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Extremely helpful!! As a short foil fencer I can say that having a coach that knows how a short fencer should fence and that understands that us shorties need to approach fencing in a different way and use ad-hoc techniques can really make the difference When I was 16, the two strongest girls in my club (both Italian champions for 2 years straight) were short and took a ton of lessons specifically to train that particular way of fencing.

Interesting ideas! I like the example at 16:37. In fencing, landing a flick early in the bout can really help you get your opponent to be worried about direct hits as well as flicks. So then you combine both, and keep changing the lines where you finish, staying one or a few steps ahead throughout the bout🤺🤺🤺

I learned a few things!

Extremely helpful, I think another good example for short fencers would be Peter’s Joppich

My coach says the exact same thing. Fencing is literally just physical chess and its way more mental than people think it is. People think it’s like just a very physical sport but it is veryy mental sometimes.something i wanna point out off topic is that fencing a lefty while you are a righty is really flippin hard

Great video!

I was sure that pawn would be point in line - it has such perfect parallels to the pawn - get it to the other side, aka. touch without being parried/beaten, the attack at an angle is like a disengage. It is also a tool that can be used both defensively and offensively, it is very much out in front of the other pieces, it can be used to setup other actions. But I get that you are generally assigning much higher level concepts to the pieces, there are too many individual actions to assign just one to each piece. My understanding of the idea of fencing as physical chess is basically extending your idea of fencing as rock-paper-scissors, to a more elaborate level than even rock-paper-scissors-lizard-spock - the idea that every action has a counter action, but you have to evaluate what you know and learn about your opponents tactics to adapt your strategy on the fly. Also knowing that your opponent knows you are adapting - how many levels deep do you go? - is analagous in some ways to how many turns deep can you analyze a chess move.

Love this video and all the other recent stuff too! What is your perspective on hyperextension of the elbow during extensions or lunges? I noticed that you were hyperextending at 1:43. I've always done the same until my coach told me explicitly not to a few months ago. I didn't really understand what the point of it was. Was wondering if you had any thoughts?

Really liked the commentated lesson section 🔥

Thanks coach!

The physical demonstrations of bad habits to look for in practice are immensely helpful. Thank you so much!

Interesting video, but I think the wide parry also sets you up for a 4 or 6 flick nicely, so it depends on what action you're looking to follow with!

Hi guys , btw if I buy a small sized grip , should I get a size 5 blade with it . ( I am 15 )

I really enjoyed this

well done. Always wondered about how to go about this.

Love your videos, i always learn something new

In Hong Kong, I teach second language learners. I have a group who are doing a scene from Hamlet. I cannot get the fencing master in the school to come and choreograph the scene, so I am resorting to watching videos with the students. Next lesson will be a video fencing lesson (with rubber swords). I like your video, but you speak a little too fast. No worries, I can still use some of the video.

The more I learn about fencing, the more it resembles stochastic processes and reinforcement learning, with each action being an optimization problem based on spatial position and opponent state. The fundamentals of point control map perfectly to error minimization and probability distributions, while bout strategy is essentially an exploration-exploitation problem with state-action value functions. Fencing ≈ Applied ML with Swords

miles doesn't search, point right

Unnecessary pointless terminology added to decorate basic concepts to impress the naive with secret 'techniques'. Not necessarily wrong just way too much bs where none is necessary.

I am a fan who supports him in Korea. Thank you and I'm glad you made this kind of video!

Thank u for great video. What is CQC?

The constant wheel of rock paper scissors makes this resource invaluable. Thanks for going over the role of the finger vs wrist movement. It's an excellent drill.

Thank you for this content. I'm working on improving my own role as a coach, having spent a LOT of time in Saber but not foil. As a bladeless drill, I also really like the idea of making things smooth before making them fast.

Fencing in shorts is an interesting choice, I can respect it.

We need to actually enforce black card rulings again. Refs have become way to lax

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did he slash him

Honestly looked to me like the kid was a sabre fencer who did a foil competition because his coach wanted him to and he was going for low but legit sabre targets. I've seen many people move from one weapon to another and in the heat of competition, forget what's legit target. I agree, with an adult, this should be seen as preventable and intentional. But with a youth, you don't know what their training has been and it might have been instinct. Still, as a ref I would not have given one black card, but would have continued to card the action and increase the penalties over time and inform the fencer clearly what actions were leading to the cards so they could learn and self-correct. That said, a welt or bruise or two is to be expected. I have three lovely deep bruises on my leading thigh right now from last Saturday's epee bouting. I don't complain - I should have defended better.

Black.

That's just dirty play on the opponent's part. Shame on him and, especially, his coach for not making amends.

It should be black card in my opinion

This really helped me!

Damn that intro hits a little close to the bone 😅

Thank you so much! As this has always been my problem… much appreciated!

I really enjoyed this one a lot! At 5 ft tall a lot of my classmates are taller so I need to be more strategic. Liked how you explained all the different options Kazuki Iimura can take (if the hop bait doesn’t work was awesome)! It’s clear a lot of hard work went into analyzing the bouts and editing in the clips too! Thank you! ❤

I greatly appreciate your continuous efforts in thoughtfully analyzing the principles of both sides’ strategies in fencing. This is truly fencing with the mind. I believe many coaches have similar reflections, but you are the only channel I know that is willing to openly share fencing techniques and the strategic thinking behind them. My son and I are both loyal fans of yours.

Video quality is increasing exponentially.

3:10 amen brother

great video. in future maybe try balance the music audio a little more as it can be hard to hear your voice at times. :)

Loved the explanation, please get more active with your breakdowns and tutorials again

For those who use the middle of their finger, I this this is far more suitable for Belgian grips

I trained professionally for several years. When you say "as a lot of people like to do" in regards to putting tape on your handle... I literally NEVER saw a single person in my entire fencing studio do that, regardless of which style they fenced. I have no idea who taught you that, but that is absolutely not typical practice. Good luck finding an Olympian who does it.

Do you recommend to cut the noze of the grip to have thumb tip, and index knuckle resting on the pad?

Is this also true for epee? Always used the middle of my finger

im going to try that today

Does it also apply to epee ?

wow love the superimposition piece

That's me! Thanks for the response. To continue the discussion, are you saying that Macchi had started his "take over" too slowly after the search, or do you have issue with the withheld blade after the takeover making it seem like he isn't committing as much as Cheung? Or is it the fact you don't see macchi as "avoiding" the search at all?

I would be hesitant to call an evasion attack that crosses lines a search (unless against PIL). I've heard FIE directors say "I will not PRESCRIBE the path your tip must take to the target..."