4.1.1 Conclusion

The intent was to verify incidences and characteristics that give a flow experience to high-level athletes. We have used the Flow State Scale fully for this and for processing the collected data. The analysis has provided the following results:

From the results obtained, it is not possible to state that high-level fencers of any sex or weapon are capable of influencing the incidence or characteristics that help bring about flow. We can state however,

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3.2 Results

The purpose of this research was to understand the way in which elite athletes experience flow during performance. In general; what does a flow experience in an elite athlete consist of? Is it a state that the athletes are aware of and can describe? Are these descriptions congruent with the model of Csikszentmihalyi (1990)?

The analysis of answers by the athletes regarding the questions about flow revealed a high association with this model; therefore the

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2.3.3 The foil

- The target. Target is the entire torso, including the back, ending at the groin area, excluding the legs, butt, arms and head.

- The hit. Like the epee the hit can only be made by the point, but with a slightly lower pressure on the tip (500 grams). The reduced target and the need to hit with the point, makes foil the most difficult weapon to hit valid target.

- The right of way. Foil is a right of way weapon and is based on the same

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2.3 The three weapons: difference between tactics and technique

International regulations establish the rules for all three weapons. These rules primarily conduct how competitions are run: from a preliminary round, there is a variable number (it depends on how many registered) of “round-robin” bouts, composed of seven fencers, and each receives an overall ranking based on the number of victories and the number of hits given vs. the number of hits received by each athlete. These rankings

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2.2.5 The deception

A good definition of deception: “the conscious attempt to distort reality, done to the adversary to gain an advantage”. The perceived reality depends on the senses and the nervous system (information processing system), that interprets the data received through the senses. To do this work it requires:

- useful data;
- a processing program for the data;
- sufficient time;
- limited cost.

To increase the odds of

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