@Htun Naung It s not if you step back. You have to literally imagine this is real sword otherwise it is a marker/ pen trying to write/ draw on your "opponent" pfff
It is all in one - promotional, educational and a beautiful piece of visual art! Ota, you are doing great service to the sport of fencing! Your fencing is also excellent. Best of luck at the Olympics!
For the most part, both of those are a lot slower than this. Not because of lower skill or whatever, they're just trying to emulate a different type of fighting. Defence is a lot more important in HEMA for example, where the idea is mostly to not die. Sports fencing is all about getting that hit, it doesn't matter so much if your opponent could still cut your head off a second later.
@@RegnumUmaril HEMA is still a lot like sport fencing, it is still about getting that first hit. In HEMA tournaments exchanges tend to initiate about as quickly as this and tend to result in one or both people being hit. This is not inherent to the nature of swordfighting though as can be seen by the guys over on the holmganghamburg channel. With the actual risk of injury from hits and mentality much more like that of actually fighting, it takes a lot longer for someone to be hit. They fight more intelligently and responsibly being much more precise with distance, footwork for example. It isn't because they don't swing at each other, if you have a look for yourself you will see there's many more exchanges than you would see in HEMA. They're just much more responsible in their attacking. The fights over there much more resemble other types of duels or scheduled fights from non licensed bareknuckle boxing fights to professional MMA and anything in between.
@@ranaoblivious2122 skill issue its easy to make a touch for your opponent, so it should be for u too and for that reason plus priority rules, sabre is more physically demanding and intense than both of the other 2 weapons
Finally a way to share the experience of fencing without have ever fenced before. I hate to see many nagative comments In other videos from people who can't even follow what's happening. I always said fencing it's a sport you must do to be able to enjoy watching, yet this guys did it. It would be so cool if in the future holograms could be proyected alongside each action, for the audience as well as the referees.
@@jasonalen7459 basically making something seem like it's cultural. Like watching sports. Generally watching sports is taught and not something people actually enjoyed. Specifically in the US is football and basketball, it's so overly promoted that everyone has to talk about it and watch so they seem social and relevant with the times even if they don't even enjoy the sport. It's faking it til you make it.
Videos like this make me chuckle a bit. No one except fencers know the rules for fencing as it’s a background sport. So most videos of fencing is stuff like “How to fencing” or “How fencing works”. Olympics is fun too, the announcers are describing what’s going on for the people at home.
Very nice video and great way to show of some amazing hits. Favourite has to be the circular parry into a jump flick onto the back. One day I will be able to do this, one day!
Bit of both looking at it. As the guy on the right prepares to attack, guy on the left moves his blade in a sort of circular motion (though not in the conventional sense). Either way was a sweet hit!
Likewise. Caught my opponent with a sweet flick to his shoulder as I attacked. What blade do you use? I am currently using marraging steel but will be buying a BF soon.
Yuki Ota, silver medalist at Beijing Olympics, presenter of this video, has long said he wants more people to be interested in fencing and wants to make fencing a major sport in Japan. And four years ago, this video showed me interests of fencing in Japanese. I’m happy to watch this video again. At the same time, I’m sad to see so many English-speaking people watching this video just to mock Engrish.
This makes Amuro and Char's final fight of the One Year War hit home a lot harder. Couple of inches either way, one of our boys would've been left cold in the depths of A Baoa Qu.
