eppe

[irqkix]

I was wondering if anyone can give me tips on how to build my point control. Things like exercises with and without the eppe weapon.

Please respond, thank you

[swordsen]

take a tennis ball, put it in a sock, tie the sock to a cord and hang it from your ceiling. get back at distence and practice hitting the ball. again and again and again. Hit it while the ball is moving, try to hit it twice on each lunge. when the tennis ball gets easy use a golf ball.
good luck

[damianip]

When I drill with the young épéeists in our club (easy folks I'm no coach, I'm just a slightly more animate dummy), I have small duct tape "x"s on my sleeve and vest. They have to hit the designated target during the drill. Almost gets no credit.

We start slow and then build speed. All the while they have to focus on the correct action AND hit the mark. It seems to be working as they are now hammering me during bouts. Now if they would only apply it to competitions! ;~)

We also have a similar set of "x"s on our fencing dummy. Try to perform a a blade action (bind, beat, etc.) and then hit a designated "x". Lather, rinse, repeat (over and over).

The golf ball on a string is a good one too.


Paolo

[flik]

I'm a big fan of the golf ball on a string. My club has also done the X on the padded wall (much to the dismay of my university) and that seems to work well too. Just got a fencing dummy - there will be tagets on that too.
I want some opinions. I was thinking of putting some spare lame material on the dummy in choice spots and hooking the thing up to a buzz box. I've figured out how to make it work for the different weapons (really easy for epee), but am wondering if it's worth the effort. What do you all think?

[fencingguy]

I used to do this everyday before practice, it works:
it's a series of 300 touches to a single spot on the wall, nonmoving. The first 50 are straight extension, the next 50 are with either a circle 6 parry or disengage, the next 50 are with a parry 4. The next 150 is the same cycle, except done at lunge distance from the target. You can vary this by selecting 2 or 3 spots on the target and rotating through them. The important thing to concentrate on is hitting the exact point you've chosen and doing it while keeping your fingers relaxed.