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hi hi all, I am new to the site and new to the sport. have you guys been finding it easy? (this goes out to the new beginners mainly)
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It takes a while for you to get your 'fencing feet', but once you do, it's loads of fun!
Been doing it for little under two years myself, and the progress you make from year one to year two is amazing!
So long as you get the basic foot and blade movements you are set, the rest is just stepping into a piste and getting some good quality time to polish out the kinks!  Liverpool University Fencing Club - Best Club - 2006 UoL Athletic Union!  www.liverpool-fencing.com
(Now in Español and Francais...someday I'll get around to Nederlands, Italiano, Deutsch, and Polski)
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hi I've been at it about 3 months now. I practice 2-3 times a week with private lessons at least 1hr a week. My instructor says I have a natual talent for defence and balance. (which is generous of him). I have managed to win bouts against much more experienced fencers pretty frequently. But I really lack a strong attack and usually win when they become overconfident or reckless in attacking me.
My goal now is to learn to move smoothly, relax and turn my defence into some kind of effective offence. My instructor says that speed and confidence will come with time, but for now just find your strong points and build upon them, find your weak areas and improve them, study, watch and learn from better fencers. And maybe most of all, practice whenever you can and fence when you can. Even being thrashed by a better fencer seems to help. I try not to be discouraged. Instead I try to sort out why he/she thrashed me and hope that next time we face off I may surprise him/her with a working response to their attack.
Best wishes and good luck!!! "Forget your fears and want no more..." VNV Nation
"Our body is a machine for living. It is organized for that, it is its nature. Let life go on in it unhindered and let it defend itself."
Leo Tolstoy
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 Originally Posted by current hi all, I am new to the site and new to the sport. have you guys been finding it easy? (this goes out to the new beginners mainly) Hello current!wellcome to the sport and to the forum! The purpose of tactic is to conquer the enemy with proper war movements and actions.
-Tactics of Emperor Leon 6th the Wise
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