Excuse my ignorance, but is it ok for his foot to lift for a moment from the end of the strip (the blue part)? In my mind that would be out but I'm not familiar with the exact rule
Lifting is fine so long as the foot is not behind the line. It's often advised not to though because from the angle the ref is at it can look like you're out when you're not
@@XandrestarX I fully agree with @Slicer Sabre. Another way to describe it is 'on the strip' is defined to mean having (part of) a foot within the volume above the strip. It seems counter-intuitive but works because we want fencers to be able to use the full length of the strip and change direction and you don't want to punish a fencer whose back foot is behind the end line but has their whole body over the strip and lifts their front foot to move forwards. Oh just has the athleticism to take advantage of that rule definition to the extreme. Arguably it would easier to ref (especially in an environment where we don't have video) if we instead said anything grounded beyond the end of the strip is off. It would be much easier to see definitively, but effectively shortens the usable length of strip by a lot.
The second time the refresh gave me this video. I wonder how did the Koreans train? Or is their performance (mainly of Oh, Gu or Kim) just out of talents, or there is something special about their training that let them do 4m lunges? I hope I can have that athleticism as I fence :)
The athleticism of Ota with the height of an NBA player... clearly the sabreurs must have been sinning, otherwise god would not have sent them this kind of punishment lol
I have thought only some of shorter Korean fencing player are incredibly faster than European players until I saw this guy. Wtf!!! He is fucking tall and why he is so fucking fast???!!!!!
The more I watch this lad the more I believe he has the potential to be the GOAT of sabre fencing. His physical skills are undeniable, he just needs to get his mental game under control.
As a korean I'm happy Oh is doing amazing. Even though he uses special moves like these I love how he scores so many points simply with his hugeeeee lunge.
That last clip is a perfect example of why the flying lunge works so well. They just don't expect it, and their body goes into panic mode because big heavy thing accelerates towards them from above
Very nice video 👏🏼👏🏼!! As a former foilist/current epeeist sometimes it's hard for me to follow a sabre match or understand the actions, so I appreciate a lot the slow time and the explanations in this type of clips 😊😊 1:16 and maaan, WTF, I wish I could do that 🙉
Me: *never shown an interest in fencing in my entire life beyond track and field 2 on the NES* Yt algorithm: “let me show you some fencing videos.” Me: OMOSHIROI !
I know this attack isn't as viable anymore since the FIE scrapped the RBOD, but Oh had those amazing step lunges against Gu in Gyor. It neutralized some of the pulls Gu attempted.
This requires no skill. I’m a true natural athlete. One year of me training in this so called “sport” I would dominate the so called “professionals.” I have never seen one athletic fencer.
@SB. Years of form would still make them dominate if they were not athletic, but sorry for you these dudes are extremely athletic, ironically in some places more than most athletes. The legs on these dudes are insane, and also even funnier these dudes are in the video are basically all athletic all around. Get fucked random dude.
It's really not helpful in a sport that is down to the milisecond when the screen overlay shows green before the player even made his hit. I couldn't figure out what the heck was going on at 1:59 then realised the screen overlay was signalling green at least half a second before the score display in the footage went green. Is the screen overlay psychic?
I like nothing about Oh Songuk. He is just too tall, too fast and too dumb. Look how Szilagy debunks him. Oh Songuk just attacks like a true idiot, and ca 85 % of other frases he loses. He's been a disaster to the sabre fencing in general, and it took too long for the opponents to call him to shorter distances, where he is close to zero.
@@SlicerSabre All right. Yet, in my age of 62 I still can commit a parré-repost from pos. 2-6, although not that fast any more, I admit. Pre - allez - ! Let's meet on the piste? 🙂
@@raoulkurvitz6305 Sorry I was a bit coarse, but if you don't see Oh's brilliance then you simply aren't watching properly. You claim Szilagyi has debunked him yet Oh has beaten Szilagyi more than he has lost to him. There are many fencers as tall and even taller than Oh, yet none of them can move as sharply as he does. If Oh attacks like an idiot then I can't begin to imagine what you think of the fencers who he beats
@@SlicerSabre 😀 Ok, I was quite coarse about Oh as well; I apologize; please don't take my "critique" too seriously. It's amazing actually, what the Koreans have been doing, and your video show's Oh's brilliancy as well, without any doubt. His paré-repost from 4th at 0:49 is fantastic, for example and many more. I love your chaņnel, I just found it! 🙂
The leg muscles used in this alone will have you going wtf at most fencers if you had actual basic health knowledge, let alone realized how he is even doing this. Dude you probably are unathletic as fuck compared to these dudes, they all are extremely athletic at this level, these aren’t fat old men who stand around rubbing blades, they are all athletes.
