R4G1NG Video Response | Fencing Attack in Preparation Explanation

So as not to reuse footage from last week's video, please check out this selection of attack in prep/attack-no-attack calls from the 2024 Olympic MF gold-medal match.
Basically, some argue that left immediately 'takes over' after right's search. I argue that there were moments in the match where they did, but not in the first simultaneous hit shown in last week's video. With attempt 3, which is the closest to that final call in my opinion, we see right pull with a compound attack, but this pull causes right's search to miss, rather than pulling for no reason.
Regarding R4G1NG's comment, the truest form of taking over the pusher's attack would be a derobement, where the defending side actually avoids the blade with the hit (disengagement) rather than a pull into a step lunge. The whole point of these videos and the fact that people can argue the touch leads us to believe a different action should have been performed to avoid ambiguity (hence why we think that the first simultaneous call was a valid one).
Let us know your thoughts in the comments below!

[@OlympicFoil]

wow love the superimposition piece

[@R4G1NG]

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?

[@s-class8871]

I think in the final example in this video, he withholds the blade to avoid the search, while in the other examples he reacts to Cheung's search by taking over with the feet *then withholding the blade*. By withholding it *for no reason* (without the opponent searching) he gives up right of way in the case of a direct attack.
Basically, the rules state the arm is what governs the attack, not just fast legs. So to answer your initial inquiry, if Left had performed a derobement rather than a pulling compound attack, that would actually be him "taking over" in the quickest possible time.
Tl;dr: to attack in prep (or take advantage of an opponent's missed search, you must anticipate the search, not react to it). The only time reacting to it works is in the case of a really large search, like the second example in this video.

[@s-class8871]

Unrelated, but I appreciate your use of 1337speak