Time for something a little different. Rick has trained Capo Ferro rapier, as well as Meyer rapier and military sabre for about a year now. There have been requests for all sorts of mixed weapons against rapier recently, so here is something a little out there.
Paired daggers have some obvious weaknesses in the ability to parry and defend against a range of powerful cuts. As well as the obvious reach disadvantage.
However, despite the rapier being one of the best unarmoured one-on-one fighting swords ever made, it does not possess substantial cutting power, and has one major weakness, that it's length can allow it to be bound up more easily than shorter swords.
For this exercise, I gave Rick no warning at all. He was allowed to use any techniques he wanted, cut or thrust. But of course he had no time to prepare for it, so was thrown against a very unfamiliar combination.
