Any Left - handed Sabre Fencers out there?

[ra2000a]

hey do any of you people fence sabre and are left - handed? if so, do u have any tips or tricks?

[It]

Originally posted by ra2000a
hey do any of you people fence sabre and are left - handed? if so, do u have any tips or tricks?

I can pull a quarter out of your ear. Oh! Also here's a tip "Don't eat yellow snow!"

As you can tell, unless you complete certain tasks and join in the Lefty Secret Society you may never know. But there are some really old threads somewhere in here about fencing poeple in the L.S.S. It's almost pretty much almost the same as fencing a lefty fencer in any other weapon..... who knows I may give out a secret or two now and then.:

[GreenDot]

Lefty saberist here. I've only been fencing for about a year and a half though, so no real tricky stuff to share. The most useful thing I've found is that if someone hasn't fenced many left handed fencers, they'll keep there guard in too far, allowing you easy access to the outside of the wrist/arm. Stop cuts to the wrist also might be a little more effective, as the distance is slightly closer with a lefty fencing a righty. Though if your opponent is experienced with lefties, you'll have the same problems.

-James

[afc fencer]

I find that for me it is easier to do stop cuts under the arm/wrtist rather than the sky hook aginst righties.

[sabrebelle]

I find it useful to think of my opponant as having open and closed lines, instead of whether they are left-handed or right-handed, but here's one trick to try with mirror-handed people:

For the first touch, come in en garde with your weapon too far in, leaving your forearm ever so tempting to the opponant who believes you just have bad form, and then wait...When they go for the wrist touch (and they will), parry 4 (or 2) and riposte. It'll work once or twice, then do something else.

[a517dogg]

keeth smart, number one in US, number 2in the world, is lefty. as is i believe aki spencer-el?

[edew]

Aki is most definitely NOT a lefty.

[a517dogg]

lee is also a lefty.

some other westbrook kid is though, i think. any idea who?

[esgrimista1]

Jacobson is a lefty, Mariel Zagunis #1 Jr. Womens in World is a lefty . . . interesting

[esgrimista1]

American Fencers sells a instructional video tape The Left-handed saber fencer. Haven't seen it but you might want to check it out.

[jeff]

Another useful trick: it just seems to be very natural to make back-edge beat 4 then cut cheek against righties. Once they've gotten used to the beat-4 and attack to the mask, make a (hard) beat 4 to draw the parry, and cutover into the belly.

Obviously for you righties, the same applies when being done to a left. - we just get more practice working the righty-lefty situations.