From time to time visioning has been mentioned in this blog, so it is time to review and add to what we know about this skill. Visioning is imagining the situation, the techniques and tactics, the opponent, the strip, and your and your opponent’s actions. Visioning is commonly used by…
QUESTION – what are the three standard hand positions applicable to all weapons? ANSWER – pronation (fingernails down), supination (fingernails up), and middle (thumb up)
QUESTION – what are the zones of the strip? ANSWER – the box between the on guard lines, the two maneuvering areas between the box and the warning area, and the two warning areas.
I have addressed distance a number of times over the years in this blog. Today I am going to summarize my current thinking and suggest how distance interfaces with tactics. First – distance is often defined in terms of how far one fencer is from another on the piste. The…
QUESTION – what are the basic parries in each weapon? And what lines do they defend? ANSWER – FOIL AND EPEE – 6th outside high line, 4th inside high line, 7th inside low line, 8th outside low line ANSWER – SABRE – 3rd outside high line, 5th head and high…
New dates for the 2020 Tokyo Olympics – 23 July to 8 August 2021. New dates for the 2020 Tokyo Paralympics – 24 August to 5 September 2021. USA Fencing has extended its insurance blackout for clubs through 20 April 2020. Based on this date Salle Green will remain closed…
In modern fencing we typically classify fencing actions as offense, defense, and counteroffense. The objective of offense is to hit – it includes the simple and compound attacks, the attacks on the blade and takings of the blade, the riposte, and the renewals of the attack. Defense attempts to prevent…
QUESTION – what are the five distances? ANSWER – Out of Distance, Long Distance (Advance Lunge Distance), Medium Distance (Lunge Distance), Short Distance (Extension Distance), In-Fighting Distance We now have a catechism page with all of the previous catechism questions at the Salle Green Catechism.
If you have been around fencing for any length of time, you have heard a specific action, let’s say a disengage, described as either a strategy, tactic, or technique. Two of the three choices here for a disengage are wrong. Do you know which ones? If you have been around…
While we are closed, we will be running distance training for our members on the following weekly schedule: Monday – Catechism question of the week e-mailed to all members. Wednesday – home training assignment with a specific skill to work on and detailed instructions on how to execute the skill…