Funny Fencing Slang

Funny Fencing Glossary

Abstain: French for “so sorry, I wasn’t paying attention.”Advance: Forward motion made by male fencers toward female fencers, usually resulting in a three-yard penalty, a red card, and a slap across the face.Alléz: Place to go for a cigarette in the middle of a tournament
Attack in Preparation: When you sneak up and hit […]

Fencing Moves. Fencing Slang

en garde - (pronounced ‘on guard’) the basic position
lunge - an attack
quarte - (pronounced ‘cart’) parry four, covers your upper left torso
octave - (pronounced ‘octarv’) parry 8, covers your lower right torso and right leg
sixte - (pronounced ’seest’) parry 6, covers you upper right torso and fencing arm
riposte - a hit after a parry
flèche- (French […]

Making a Fencing Target

If you found your self wondrering and not fencing, you may consider to hang a fencing target in your basement, and spent time improving your precision.
All you will need for this is a golf ball:

A string:

And some screw:

The procedure is strait forward: screw it into the golf ball and hang it to the height between […]

US Women Junior Foil Team Won Junior Wolrd Championship in Belfast

No surprise there Nicole Ross, Nzingha Prescod and Lee Kiefer won Junior Women’s Foil Junior Team Championship in Belfast, Ireland.

This is the final touch by Prescod to win 45 to 40 against Italy.

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2009 Junior Olympic Championships Albuquerque, NM February 13-16, 2009

Junior Olympic in New Mexico was a fun experience.While Lee Keifer was demonstrating great performance, while wearing funcy earings, the rest positioning was surprisingly different.NY, NJ and CA domination was not as noticible any-more and other states  brought many of exelent fencers, which is shown in the final results.Here is one of the Lee Keifer […]

Foot workout

Always start from warming up. The bout last for at least 3 minutes. You should be able to run in full speed for at least 3-5 minutes.