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08-19-2004, 04:57 PM
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How do foil, epee, and sabre bouts differ? I'm not asking about the rules (such as where one can score a valid touch, and so forth), but about the experience of watching as a whole. Do fights with one weapon tend to be more drawn out than with another weapon, does one weapon force its user to become more defensive...etc? | 
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08-19-2004, 05:35 PM
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Originally Posted by Unisonus How do foil, epee, and sabre bouts differ? I'm not asking about the rules (such as where one can score a valid touch, and so forth), but about the experience of watching as a whole. Do fights with one weapon tend to be more drawn out than with another weapon, does one weapon force its user to become more defensive...etc? | Yep. Sabre bouts tend to go the fastest, and epee bouts the slowest. Foil gets the most complicated back-and-forth bladework, whereas in sabre you'll see a lot more of people attacking hard, and in epee, you'll see people playing a much more defensive game and waiting for the perfect opening. Does that help? | |
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08-19-2004, 07:00 PM
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Originally Posted by greenchick Yep. Sabre bouts tend to go the fastest, and epee bouts the slowest. Foil gets the most complicated back-and-forth bladework, whereas in sabre you'll see a lot more of people attacking hard, and in epee, you'll see people playing a much more defensive game and waiting for the perfect opening. Does that help? | Yes, thank you. Can you tell me why it is that foil gets the most bladework? | |
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08-19-2004, 07:04 PM
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Originally Posted by Unisonus Can you tell me why it is that foil gets the most bladework? | No idea. My gut feeling is that it's because the rules don't lend themselves really strongly to either the very attack-oriented style of sabre or the very defense-oriented style of epee, so you get a lot more back-and-forth between the two. But someone's who's actually a decent foilist might have more insight than I do into that one. | |
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08-19-2004, 09:10 PM
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Originally Posted by Unisonus Yes, thank you. Can you tell me why it is that foil gets the most bladework? | It has the smallest target area. As a defender, it is easier to find the attacker's blade and as an attacker, you have to do more with your blade in order to find an opening. Right of way also forces the defender to stop the attack, and tempo is slower than sabre so attacks into preparation are much harder to pull off. | |
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08-19-2004, 10:15 PM
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| I understand. Thank you for the information, green and proto. | |
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