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Home Fencing Actions Archive by category "Offense"

Category: Offense

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

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

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

This Week’s Catechism

QUESTION – what is an invitation? ANSWER – a movement to create an apparent, but false, opportunity to draw an opponent’s attack or counterattack.

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Walter Green 31 May 2020 31 May 2020Offense, Strategy and Tactics

Catechism of the Week

QUESTION – what is a first intention action? ANSWER – an attack or riposte executed to hit the opponent in one or multiple tempos of continuous attacking action.

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Walter Green 31 May 2020 31 May 2020Fencing Actions, Offense

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
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