Best Sword Fighting Game for the Term

ATTACK!

With FOCUS as our theme for the term, the best sword fighting game has been "Attack!" All kids playing sports need to maintain their focus. We train sword fighting skills using this game but it would also be applicable to many other types of martial arts.

How to Play Attack

The children make a large circle with one child in the centre as defender. Depending on how skilled they are, the other children can:

• Sit cross legged facing the defender
• Sit cross legged with backs to the defender
• Lie on their stomachs facing away from the defender

Skills can be varied by:

• Children have a padded sword in their hand
• Swords are on the ground at their feet
• Sword is half way between attacker and defender so either can take it

The defender has his own padded sword for deflecting the attack.

The teacher calls out the name of an attacker. This child then jumps up and attacks the child in the middle with one strike. The defender must deflect and should strike back if successful. To complicate the game for more experienced defenders, send two attackers in one after the other,

We find this to be the best sword fighting game of the term for encouraging children in aggressive attack as well. Standing tip to tip every time a sparring match begins is no way to develop attacking sword fighting moves. The children need to learn how to break in and get things started.

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