The #9, steal step lunge is one of my personal favorites for the first move you make, 9 times outa 10 your opponent is fully focused on your face and won’t notice you slowly bring your back foot to your front, then as soon as the match starts do a big explosive lunge. If you don’t score immediately you put them in a defensive mental state
I have been doing kendo for many years. Thinking about trying fencing. Do you do kendo? If so was it helpful for your fencing? Or was it hard to adjust styles?
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By adding variety it can throw an opponent off as to what your intentions are. Each of these attacks came at a slightly different speed and distance. The timing is also different. Excellent fencers get clued up to what you are doing break fast. By adding slight changes it might make you stay ahead of the match.
I do think it’s fun to watch, but when explaining it, you should emphasize that none of these hits are registered as attacks. This means they obtain you no priority. This doesn’t make them less viable in terms of options when it’s unexpected by your opponent. The one where you jump in place does signal and would put your opponent on guard, but you might look into countering an attack on the preparation, which is interesting, as silly as a jump in place may look. A silly but valid hit is equally valid as an impressive valid hit and it would be wrong to say otherwise. All of what’s demonstrated would only land you a scored hit if the opponent doesn’t hit you. The key being that on foil you don’t stretch the arm in the lunge but before the lunge, when stepping during the step in the same fencing time as the full step. (Check the differences with Sabre, where the stretching commences before the lunge and you hit either with or before the stretching of the arm.) Every beginning of an attack should also be countered, so if you step forward stretching the arm in the step and hitting at the end of a step, that’s actually a proper conventional attack. Stretching the arm in the lunge, although you might do it in the same length fencing time as that of a full step, conventionally is a mistake, because your arm is then stretched at the end of the lunge, which is a long half step and as such not in the same time as a full fencing step forward. You need to make the time for it to exist by executing the full action. Maybe change the title from “attack” to “hit disregarding conventions?”
I think that you are not up to date concerning the conventions and kinda ignorant. You are talking to Eli SCHENKEL, one of the top 100 fencers in the world. It's kinda cringe.
@@emilehobohe conventions haven’t changed since the 50’s but the way they are being interpreted is wildly different. There is a huge emphasis on who’s advancing. The one advancing automatically gets the attack’s initiative. The bending of the arm doesn’t matter as much as before. Just watch any world cup tbh.
@@kebbesan When I watch a world cup and someone actually bothers to stretch the arm and hit the target also, they do automatically get the hit. The fact that people don't stretch their arm doesn't mean you don't get the priority of the hit when you do.
@@emilehobo I’d be curious to see just one touch given like that AND with no point in line ofc, and that’s not at the aller with both fencers charging at each other.
