Recreational Olympic Sport Fencing group classes are offered by CoachGerryD
to Tampa School students age 12 and up. For informationcontact
CoachGerryD at CoachD@TampaBay.rr.com.
Starting Dec. 1, 2009
Preparation
of Attack, Engagements, Disengagement, Press, Beat, Thrust with Lunge and Thrust without Lunge.
Hand is inSupination
for the first four basic On-Guard positions.
Fingernails are upward and the thump position is at 1
or 2 o'clock for right handed and at 10 or 11 o'clock for left handed fencers.
Some fencers repeatedly practice
parry 4 from the 6, 8 or7 position with a roll from, Supination 6, 8, or 7, with to a slight Pronation in 4.Which
is not a 4, but a parry 5, at the instant of engagement. This video addresses an injury that may occur when performing this
parries, especially if it's performed as a reflexive unforeseen action.
Sixth position
A defensive engagements made when going to the forth
position is called a "parry of four". If the "parry of four" is executed against an
opponent's riposte, the riposte that follows is called a "counter riposte".
