How To Counter Attack In Foil Fencing 

Finally a yt channel that makes tutorials to help fencers become better.

Can you make more foil videos? These are really helpful

Really really good video and that part about why you are searching for the blade and then recognising when to go is so spot on. Something I hadn't thought about but certainly will now!

I love the slow mo step by step explanations you do here!!! I enjoy watching bouts for fun, but when I want to watch to learn how to do something better or not do something it is so hard to pinpoint anything because bouts move so fast. My son started Fencing a year ago and used your workouts daily, and now that I have joined him I get to see first hand why he would always go to your videos for drills and help to learn more:) Thank you so much for all the time and effort you put into your videos!!! I would love to see more of these slow mo explanations for really anything with fencing:) Real bouts and breaking them down is so helpful for me to understand and then practice for myself how to do or not do things:)

Anyone seeking to become a master of defense should start with this video. Well done

These are terrific videos, I love them so much, thank you for sharing

Thank you so much for your videos! I started foil fencing lessons last year and this has helped me a lot.🤺⚔

Thank you so much for this video. I use a lot of counter attacks but now I see that I made a lof of mistakes so I can learn a lot from this video. Thank you!

Best video yet, you explain do well, thanks!

Thank you for this thorough explanation of counter attacks! Sometimes these theoretical discussions are lacking during fencing practice, so it's great that I can catch up on it here!

I keep getting hit by marching attacks so this is great advice. I will try it tonight. Thanks for the tips!

Just want to say thanks and great work. I am just getting back into fencing after 15 years and have many bad habits and have forgotten a great deal, so these videos really help.

This is a brilliant video, a huge help! Now I recognise why my counter attacks sometimes work and sometimes don’t! Thanks so much for taking the time and effort to make this.

Beautiful explained

Thank you, your videos are very helpful.

Thank you for these videos! Good fencing videos are hard to come by. The fencing community benefits from your quality and up to date work.

And has lots of informational !!!

Thanks buddy for the video and please post the videos of foil regularly

Could you do a vid on defensive measures for sabre? Great work!

you are good bro very helpful for me... 😍😘 thank you

Can you please share videos with all the parries for foil in detail

please post more video About foil 😍

Can you make a few more counter attack samples for different blade positions from the opponent?

1. component's point not on me 2. timing just right on component stepping forward 3. left shoulder away component and stepping back leg behind, hand down to block the touch after a counter-attack

Informative video, thanks, but try to improve its quality, especially in slow mo, to make possible see blades!

If the foil has a system of right o wayf, meaning the attack has priority over the counter-attack and the parry repose has priority over the attack. If a fencer point is not threading the target, as you stated his point was nowhere close to the target, then how can it be parried, thus how can it be an attack. If an attack loses priority by being parried, then the person being attacked has to have something to parry in order to gain priority. If you are coming forward and your point is not threading the opponent's target then that is preparing to attack. In most other combat sports and real life. If you talk or run up to someone with your weapon(fist,gun or anything ) not on target and you get hit.

Hey coach how can a saber fencer improve his precision with the blade?

Who gets the point when you parry the attack and your risposte missed and the oponents attack arrived after your parry?

Any concern about getting penalized for turning your back on your opponent during that spinning motion?

I have only have problems with this from the skills I’ve learnt Update: August 25th Still can’t do it, I’m still trying tho Update 2: may 14,2022 Getting closer, still bad at the timing

这种天气就像个性 不是这样！！

This is an amazing video but how can this apply when you are left handed? Because when an left handed fencer does an counter attack by pivoting on the left leg it exposes the back too much.

Jonathan from China

1. Counter attacks should not be talked about as reactive, reactive counter attacks are subject to anyone who sets a trap for the counter attack to happen. 2. Does not talk about half steps at all, which you clearly did a half step back in the first counter attack you accomplished. That is a crucial part when stepping up counter attacks 3. You didn't touch upon time and steps it takes to execute an actions and allow for a counter attack. This video doesn't focus enough on crucial parts of the set ups.

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HI!

Coach Tyler - I have a contention with what you're terming a "counter attack." Given that the rule book defines an attack by the presentation of a threat (the movement, offensively, of the blade away from the fencer towards the opponent, and that confers right-of-way), the first example of counter attack that you present here is more precisely AN ATTACK. At its most loose determination, it's an attack into preparation. Your opponent never established a threat with the blade, just advanced toward you, arm always bent, never even beginning to extend. Your second example definitionally IS a counter attack, as your extension/attack is in response to your opponent's, IF a Director regards the footwork during the lunge as the initiator of the threat (and as mentioned earlier), not the blade. Even you comment on your opponent's having pulled the weapon arm BACK during his action. Pulling the weapon arm back towards the body is NOT an offensive action, and cannot be regarded as such, so the end effect is that your opponent was, however briefly, just lunging towards you with no threat, and you hit him for it. It seems like one can go gallumping down the strip, and if the blade is located anywhere in front of the feet, that's now viewed as the "attack" - I suppose for it to be seen as obviously NOT an attack, one would either have to point the blade backwards, or drag it along the strip while advancing. Please produce a video explaining the current / "modern" determination of where the "attack" begins and when right-of-way is gained.

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Why title is not Riposte?

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That's really shitty fencing.