Calling Cards Chapter 4: Aftermath
He taught her naval combat, as well as swordplay, how to spit like a male, and other masculine things. as such, she never fitted in anywhere as she seemed to female in sex, but had a masculine upbringing. this wasn't to say she was transgender.
Of Equines and Man
Increase the guard with direct teaching, but i need to learn myself the arts of swordplay while i teach them unit formations."
A Worse and Better Day
She would use the smallest knives to counter his rookie swordplay like it was nothing. he wanted to get that good one day, even though she wasn't there to teach him. he stepped out to the center of the training floor.
Strange Tidings
They moved from dodging spear thrusts to swordplay, and from that to finding the weak spots in armour.
Cold Steel (Part 2)
Vinge's words… he was practically instructing sash on how to beat him by quoting those passages… he hadn't been looking down on sash; he'd been targeting his pride… and he had resorted to defensive swordplay to make sash believe he was close to victory, when
Is this a Dream?
Rin likewise took adrian to fencing class and general swordplay, although after a few basic lessons, adrian's patience and finesse won out over rin's recklessness and heavy handed strokes.
Small World Ch 1: Cube Farm
His father had taught him the art of swordplay from an early age and he had used it to slice open hunters and destroy those who wished to continue oppressing evos.
The Silver Sea - Act 2
There was nothing elegant about it, as it was nothing like swordplay with its practiced, sweeping motions. there was no grace.
Shady Impressions: Of Mouthiness, Monologues and Mountains #2 & #3
"you know... a spellblade, someone who incorporates magic into their swordplay. like say for instance you electrify your sword or cover it in fire. something like that."
Sonata by Moonlight
What a paradox, being a man who desires nothing but a peaceful life while possessing such a fascination with the art of swordplay.
I, Dacien Chapter 26 -- Serenity
Swing met counter, feint met withdrawal with a meticulous artistry that only lyo could appreciate - their respective mastery of swordplay was amazing and seen from the state of _perfectus_ in which lyo drifted, even more beautiful as the possibilities bloomed
Mysteries of the East Chapter 4: Research (Pt 3)
The elder lucario moved out of the way of his strike, and when caulin turned for another, he blocked it with the flat of his weapon before pushing him back and pressed an attack of his own, forcing caulin on the defense with his swift and precise swordplay