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Home Fencing Actions Archive by category "Defense"

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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

200614 The Parry – A Survey

The parry is a complex activity that can be described in a number of ways. Barbasetti defined the parry conceptually as an action which is aimed to defeat the opponent’s attack. That has come to be interpreted as a specific family of blade actions – blade contact by the blade…

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Walter Green 21 Jun 2020 21 Jun 2020Defense, Fencing Actions, Offense, Strategy and Tactics

This Week’s Catechism Question

(18) Question – what does the parry prepare? ANSWER – the riposte.

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Walter Green 14 Jun 2020 14 Jun 2020Defense, Fencing Actions, Offense, Strategy and Tactics, Uncategorized

The Week’s Catechism

Question – from the referee’s perspective what is the difference between a beat and a parry?Answer – a beat is an offensive action that strikes the opponent’s blade on the outer two-thirds of its length from the guard. A parry is an action that defeats the opponent’s by interposing the inner one-third…

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Walter Green 7 Jun 2020 7 Jun 2020Defense, Fencing Actions, Offense

200405 More Thoughts on Distance

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…

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Walter Green 5 Apr 2020 5 Apr 2020Defense, Fencing Actions, Footwork, Offense, Strategy and Tactics

200331 This Week’s Catechism Question

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…

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Walter Green 31 Mar 2020 31 Mar 2020Defense

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
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