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Home Fencing Actions Archive by category "Offense" (Page 3)

Category: Offense

190616 Dead Time and Progression

Recently, in conversation with my colleague, Maitre Gil Pezza, I was introduced to the idea of lost time. It reminded me that I have long had an interest in real time in fencing and in the relationship between efficient use of time and the ability to hit. So in this…

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Walter Green 21 Jun 2019 21 Jun 2019Counteroffense, Defense, Fencing Actions, Offense, Strategy and Tactics

190428 The Beat

When we start to move beyond the very most basic actions to develop the ability to prepare our attacks, the beat becomes an important tool. To understand the beat, we must understand the whole idea of preparation. Unfortunately, preparation as a technique, has become muddled by the rules of the…

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Walter Green 12 May 2019 12 May 2019Fencing Actions, Offense, Strategy and Tactics

190421 Tactical Application of the Remise

Before we talk about the tactics of the remise, a review of the context and technique is important. The remise is one of three renewals of the attack commonly taught in all three weapons: (1) Remise – a renewal of the attack in the same line. (2) Redoublement – a…

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Walter Green 5 May 2019 5 May 2019Fencing Actions, Offense

190414 The Indirect Riposte

So there you are on the strip. It is a good day in the Salle except for one thing … you parry-riposte combination isn’t working. Or more correctly it is working just often enough to keep you using it and isn’t working just often enough to keep you losing touches.…

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Walter Green 28 Apr 2019 28 Apr 2019Defense, Fencing Actions, Offense, Strategy and Tactics, Uncategorized

190407 Parries and Ripostes

If you ask the average beginner or intermediate fencer what the purpose of a parry is, the standard reply is “to prevent the opponent’s attack landing as a hit.” From time to time you will hear “so I will get the right of way.” At various times in my life,…

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Walter Green 21 Apr 2019 21 Apr 2019Defense, Fencing Actions, Offense, Strategy and Tactics

190331 The Simple Straight Thrust

Nothing is simpler than the straight thrust, right? You just stick you arm out and hit the other fencer. No great thought, no sophistication, you go fast at the right moment and you are a touch richer and closer to being a fencing hero (with apologies to the YouTube series…

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Walter Green 14 Apr 2019 14 Apr 2019Counteroffense, Fencing Actions, Offense

190303 The Matter With Distance

Every fencer is at some point taught that there are three distances (we teach that there are at least 5 in foil, more in sabre, and even more in epee). When our attack falls short we know that it is because the distance was not right. If we are a…

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Walter Green 10 Mar 2019 10 Mar 2019Defense, Fencing Actions, Footwork, Offense, Uncategorized

190225 It Is A Stovepipe

Okay, sometimes I take a different view of fencing from the traditional understanding of strategy, tactics, and technique. But what does fencing have to do with a stovepipe? To answer that question we have to answer another: what is a stovepipe? I am not talking about the relatively narrow metal…

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Walter Green 9 Mar 2019 9 Mar 2019Fencing Actions, Offense, Strategy and Tactics

190217 Thoughts on the Compound Attack

Compound attacks are commonly defined as multiple tempo blade actions, the last of which is the final attack and all previous of which are feints. As a practical matter a compound attack is actually a prepared attack (attacks which work by using preparatory actions to create opening lines through which…

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Walter Green 24 Feb 2019 24 Feb 2019Fencing Actions, Footwork, Offense, Strategy and Tactics

190210 Beating the Riposte

So there you are, the perfect attack into the opening line and all is well with the world because the next touch will be yours. And then you feel it – blade contact. You know what that means – parry – and that a riposte is on its way. What…

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Walter Green 17 Feb 2019 17 Feb 2019Counteroffense, Defense, Fencing Actions, Offense, Strategy and Tactics
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