Can parry 4 be deadly?

[ScorpionDevil]

I am pretty new in fencing, I've been fencing for less than 1/2 yr. I fenced a All City Tournment yesterday, and I nail down some verternan fencers and came out 4th. All I did was parry four riposts and simple beat attacks. All my friends are wondering how I get to be 4th just by using parry 4s... <img src="graemlins/evild.gif" border="0" alt="[Evil]" />

[Ben[PrFC]]

If you came in 4th just using parry 4, perhaps next time you should make regular use of parry 1
Ha..
Seriously tho, what weapon do you use?

[D'Artagnan1673]

She uses foil.

Parry four is the most common parry at that level since attack to four is the most common attack.

Sure, parry to four is deadly, when the attack comes to four. All actions should come about as a responce to what your opponent does.

[KShan5[PrFC]]

I fence sabre, but at senior div. for team foil, my club didn't have a team. So we took three sabreists, tought ourselves how to hold a foil, then went and got massacred. But, the easist parry was most defiently parry 4. Because many attacks came there you just flick your wrist and boom, parry 4. The only problem was, was that we were at seniors, meaning i lost 5-0 to a former Junior olympic champ and 6 A's.

[D'Artagnan1673]

ouch!

Yeah, I could imagine that me picking up a sabre and teaching myself something and going to a tournament would be disasterous as well.

The main thing to remember is that not every attack is going to come to four. If someone attacks to 8 and you parry 4, your blade will pass over the other weapon. At best, you'll realize in mid parry and drop your wrist. I've never hit a riposte on a parry 4 of that manner.

[ScorpionDevil]

I was doing a parry 4 more like a counter 4, covering my 8 area 2. But one bad thing that happened when i do that was i parried my opponent's blade on the floor and they got an off target light... <img src="graemlins/evild.gif" border="0" alt="[Evil]" />

[Fencing Angel]

left or right handed??

just wondering because if your left, (not to burst you bubble) but i think that some of the fencers there where not so vetran as you think.. you NEVER attack a lefty in 4.. EVER.. but this goes back to: "attacking a leftys 4 areas" which i was banned from posting in again.. under threat of having my union card revoked and being put in the stocks for 3 days.. (kidding)

but just wondering..

[ScorpionDevil]

me no lefty...

[Gav]

Actually you can attack a lefty in quarte (4). If you take the blade correctly you shouldn't have any problems. Having said that (as a lefty myself) it can be high risk as we lefty's expect a lot of that sort of thing (in foil). Also, at higher levels you find that people vary their attacking lines a lot anyway. I do Epee and you find in Epee most attack on your sixte (6) so my most common parries are sixte (or tierce but thats another matter) in Epee.

One of the guy's at our club is a superb flicker. Good judge of distance and timing (really annoying). When pressed by a righty he pulls of some astonishingly good quarte parries. You can actually see people scratch their heads in a kind of 'I know what he did, I know what to do - so why doesn't it work?' kind of way.

[three_hundred_fifty_five]

4th place just using parry four and ripostes, and beat attacks?

Bottom line. Your opponents at the All City Tournament suck.


...oh, and by the way. You're welcome.

[three_hundred_fifty_five]

Was this All City Tournament for Unclassified or novice fencers? Was it open to any level?

If it was for Unclassified or novice event, well maybe then your opponents weren't so sucky. Otherwise, my previous rude comment will stand. <img src="graemlins/jawa.gif" border="0" alt="[Jawa]" />

[ScorpionDevil]

It's only for high school students
Most people here are prolly too old for that

[shyHeidi]

[quote]Originally posted by Fencing Angel:
<strong>but this goes back to: "attacking a leftys 4 areas" which i was banned from posting in again.. under threat of having my union card revoked and being put in the stocks for 3 days..</strong><hr></blockquote>

Yeah, what ever happened there, you said a lefty hit squad was going to come and get me...
They're about a month and a half late, and still haven't shown up yet... <img src="graemlins/kane2.gif" border="0" alt="[Camo]" />