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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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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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 […]
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.