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Home Fencing Actions Archive by category "Counteroffense"

Category: Counteroffense

201011 A New Approach – Part 5

Premise 6: If the opponent’s blade is occupying the line you wish to attack (including the riposte) or counterattack, you have two choices. The first is to get to critical distance, the distance at which you can hit before the opponent can react, and then attack with a one-tempo action.…

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Walter Green 11 Oct 2020 11 Oct 2020Counteroffense, Defense, Fencing Actions, Offense, Strategy and Tactics

200816 Syncopation

How can you defeat an opponent? How can an opponent defeat you? There are a number of possibilities: (1) be faster, (2) be stronger, (3) be better known (yes, your reputation is worth touches in tight situations), (4) be taller, (5) have longer arms, (6) be more flexible, (7) know…

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Walter Green 16 Aug 2020 30 Aug 2020Counteroffense, Defense, Fencing Actions, Footwork, Offense, Strategy and Tactics

200802 One Tempo, Two Tempo, Three Tempo, etc., etc.

Recently a colleague (Chuck Alexander, a Prevot and very accomplished epee fencer) sent me a slide deck to review and comment on. As I read through the slides, I realized that it was perhaps important to review in this blog some thoughts on tempo and distance. First let me postulate…

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Walter Green 2 Aug 2020 2 Aug 2020Counteroffense, Defense, Fencing Actions, Footwork, Offense, Strategy and Tactics

200719 A Deeper Dive into the Counteroffensive

In a previous post I provided an overview of counteroffensive actions. I think it may be worthwhile to delve deeper into the subject and look at how we can rationalize their use in the context of not giving the opponent the opportunity to score. First, lets look at the timeline…

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Walter Green 19 Jul 2020 19 Jul 2020Counteroffense, Fencing Actions, Strategy and Tactics

200712 Three Actions -Riposte, Stop hit, Remise

So to start thinking about these three actions, our first question is what are they? The textbook definitions are: RIPOSTE – a riposte is the attack delivered by a fencer who has been attacked and successfully parries. I would add to this that the parry may be by blade or…

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Walter Green 12 Jul 2020 12 Jul 2020Counteroffense, Fencing Actions, Offense, Strategy and Tactics

200621 Counteroffense

The term “counteroffense” describes actions taken to hinder or defeat an opponent’s attack. The term sounds very broad. However, it is generally interpreted to mean actions that are counterattacks into an opponent’s attack with the simple first intention to disrupt and score on that attack. When we define counteroffense in…

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Walter Green 21 Jun 2020 21 Jun 2020Counteroffense, Strategy and Tactics

This Week’s Catechism Question

QUESTION – what is preparation? ANSWER – any actions taken to create the conditions for a successful final action of an attack or counterattack

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Walter Green 22 Apr 2020 22 Apr 2020Counteroffense, Fencing Actions, Offense, Strategy and Tactics

200329 The Idea of Defense

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…

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Walter Green 29 Mar 2020 29 Mar 2020Counteroffense, Defense, Fencing Actions, Offense, Strategy and Tactics

200119 Thinking About Envelopes

Envelopes come in all sorts of shapes and sizes and are used to convey a wide variety of things. In this post we are talking about envelopes in fencing, specifically your tactical envelope, what it is made of, and how it is used. The concept of a tactical envelope is…

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Walter Green 22 Jan 2020 21 Mar 2020Counteroffense, Defense, Fencing Actions, Footwork, Offense, Strategy and Tactics

190721 What Do You Need To Know?

Fencing is a complicated sport. There is a lot to know – the current United States edition of the Rule Book runs to 210 pages, the Athlete’s Handbook another 143. Surely we should know all those rules and procedures? The history of the sport is long and rich. Shouldn’t we…

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Walter Green 22 Jul 2019 23 Jul 2019Counteroffense, Defense, Fencing Actions, Footwork, Offense, Training
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