jkormann

WCU Lesson Remembered : Fence from distance

, 02-03-2012 at 06:24 AM (239 Views)

Went to the WCU practice on Wed. Good practice, warmed up with the drills used on the WCY Adult class. Students seemed to enjoy it - some said it was "exercise" they weren't ready for. Good.

Fenced Paul, the club president. Lost 5-3. Realized much after the mistake I was making : I was starting the attacks too close and letting him get into my distance. I need to work on keeping a further distance and starting the attacks longer. We'd actually get to where the tips where about 1/2 down the opposing blade before beginning the attack. That's too far, especially when someone's as fast as Paul. Need to start around the foil tape area.

Fenced Dr Fish in Epee. He bought a new epee (electric!) so he borrowed a body cord and my buzzer. He's now hooked on electrics.

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tbryan - 02-03-2012 11:42 AM
Odd. I posted that comment, but the blog list still shows "0 comments".
jkormann - 02-03-2012 12:40 PM
tbryan - for some reason I found that if I start the attack where my point is at their tip-tape, I have better success. May be because I give them more time to react and I have more time to perform a second action. With Paul, we were getting in close and the director was calling his attack (foil). Starting at a little longer distance, the director sees my attack clearer (for some reason) and I'm awarded the point.

Read the referenced post - I'll try that. Thanks!
tbryan - 02-03-2012 03:52 PM
OK. Since it's a journal, maybe you were just making notes to yourself. So I won't pester you too much.

I just thought that it was an odd way to describe the situation and your solution. Your follow up didn't really clarify anything to me. That is, the analysis sounds like "if stuff happens at distance X, he gets the touch, but if (the same? other?) stuff happens at distance Y, I get the touch, so I should start attacks at distance Y."

That sounds like a good idea if you need to win this bout right now. But if you're just training, what were you working on? If you were practicing starting your attack at distance X, it would be better to get a good description of what's happening and a diagnosis of what's going wrong.

Anyway, you don't need to explain it to me. It just struck me as odd, and it reminded me of that other thread.