My fencing taste today included review of advance and retreat, and basic parries – a “4″ – a “slap” — and a “parry 6.” My observations are that footwork is essential; perhaps more so than the ability to control the blade. Also reinforced was proper lunging technique – point/lunge.
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Fencing II
Posted in Arts Martial on May 16, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Fencing, I
Posted in Arts Martial on April 27, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
An introductory lesson in fencing technique focuses, not surprisingly, in the proper stance, posture, and walking for that art. For my practice walk I must remember the “L” and overcome my dance-informed instinct to collect; the “collection” is to return to the “L” with a proper shoulder-width distance. For lunges the [...]
Fencing!
Posted in Arts Martial on January 8, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
I have negotiated a block of lessons in, of all things, fencing. When I first set out in tango I joked that I would spend a year doing that before moving on to something else. It so developed (because of a lack of seriousness of intent in tango) that I went [...]
