. Students will build confidence toward getting six arrows out in a minute while maintaining good form and clear range discipline.
Graduates of our Level 1 Instructor Intensive who have completed all of the non-combat assessments for their scholar level (blue cord) in either our Rapier or Longsword program, are invited to join us for this special Level 2 Instructor Intensive.
This five-day camp for children ages 8 to 14 is focused on the skills of becoming of a knight, from learning the martial arts of the longsword and sword & shield, to practicing knightly virtues such as courage and integrity. Students at Knight Camp learn about history, leadership, heraldry, archery, medieval games, dance and more!
Knight Academie
Weekly youth mastery classes — archery, swordplay, and sparring.
Free Trials
Each month, join us for a series of classes on a topic we don’t typically cover in regular mastery classes. Abrazare, polearms, cutting, special principles, and more. Check out this term’s topics:
JULY Mondays — Abrazare: Build your wrestling skills from unarmed to dagger. Apprentice and Scholar skills will be covered.
AUGUST Mondays — English Backsword w/ Master Stephen Hand: Study the English backsword tradition through guards, blows, wards, and tactical principles drawn from English martial sources. This class will build clean cutting mechanics, timing, distance, and practical decision-making while connecting single-sword practice to the broader English martial tradition.
SEPTEMBER Mondays — Abrazare: Build your wrestling skills from unarmed to dagger. Apprentice and Scholar skills will be covered.
This class explores the art of swordplay through solo and partnered forms. Students train structured sequences that develop flow, technical precision, martial expression, and tactical awareness, offering a cooperative path to deepen skill for both sparring and performance.
New students are encouraged to start on the first class of each month, as each month introduces a new focus while continuing to build both solo and partner forms.
July — Learning and Perfecting Forms: Build confidence with the structure, rhythm, and mechanics of solo and partnered forms.
August — Cooperative Violence, Making Safe Hits: Learn how to create convincing martial action with control, trust, and partner safety.
September — Forms from Historical Sources: Explore forms and sequences drawn from historical martial traditions, connecting practice to source material.
Martial Forms is ideal for Apprentices and above who want to strengthen technique, flow, presence, and cooperative martial skill.
Each month, join us for a series of classes on a topic we don’t typically cover in regular mastery classes. Abrazare, polearms, cutting, special principles, and more. Check out this term’s topics:
JULY Wednesdays — No Talking, Just Drilling: A focused training session built on repetition and flow: fundamentals, partner drills, and decision-making patterns with minimal verbal instruction. Train slow for refinement or increase intensity as your gear allows. Bring appropriate protective equipment if you want more speed and pressure.
AUGUST Wednesdays — Abrazare: Build your wrestling skills from unarmed to dagger. Apprentice and Scholar skills will be covered.
SEPTEMBER Wednesdays — Polearms: Train the fundamentals of polearms through posture, grips, thrusting lines, covers, footwork, and tactical control. This class builds skills that connect spear, poleaxe, staff, and improvised pole weapons within the Duello Armizare system.
An evening of steel, music, and good company — a live armoured Knight Fight, acoustic music, board games, and a rotating array of archery, axe throwing, sword lessons, and dancing. The café bar serves food, ale, and warm drinks all night.
A weekend devoted to community, camaraderie, and multi-disciplinary martial challenge. Friday: the Rapier & Longsword Opens. Saturday: the Under-Represented Genders Longsword Tournament, the Archery Tournament, and an evening Deed of Arms. Sunday: open sparring, exhibition bouts, cutting with sharps, and the Accolade Tournament honouring Arte, Ardore, and Onore. Open to all disciplines, speeds, and weapons.
A special evening honouring youth-program members who have completed the full Knight Camp rank pathway and their Knightly Trials — celebrating courage, integrity, humility, charity, justice, and respect. Families, friends, and the Duello community are invited. Potluck desserts welcome!
Come have your lunch with us at the HxBIA Fridays Lunch Meet, one of a series of small-scale, casual and neighbourly, summer street activations. We will have our booth set up for Show & Tell, along with our portable (large toy) axe-throwing stand! Enjoy low-impact live music while having lunch at the cafe-style seating, eating fare from adjacent eateries offering coordinated lunch features or specials.
Join Academie Duello students challenging for their next levels in the archery program. Bring your bow and participate in challenging our prizers in their archery duels. Open to observers.
Come have your lunch with us at the HxBIA Fridays Lunch Meet, one of a series of small-scale, casual and neighbourly, summer street activations. We will have our booth set up for Show & Tell, along with our portable (large toy) axe-throwing stand! Enjoy low-impact live music while having lunch at the cafe-style seating, eating fare from adjacent eateries offering coordinated lunch features or specials.
Details to come.
Academie Duello joins the Mission Renaissance Festival for a full weekend of swordplay, archery, and historical martial arts. Find us at our booth and demonstration area for performances and hands-on lessons all weekend. Volunteers wanted — contact the front desk to get involved.
Two days of competition and community. Friday: Longsword & Rapier Speed-5 sparring. Saturday: the Archery Tournament on the range. Compete, volunteer, or cheer from the sidelines — schedule and registration to come.
Join Academie Duello students challenging for their next levels in the rapier and longsword. Bring your sword(s) and participate in challenging our prizers in their duels. Open to observers.
An open sparring and archery practice for all Academie Duello members and guests. Qualified guests can attend for a $10 drop-in fee.