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I do not practice at home.
|     | 28 | 18.30% | |
I use a target (or tennis ball etc.).
|    | 63 | 41.18% | |
I practice footwork.
|    | 88 | 57.52% | |
I have another fencer in my household that will give me lessons and/or bout with me.
|    | 9 | 5.88% | |
I do weights/ cardio exercises.
|    | 74 | 48.37% | |
Other
|    | 31 | 20.26% | |
This poll is flawed.
| | 17 | 11.11% | 
05-22-2006, 09:13 PM
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#1 | | Member
Join Date: Jan 2004
Posts: 33
| Practicing At Home
How do you practice at home, if you do? What do you think are the most helpful routines? | 
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05-22-2006, 09:26 PM
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#2 | | Senior Member
Join Date: Feb 2006 Location: Venice Beach, CA
Posts: 1,308
| I just practice footwork. Seems like most of the kids out there today don't do this, or don't do it very well as most of the people out there have piss poor, sloppy footwork.
But yeahusually just little things now, advances, retreats and lunges, because my place is sort of small. Sometimes I'll try and hit a chair or my bed, although they aren't the best targets in the world. | |
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05-23-2006, 12:37 AM
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#3 | | Senior Member
Join Date: May 2006
Posts: 6,229
| I do this russian thing my coach taught me where you go through every combination of footwork you can possibly think of (e.g. advance, advance lunge retreat, etc.). I don't do that with a weapon cause last time I did I busted a bunch of lights and jabbed a hole in the wall. I stab around at a hat hung on the wall sometimes, too. | |
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05-23-2006, 03:31 AM
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#4 | | Member
Join Date: May 2006 Location: oregon
Posts: 51
| mostly just footwork and not as often as I should..... but I walk about 5 miles a day and sometimes that makes it hard to get going on the footwork.
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05-23-2006, 03:42 AM
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#5 | | Member
Join Date: Jul 2004 Location: At VRI
Posts: 67
| I used to practice at home like a fanatic. On the concrete floor in my poolhouse. Now my knees click. I've bin told to run and do other stuff like pushups, pullups, crunches, pistols etc at home, so I do the footwork stuff at fencing on the nice wooden floor. Not as much pain involved....
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05-23-2006, 04:59 AM
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#6 | | Senior Member
Join Date: Dec 2004 Location: GREECE/Piraeus
Posts: 1,310
| I do footwork training and target.
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05-23-2006, 10:41 AM
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#7 | | Member
Join Date: Apr 2006 Location: Woodstock, GA
Posts: 31
| I do footwork every now and then, and I always do cardio and weight stuff at least a few times a week to keep in shape.
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05-23-2006, 11:48 AM
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#8 | | Super Shoebie
Join Date: Oct 2005 Location: VA
Posts: 1,085
| Tennis ball, footwork w/tennis ball, walk the Jack Russell (Very Fast!), put on gear and make my son take pokes at me... | |
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05-23-2006, 01:11 PM
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#9 | | Just Joined
Join Date: Apr 2006 Location: Winnipeg
Posts: 19
| Well,
I try to do as much footwork as possible at home. I bike to work, so that is 6-15 km one way, and then I have started running at lunch.
Now just gotta bring the weight training into it. | |
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05-23-2006, 01:27 PM
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#10 | | Senior Member
Join Date: Oct 2005
Posts: 134
| My usual morning routine includes light weight training (ankle and wrist weights and 15 lb hand bells), footwork (exercises vary), bladework on my target (which by the way isn't one of the nice ones, its a welcome mat with a heavy rubber backing stuck on the wall; its so big that if I miss I don't poke any holes. Wifey-poo likes that). After that (about 45 minutes), its onto Mr. Treadmill for another 40 minutes for cardio and endurance.
Then its time to take the kids to school. | |
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05-23-2006, 07:51 PM
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#11 | | Senior Member
Join Date: Oct 2005 Location: Los Angeles
Posts: 7,181
| I do the usual footwork and target drills. Though I dont' have much room to hang tennis balls, so I use the wall outside and the basketball pole.
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05-24-2006, 01:35 AM
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#12 | | Member
Join Date: Dec 2005 Location: kentucky, USA
Posts: 57
| i love practicing my footwork, i do just about half the routines listed on here (they rock and are well rounded) plus i always try to see how far i can jump lunge. we're going to have the tennis balls up soon in our club so that should be fun
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05-24-2006, 12:33 PM
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#13 | | Epee fencing addict
Join Date: Jan 2005 Location: Glenwood, ny
Posts: 2,325
| I used to practice at home. I don't now. I would like to, but time is my enemy.
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05-24-2006, 04:42 PM
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#14 | | Senior Member
Join Date: May 2005 Location: Indiana
Posts: 881
| I practice my parries in front of the mirror. | |
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05-25-2006, 12:57 AM
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#15 | | Senior Member
Join Date: Jul 2003 Location: Carlsbad, CA
Posts: 619
| I do different things at home depending on what I need to work on. If I need to practice cuts, I'll set up my mask in the garage for that. At the moment, I need to work on refining my guard position and some footwork, so I'll be doing that in front of the mirror.
I also do stretching and some yoga-type exercises. | |
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05-25-2006, 01:54 AM
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#16 | | Fencing Expert
Join Date: Apr 2000 Location: Pennsauken, NJ
Posts: 9,089
| I read fencing.net.
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05-25-2006, 04:56 PM
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#17 | | Super Shoebie
Join Date: Oct 2005 Location: VA
Posts: 1,085
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Originally Posted by oiuyt I read fencing.net.
-B | We're talking about what you do At Home, not 24 hours/day...
sheeeesh! | |
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05-25-2006, 09:52 PM
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#18 | | Fencing Expert
Join Date: Apr 2000 Location: Pennsauken, NJ
Posts: 9,089
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Originally Posted by chefencer We're talking about what you do At Home, not 24 hours/day...
sheeeesh! | Well, I do it other places as well, I must admit.
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05-26-2006, 07:12 PM
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#19 | | Senior Member
Join Date: Jun 2003 Location: LaLa Land
Posts: 288
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Originally Posted by parrythis I used to practice at home. I don't now. I would like to, but time is my enemy. | Time was my biggest problem durring the school year. I barely had enough time to go to all the practices AND mangage a not failing grade in my 4 classes (2 of which I NEVER had to turn anything in). Now that its summer break though, I'm going to TRY to do some, but my latest excuse is "not while its over 85 degrees out" which is basically any part of the day from when I wake up until when I go back to sleep.  | |
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05-27-2006, 03:05 AM
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#20 | | Senior Member
Join Date: Mar 2006 Location: Melbourne, North Korea
Posts: 305
| Footwork and parrying in front of the mirror. I also do about half an hour of stretches.
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