Het vijfde International Rapier Seminar 2018 was een succes. Het was dit jaar in Delft georganiseerd door de School voor Historische Schermkunsten. Elk jaar wordt het IRS door een andere club georganiseerd.

 
- advanced and beginners classes
- separate tracks of classes for beginners and experienced Rapierists, so that everybody can train with all instructors at an appropriate level!
- Reinier van Noort (NL/NO) teaching Dutch single rapier by Bruchius
- Lynette Nusbacher (UK) teaching Fabris rapier and dagger
- Iacopo Iacoponi (IT) teaching Capoferro’s early rapier.
- Alberto Bomprezzi (SP) teaching destreza: Geometry applied to Fencing
- Mike Prendergast (IR) - Giganti's pragmatic fencing against cuts.
- Emilia Skirmuntt (UK) Dirty tricks in single rapier and how to apply them in the tournament environment

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We are planning a tournament on Sunday in thee pools.
- single rapier
- rapier and dagger
- mixed (including aforementioned, cloak, and buckler (<30cm)
Each pool has one winner. The cup goes to the best technical fencer of the whole tournament.

The results of the tournament:

Majken Roelfszema - technical excellence
Henry Vilhunen - single rapier
Oliver Janseps - mixed rapier
Bart Jongsma - rapier and dagger