Fencing.net You make the Call!! Sequence #3

[mrbiggs]

#1: Attack from the left no, counterattack right, touch. (Or just attack right touch, left stopped completely.)
#2: Attack left
#3: Attack left
#4: Attack left
#5: Attack left
#6: Attack left

All these actions seemed basically the same--FotR has basically zero opportunity to get right of way if he's squirming like that and hitting so late.

[mrbiggs]

#5 ALMOST the same as 4, but right only extends...there’s not even a hint of a lunge or anything else to actually attack, and left has that hitch in his action again, then they both finish. Simul.

If someone's dodging the tip like that it's not simul; there's just no way.

Same for 2 but to a lesser extent.

[Jason]

It seems weird to ask a FOC member to give an official answer on a video that is not 'official'. They didn't put this video together, they don't know the fencers, this is not a video they put out by them for training reasons, and for lack of a better way of putting it they didn't hit the record button(or controlled who did). I do believe this is a good video, for many reasons I have already listed, and there is obviously nothing stopping one or more FOC members from giving an answer or analysis but to ask them to make an official ruling on a video that is not 'official' that happens to appear on a chat board could lead to problems.

If you disagree that's fine but if I were a FOC member I would seriously hesitate on giving an official 'answer or ruling' on a video that someone else, not associated with the FOC, put together for their own reasons with their own people their own way, no matter how well done it was.

Again, I appreciate that an FOC member might not want to make an "official call" on one of these videos, but I can not in any way see how that would be as a result of them not knowing who the fencers are. What could that possibly matter?