Rapier & Cloak, and Medieval Arming Sword

For Intermediate and Advanced students

Upgrade those sword skills, with finesse and aggression!

Wielding both the Rapier & Cloak, and Arming Sword, students will focus their training on up-levelling their skill and control with a blade. Exploring the finesse and flair of dual-wielding Rapier & Cloak, and the close quarters fighting style of a single short sword, this course will cover the use of both weapons for both their martial historical accuracy and their use in fantasy genres, for stage, screen and motion capture.

DATES:
Monday 1st to Wednesday 10th September 2025
9am - 5pm. No classes on weekends; Monday classes finish at 4pm.
VENUE:
The Thanet Youth & Community Centre, Malden Road, Herbert St, London NW5 4HD.
WHO IT’S FOR:
Anyone looking to gain their Intermediate or Advanced Fighter status, with a minimum of a current Standard Level BADC qualification, and those adding to their current qualifications, or improving their results at Further Weapons level. Those with at least a Standard Level qualification from another Stage Combat training organisation (BASSC, APC) can be considered for the BADC Further Weapons training if their qualification is still valid.
WEAPONS COVERED:
This course will cover Rapier & Cloak, and Arming Sword
This is an intensive course in which students will spend up to 50 hours learning to safely perform fight choreography in each of the fight disciplines stated above. This course will build upon the foundations gained on the Standard Level qualification, with students engaging with the dramatic and historic elements of each weapon system whilst presenting a technique that is hidden to the audience, to create a fully committed, truthful performance. Both of the weapon systems will incorporate a script.

As the requirements to obtain Intermediate or Advanced Fighter status have now changed within the BADC (two distinctions needed after Standard level for Intermediate and a further two distinctions to become Advanced), this course offers those students looking to improve upon past qualifications the best chance to hone their skills, improve technique and combine it with the dramatic intent needed to operate at the top level.

Students will have the opportunity at the end of the course to certify with the British Academy of Dramatic Combat.
The test fee is included in the course price.
FEE:
Early Bird Offer: £375 (Ends July 25th 2025)
BADC, BASSC, APC, Equity, NUS membership: £400
Standard Price: £425
Single Weapon Price: £250 (Specify preference to take the single weapon option when completing booking form)