Excellent analysis! I love the realization and awareness of how you became complacent for his third point. That is extremely insightful and hard to recognize. I also agree with your end analysis of putting pressure and using your offense as defense. When you weren't threatening with your tip you got squashed. When you were threatening with the tip you were not only very dangerous, but also successful. Would love to see a recap video of how the whole tournament went for you, where you break down each match and the lessons you took away. Much love, thanks for sharing.
Really interesting, and I like your candid commentary, especially regarding getting winded during the pool bout. It happens to everyone at some point (definitely for me!), and it's great to hear about that sort of thing even at the highest levels. Thanks for putting this together
Thank you!, one of my goals is for people who watch my stuff to know exactly where im coming from, both in terms of experience and as just my overall level. I found while making this to be abit of look back and a mini debrief to myself.
Great video. However, I notice that there are some french grip fencers who don't add a lot of pressure and attack only when opponents advance too close(attack in prep). So is this a plausible strategy?
Absolutely, if anything attack in prep is what I was lacking this bout. What would keep him from preparing as much as he did is being a little bit more proactive on his preps, Even if the defense doesn't seem so active the threat should always be there! Lucenay does this quite well.
@@GPFencing I used single lunges to attack in prep and defeated a much better fencer at my club. However, when he learned what I did and began to throw out fleches without prep I was totally fried. I pommel so that I cannot parry. Should I put my blade in place high like Grumier to be ready to counterattack? S
@@xincheli6422 If he is getting straight fleches without prep, you are likely to close. Try to vary you distance and find what causes the fleche. Even if you are pommeling you should still be able to do one parry in case of trouble!
I wish I had it recorded, I was actually eyeing that match while another Canadian was doing his DE, The match was super tight, Pizzo was so mad after losing that he rolled his mask across the floor like a bowling ball
