Men's Foil Semi-final at the Shanghai Grand Prix between Richard Kruse (GBR) and Andrea Cassara (ITA). Pable Acevedo is the referee at the Westgate Shopping Mall in the Jiag An district of the city.
Watch GBR team match from London 2012 where they fought Italy, Kruse was yelling for joy in that one whenever he got a really good hit. Yes he doesn't often do it but he will if he feels it. Watch his bout with Cassara from Rio as well.
@@graemehart8917 Cool lil fact too: Cassara often goes to London to train at the Leon Paul fencing centre with the british team too when he's not training with his Italian teammates. So these two have trained together many times as well.
as by doing that you give your opponent room to move out of the way from your attack, or step back with the parry. Better to push them to the back line where they have little room to manoeuvre.
Left-hander's generally stay on the left as it makes it more awkward for right-handers. The ref should start them off in the middle - he was remiss in this fight for not doing so.
14:01 - have the foil rules on "attack no" suddenly changed? I feel like attacks like these have been typically called in favour of the attacker in recent years... calls of this nature in this competition certainly seem a bit harsher against the attacker. I'm not saying it's a bad thing, but it certainly looks different to what calls in recent years have been.
