Actually, Gato and I teach Rapier, and I teach Shinai, and we've been interested in getting people over to his house for a practice for some time now, but people say theyre coming, and never show up!
I currently teach two or three of my crew every Friday and Sunday evenings. Maybe we could combine practices. I teach shinai first, and once they've learned to make perrying automatic and build strenth, I will move them up to rapier.
As for me, I NEED to use my rapier! It's been a while! (double antendre!). I would like very much to fight with steel.
I can't speak to my Captain's rapier, but I've found a nice, inexpensive practise shinai here at DragonCon that I might pick up! (unless I get distracted by the corsets, or the comics, or the Sir Diddymus plush toy....)
At my second mates apartment on 57th drive and Camelback. It's the second complex north of Camelback on the right. Isn't there a Captains meeting at the con this Friday?