(one of my best friends and i constantly nudge each other about our myers-briggs profiles, I'd LOVE to see that thread!)
I definately agree about the coaching advice. All i ever tell a fencer is maybe a caution on how they're getting hit repeatedly, but this time to me is most effectively used to help the fencer's emotional/mental state. Same for myself. Often I start a DE break conversation with "how do you feel?" rather than "I notice he overextends yada yada yada..."
my kung fu teacher says in reference to him sparring someone "you don't know where it's coming from next because I don't know where it's coming from" Obviously he doesn't screw strategy... Hmm, any interesting studies on the mental preparation/attention focus throughout the fencing phrase itself? seems like a parry system sort of cuts out the play by play freeing you to 'just fence,' like you say, to counter a "flavor of fencing." that totally makes sense to me.
my sport psychology teacher recently said: "you realize you can't think and play sports at the same time don't you?"
Thoughts anyone? Beuller? Beuller?
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