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***Craig*** · 02-13-2004, 11:30 AM

User Rolls has provided a great little piece of content for fencing.net.

Check it out here.

Katman · 02-13-2004, 11:43 AM

Ahahahahahha! That thing rocks! Good job Rolls!

FoilyGeezer · 02-13-2004, 11:44 AM

Nicely done!

Rolls · 02-13-2004, 11:47 AM

Thanks, it was actaully east to make.
I just think it's cool to see it on fencing.net.

Rolls.

MyraTrue · 02-13-2004, 11:56 AM

I LIKE that! Fun! Thats something I might just show our beginners class who are learning their parries right now. Hmm....

GGK · 02-13-2004, 01:14 PM

sweet

ztron24 · 02-13-2004, 02:13 PM

that guy can really parry...

C.J. · 02-13-2004, 02:16 PM

This is really cool, for a long time I couldn't figure out what parry 4, 6, 7 and 8 were. Now what are parry 1, 2, 3, and 5?

walrus418 · 02-13-2004, 03:09 PM

Very nice ..... a slower motion version might be good as well.

frenzl · 02-13-2004, 03:35 PM

it looks so real i amolst started lunging at my screen good job rolls.

Toecutter · 02-13-2004, 03:42 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by C.J.
This is really cool, for a long time I couldn't figure out what parry 4, 6, 7 and 8 were. Now what are parry 1, 2, 3, and 5?

EDIT: ARRRHAHRGH! I had 3 and 5 wrong. Corrected throught the use of the fencing.net glossary, which, incidentally, can no longer be reached from the front page.

1, or prime, is done by dropping your point straight down with the pommel outside your wrist, then bringing your arm up and across your face like you're wiping your forehead with your forearm. The blade should be pointing straight down. Useful for fleches and infighting.

Parry 2 is done by keeping the wrist still with respect to the forearm, and then rotating the shoulder until the blade makes a half-circle and is pointing down. It's a low clearing action. This isn't a very good description, but it's harder to describe than it is to do. This can be used in place of parry 8, but is easy to deceive.

According to the glossary, 3 is blade up and to the outside.

5 is the sabre head parry. Blade up and to the inside.

For the life of me, I can't understand the concept of parry 9.

RebelFencer · 02-13-2004, 07:57 PM

Very very cool

fencingguy · 02-14-2004, 03:30 PM

very cool, good learning device for beginners, but...

[cringing] the four was wrong, his hand is in the wrong position from what I could tell. Your thumb should be turned over so that the nails of the hand face down, not up.

I know I'm nit-picking, but it's a pretty important part of a parry 4.

DanInMI · 02-14-2004, 03:42 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by Katman
Ahahahahahha! That thing rocks! Good job Rolls!

Just what I was going to say....Very cool!

Rolls, if you have the abilty to make more things like that it would be great.
nice job!

DanInMI · 02-14-2004, 03:59 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by fencingguy
very cool, good learning device for beginners, but...

[cringing] the four was wrong, his hand is in the wrong position from what I could tell. Your thumb should be turned over so that the nails of the hand face down, not up.

I know I'm nit-picking, but it's a pretty important part of a parry 4.

Parry 4 is suppinated.

Supination: the position of the sword hand with the finger-nail uppermost.

DanInMI · 02-14-2004, 04:04 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by fencingguy
very cool, good learning device for beginners, but...

[cringing] the four was wrong, his hand is in the wrong position from what I could tell. Your thumb should be turned over so that the nails of the hand face down, not up.

I know I'm nit-picking, but it's a pretty important part of a parry 4.

Here is the definition of Parry 4 from fencing.net"

<B>"Quarte: parry #4; blade up and to the inside, wrist supinated."</B>

Supinated means nails up not down. Sorry.

Rolls · 02-14-2004, 04:59 PM

I'm glad everyone like it. I am going to try to do one for parries 1,2,3, and 4 this weekend.

It was pretty easy to do this one. I just threw on my gear, had my wife snap some pics of me (the camera was on a tripod). and then I photoshoped them. Lastly, I put it together as HTML in dreamweaver. I only had to take 5 pictures for the whole thing. ALthough my jacket is a little baggy, and I think it makes me look heavy...

Rolls.

***Craig*** · 02-14-2004, 07:40 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by DanInMI
Parry 4 is suppinated.

Supination: the position of the sword hand with the finger-nail uppermost.

The traditional parry 4 (which is what was described in the glossary on this site) is supinated, but the modern parry 4 is typically done with slight pronation so that the thumb is in the 10 o'clock to 11 o'clock position.

I need to update the glossary with both the traditional positions as well as the modern positions. All of the traditional positions were defined from the French school where 6 is held with the palm up and thumb at 3 o'clock. In modern fencing, the thumb is at 12 to 1 o'clock for 6.

Craig

veeco · 02-14-2004, 07:43 PM

This might be OK for foil, but the correct epee 4 is still and still should be done supinated. Otherwise it's too easy to deceive, and harder to keep the point on an advanced target (the arm).

Namir · 02-14-2004, 10:39 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by Craig
The traditional parry 4 (which is what was described in the glossary on this site) is supinated, but the modern parry 4 is typically done with slight pronation so that the thumb is in the 10 o'clock to 11 o'clock position.

I need to update the glossary with both the traditional positions as well as the modern positions. All of the traditional positions were defined from the French school where 6 is held with the palm up and thumb at 3 o'clock. In modern fencing, the thumb is at 12 to 1 o'clock for 6.

Craig

THANKS.
Learned something new.