Not to rain on your parade... but based on your original post.
Originally Posted by Invictious
Hello Everyone, I am 15 and I live in Hong Kong. I began fencing 1 week ago, I learn the foil.
You might want to consider working on the basics, before learning how to fleche.
Yes, I'm sure you'll win bouts running at people while the rest of the class is learning footwork and how to parry in their bouts with you. I think in the long run, this will not be beneficial to your game.
Beer, it's whats for dinner! ~ a young snowboarding Canadian The meek don't want it! ~ sticker on a rock band's guitar
Ooo ooo, but could you watch a bunch of breakdancers in the vatican with a straight face?!?!...
The breakdancing I could handle.... it's not being able to look concerned when those boys bent over in front of so many Catholic priests that I would have a tough time with!
Beer, it's whats for dinner! ~ a young snowboarding Canadian The meek don't want it! ~ sticker on a rock band's guitar
Mehhh, that one is almost more "up" than "out". Seems like they could put less power into going up and more into going forward.
i'd like to see you do better. The timing on that one is nearly perfect, hand position is great, and technique is damn good. Plus i'd hope he got a single light there.
Things you should focus on after your fundementals:
Fleche/Flunge
Beat attack
They are the most tempting things to do, but other fundementals are needed, and once you know beat attack before anything else, everything becomes a beat instead of a solid parry, and everything becomes a flunge instead of a much better for the situation well excecuted lunge.
i'd like to see you do better. The timing on that one is nearly perfect, hand position is great, and technique is damn good. Plus i'd hope he got a single light there.
Come on. The question is never whether we can do better. It's possible in life to criticize things that you can't actually do.
Anyway, considering that it looks like the green light all the way at the right (opponent's light, unless this photo was taken a loooong time ago) is on, I think it's at best a double touch.
Not to rain on your parade... but based on your original post.
You might want to consider working on the basics, before learning how to fleche.
Yes, I'm sure you'll win bouts running at people while the rest of the class is learning footwork and how to parry in their bouts with you. I think in the long run, this will not be beneficial to your game.
My parade is still dry.
I of course, know that the fleche is an advanced move, and I don't intend on learning it until my coach thinks I am capable.
Howere I LOVE seeing people do the fleche, because it's just so intense and exciting.
Originally Posted by Invictious 
