The method practiced in this class is the military sabre fencing of Luigi Barbasetti, as instructed to Italian, Austro-Hungarian, and French personnel in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
I’d like to share this freely available scan of Luigi Barbasetti’s ‘Art of the Sabre (and the Epee)’, the 1936 translation of his original Italian book of 1899. Flipping through the pages will give you glance at what we’ll be getting up to.
If you’d like to know more about one of the most decorated and colourful fencers in history, this brief wiki entry is a start:
https://www.britannica.com/biography/Luigi-Barbasetti
For the most curious among you, you may discover more about military sabre fencing in late 19th century Italy through Sebastian Seager’s blog: