Building Confidence in Your Fencing

[dknj]

Building Confidence in Your Fencing
I’m not sure if I can stress enough how important having confidence is to your success at fencing (or life in general).
http://www.sofaemployed.com/?p=1507

[rdg]

Words of wisdom.

Sam

[dharmaqueen]

Thank you. Today was a perfect day for this advice!
We did a conditioning drill today that I call the DK because it has us squatting as far as we can enguard and coming up slowly then advancing once and doing it again, and again and again.

[Cookeit]

Thank you. Today was a perfect day for this advice!
We did a conditioning drill today that I call the DK because it has us squatting as far as we can enguard and coming up slowly then advancing once and doing it again, and again and again.

According to that thread about knees, isn't this type of drill bad for you?

[Stormbringer]

Thank you. Today was a perfect day for this advice!
We did a conditioning drill today that I call the DK because it has us squatting as far as we can enguard and coming up slowly then advancing once and doing it again, and again and again.

Have you done the one where one:
- fully squats (as in, calves-are-touching-thighs squat) from an en garde position
- puts the front leg straight out
- moves forward directly into a lunge position
- recovers forward directly into the squatted position
- repeat...?

[Morale Officer]

According to that thread about knees, isn't this type of drill bad for you?

YES!

Have you done the one where one:
- fully squats (as in, calves-are-touching-thighs squat) from an en garde position
- puts the front leg straight out
- moves forward directly into a lunge position
- recovers forward directly into the squatted position
- repeat...?

As is this ^^^^^

[Sir Alexander]

Words of wisdom indeed.

Good advice!

[dharmaqueen]

Lets just say I wasn't squatting all the way down to the strip, I just did what I was able to do. And yes, it would have been bad for my knees if I tried it or the one that Stormbringer suggested.

[foibles]

Cookeit and Morale Officer are spot on.

Water-on-the-knee is in no_way_fun. No better way to get it than those extreme exercises. Maybe kids can get away with them... dunno... but even a adult in decent shape can permanently damage a knee with those.

Don't do them. Period.

Strengthen your legs in any of about a million other ways.

As Mr. Keller has reminded us, confidence in your fencing is essential. Confidence in your ability to take ownership of your own training and health is important too.