Watch Olympic Silver Medalist Daryl Homer School Us In Saber Fencing

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We visited Olympic silver medalist Daryl Homer at his home gym in midtown Manhattan, where he demonstrated some core fencing concepts, as well as the flashier “flunge”-or the flying lunge.
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@arjunswayamkumar2507 5 лет назад

ahhh all my instincts are screaming 'MASK MASK!'

@fionatsang9353 4 года назад

Recently I had private lessons with a Maestro d'Arme and he had me practicing doing lighter sabre cuts to his bare head, freaked me the heck out XC

@pogmumu3765 2 года назад

me too the fkin anxiety i get from it

@Chaztelchannel 3 года назад

Daryl: *gives specific instructions on how to salut before a bout* Me and my team: *does a bunch of random flourishes to be dramatic*

@nikolaslavov3498 5 лет назад

I'd totally love to hangout with Homer

@henrymob2651 5 лет назад

Nikola Slavov gfy

@semi-relatablerants3964 7 лет назад

It is amusing to watch newbies fence

@Macarite 7 лет назад

painful*

@stephenlin6481 7 лет назад

Lol, its funny too xD

@mertgokce7332 6 лет назад

But it's entertaining to watch someone getting better at something isn't it?

@RedDragonplays 5 лет назад

Very cringeworthy

@brettlee6211 5 лет назад

Well, everyone has to start somewhere...

@paulbacchus1015 4 года назад

I have just taken up Fencing love the sport and these Vids are pure goldust, very helpful. Paul Bacchus esq

@kendrapooler2468 6 лет назад

he’s so freaking adorable 😭

@kushgroover54 4 года назад

Im not gay but I second this, Daryl seems like such a sweet person too

@markuslebt 7 лет назад

after the interview, she cleaned his "saber".

@cashewwalnut3589 5 лет назад

Damn right she did

@SMCho-oi1gg 5 лет назад

I bet he lost that bout 15-0

@fionatsang9353 4 года назад

Acetone bath and a light sand with emery should keep the rust off it ;P

@tomsmith5216 3 года назад

Daryl us really really good. Allez Daryl!!

@dancepants3399 5 лет назад

Used to go to that same club

@qbizzy37 3 месяца назад

I start next month. I want the gold. I’ll do whatever training necessary to do so

@chengjun8468 6 лет назад

Sabre is like bam and you get one point

@SwordTune 6 лет назад

Wrong. It's BAM and two people start trying their best to shred their vocal chords to ribbon. Then the director calls it a simultaneous action.

@matemindak384 5 лет назад

yeah you are 100% right........ if you wanna lose 0-15 that's all you have to do

@RedDragonplays 5 лет назад

Good job, I can tell you are an epeeist or foilist, at least we don't spend 30 minutes waiting for our opponent to take a step forward. Sabre is far more complex than you think

@aquafine.2250 2 года назад

@@SwordTune LMFAOOO this is so true

@thefencingman 6 лет назад

Hey everyone! I really like Olympic fencing and I would like to solve any problems in fencing. Can you guys help me out and tell me any problems you have, anything from drills, mindset, footwork, tactics, etc?

@nikolaslavov3498 5 лет назад

Sorry for the late answer, anyway 1: How to NOT use strenght in a strike, cuz I often end up hurting my opponent 2: Mindset tips would be appreciated, I want to become good enough to go to competitions and I know it is really important Thanks in advance

@astral9022 5 лет назад

Nikola Slavov okay, I’m assuming you play saber so I’ll answer your questions. It’s actually fine to use strength with your attacks just don’t pump your arm for momentum while attacking. Like I don’t know if you’re fencing little kids or something because nobody d1 really gets hurt over strength unless you seriously hurt them. Usually little kids that are 13 or under get hurt or look like they are in pain for just like hitting their legs. And for mindset I don’t really think I can help you with that. You should always get someone to record your matches and go over them with your coach and analyze the videos. Don’t use to many actions on the line and try to perfect the basics.

@astral9022 5 лет назад

Nathaniel T how do you train to get faster in fencing. Do you do a lot of footwork or strength training?

@nikolaslavov3498 5 лет назад

Thanks for your answer, and Yes, a lot, a lot of footwork, to the point where it gets boring just to do it, especially slow basic steps. And strenght training is somewhat rare, you don't need too much power, the hits are bullet fast but they feel like slaps

@wickedwonderland9831 5 лет назад

@@nikolaslavov3498 the strength issue usually disappears as you gain more control in your techniques. Try checking your grip during a bout. Beginners tend to just grip it to hard and not do the thumb - index finger- palm thing when actually fencing. Training to use smaller, more controlled motions (like with ripostes) in general also helps.

@alexandralim3381 5 лет назад

When they say saber instead of sabre

@mylosgaffney8987 3 года назад

@Shin ObiThey're talking about the title.

@huadoesstuff Год назад

americans say saber

@cashewwalnut3589 5 лет назад

Reminds me of tosin abasi

@jobusby8462 3 года назад

Yaas Queen

@BucketListBadass 6 лет назад

I sense chemistry between those 2. Wonder what happened afterwards?

@chiwakdavidpowell6615 5 лет назад

you think so much

@madesimple4690 2 года назад

He definitely smashed

@raymondkoren2113 6 лет назад

I had heard that the reasoning behind waist down not being a target is the idea that on a horse striking the legs doesn't really do anything. Can any practitioner of sport fencing confirm or deny this belief?

@esgrimaxativa5175 6 лет назад

That's a myth that was created sometime in the 60's. Collegiate saber fencing in the U.S. still had the groin (like in foil) as a valid target area until I believe up until the 30's. The no leg attacks has more to deal with the fact that the modern game comes from lightweight dueling sabers which would do very little to the leg and that attacking there opens your head even if you manage to land the hit there. So they got rid of it, but up until the early 20th century a lot saber systems used leg attacks.

@SwordTune 6 лет назад

+Raymond Koren Yes and no. Fencing has many different forms that led up to the development of modern sport fencing, particularly with sabre. This is due to the fact that while rapier and smallsword dominated the world of thrust, with which epee and foil are based on, there are a wide range of cut and thrust weapons that borrow the same techniques. From the 13th century onward, we see some similarities in German sword and buckler, falchion, and messer fighting. I've examined digital scans of much later highlands broadsword, which is indeed meant for mounted combat but has grounded application as well. Of course, that doesn't include the long history of the English backsword, polish sabre, and bolognese side sword. These forms allow cuts to the leg, but throughout history, we can see that leg cuts are rare, even unpopular. Attacking so low exposes the much more vulnerable head, and in the case of highlands broadsword and cavalry sabre, the horse is the fighter's legs, so their own have much less need to be protected.

@hwahwa3347 4 года назад

flunge doesnt mean flying lunge it means fleshing lunge. or a flesh lunge. to flesh is something from epee where you cross your feet

@turbolynn 4 года назад

hwa hwa it’s flash not flesh

@PXCharon 4 года назад

Fleche. French for arrow. Which used to be permitted in all three modern disciplines, but as forward passing steps were banned from saber in the 90s, the flunge was created to replace the original technique while remaining legal.

@AleGluck90 2 года назад

@@PXCharon fleche is allowed in epee

@jarrarwinks8470 Год назад

It’s from flying lunge, mainly because the original flunge you landed in a lunge but it started similar to current flunge, but after the no crossing rule eventually the current flunge was what was used more often.

@voobtoob 2 года назад

Flunge??? I thought that was a fleche???

@You-fools 2 года назад

no fleche allowed in sabre, it's a flunge (fleche-lunge) since you lunge, then launch off your front foot without crossing your fet.

@YASHDHURVE25 6 лет назад

Parry video

@YASHDHURVE25 6 лет назад

Good class in fencing

@joeypierantonis7576 3 года назад

All I can see is I poke in the eye..

@broskino2756 7 лет назад

Please not the dancing hotdog song

@krunkja 4 года назад

from 0:00 Hungarians forever

@zahirniamen1397 6 лет назад

They’re sabres not rapiers

@secutorprimus 5 лет назад

They're much narrower than real sabres, so they're close enough

@wickedwonderland9831 5 лет назад

@@secutorprimus That's not the point. It's a modern sabre. A sports weapon with the name sabre.

@secutorprimus 5 лет назад

@@wickedwonderland9831 in usage, because of the extremely narrow blade, they are much more rapierlike than most historical sabres.

@lewribaedi5997 5 лет назад

@@secutorprimus do you even know what a rapier looks like? The fencing sabre is much much closer to the dueling sabres of the Renaissance era and even to infantry sabres than to any rapiers.

@secutorprimus 5 лет назад

@@lewribaedi5997 Yes, I know, I don't think you read my comment. I said that they are close ENOUGH to rapiers in usage to be the closest analogue within sport fencing to a rapier. It is essentially a narrow cut and thrust blade on a protective, complex hilt. Given these core features of the modern Olympic sabre only, these are common features found on rapiers. I did not say that these swords were, in actuality, rapiers. Now, the swords that these are closest in design to are late period early modern Italian duelling sabres, not sabres of the Renaissance, which is where the modern style originates from. And, no, very few infantry sabres were so narrow and light. There were swords called spadroons which had light, narrow, cut and thrust blades set onto relatively complex hilts, however, which had its peak in the 1700s. Now you seem like you've done some preliminary research, which I applaud you for, but I would just like to remind you: your keyboard is not an effective weapon.

@jessicafb5398 4 года назад

He should be showing her from the same side...she has to transform what he's doing in her mind as a newby... he's not even mirroring for her or showing her side by side.

@jessicafb5398 4 года назад

He seems nice but has poor social awareness lol...picking her up, pretending to slice her throat..lawd

@tibormolnar6074 3 года назад

Rossz nézni az egészet. Hogy fogja csajszi a kardot?! Vívóállás szűk. Kitörés röhelyes. Ez nem 5 perc, hanem 5 év gyakorlás, mire vívásra hasonlít a dolog. Stb., stb.

@stanleyyelnats9310 5 лет назад

I thought I was watching saber stuff not rapier stuff

@matthewpham9525 4 года назад

You’re watching saber I can guarantee you

@funnysecksnumber6998 3 года назад

i mean, technically, veteran olympic fencers are newbie fencers irl the term fencing has been taken so far away from its real meaning, just so you know, when im referring to "fencing" im referring to actual sword fighting, not electric tag with shiny sticks. the best way to get impaled impaling your opponent or die killing your oppenent is to do an olympic lunge. even for an olympic lung, you have the weirdest lunge. just extend your leg man, you dont have to overcomplicate things. a real fencing lunge is just that, extending your back leg, catching with the front leg, and recovering from it by pushing off and going back to your neutral stance by pushing off backwards with your front leg. this type of footwork is called a lunge & recover system. the second you remove recovery, its stops being a real sword fight. youre holding sharp bars of steel, not magic insta-kill wands, so you have to give the sword rotation to be able to cut. that extension of the arm simply isnt a cut. if you want to learn real sabre fencing, go practice military sabre. this is just a fun little game, its only about competition and nothing else. it has no ground to hold. this is why so little people pick up olympic fencing. they advertise it as swordsmanship, but you realise a couple minutes later, its really just tag with extra steps.

@You-fools 2 года назад

real fencing is a pointless term, fencing developed from practice for actual duels until they realized that there was no reason to harm other people for a duel and they could just use the practice weapons. There is pretty much no practical use for real fencing expertise in modern peacetime society, the skills learned through sport fencing are just as valuable to you as "real" fencing, except one is extremely well developed and reliable while the other was thrown together by people who were offended that a violent act developed into a peaceful respect based sport.

@jarrarwinks8470 Год назад

Olympic lunge as you put it was really used in actual combat, also since you probably do hema most hema fencers have shit footwork, and sometimes even shit bladework, but often times it’s good. Also, they often times aren’t athletic enough to even teach good footwork, also ironically one of the reason the lunge is now being treated as useless by them.

@funnysecksnumber6998 Год назад

@@You-fools fencing used to mean actual sword fighting, and degraded over time into what we know as fencing

@funnysecksnumber6998 Год назад

@@jarrarwinks8470 no, a combat lunge is much more balanced and conservative. an olympic lunge is throwing yourself in with absolutely everything you have. also looks like my understanding of the lunge was limited at the time of writing this. you use your weight to recover from the lunge, not by pushing off with the front leg. point is, the lunging position for combat fencing is a balanced stance, and its valid to fight from. meanwhile the sport fencing lunge is basically something you cant recover from when you commit to it. one is how you exchange, the other is what you do when you decide to end the bout.

@You-fools Год назад

@@funnysecksnumber6998 you say degraded, I say evolved. There just isn't widespread sword fighting in the world nowadays. This sport is incredibly elegant, safe, fascinating and deep in its intricacy. This modern version displays the finesse, creativity and mastery of a form of sword fighting without putting people at risk.