The Fencing Game, Coach Gerardo Duran A/K/A. Coach GerryD		Click Here: Download Sport Fencing Notes and Glossary of terms compiled by CoachGerryD
"WHAT'S GOING ON"... Using the environmental information before them, a fencer experiences what is seen (vision), what is heard (audition), what they feel (touch). Knowing what is happening (perception) in the moment of play requires, memory of your experiences in game playing, practice and training. A good fencer is trained to disregard (filters out), unimportant environmental information. They focus and identify the environmental queues (game queues), that create opportunities for their goal achievement. Click Here: Download Sport Fencing Notes and Glossary of terms compiled by CoachGerryD		"WHAT TO DO"?... is knowing what fencing actions (tactics) are needed for accomplishing the goals of the game. The activities of the response-selection stage (What To DO?) begin once those of the stimulus identification stage (What's Going On?) have provided the fencer with sufficient information about the nature of the environment. Using this information, the performer must now decide what, if any, response should be made. If the fencer decides that a response is appropriate, he or she selects one from available movements, such as attacking, defending with blade or distance. Thus, in this stage a translation of sorts occurs between the sensory input that has been identified and one of several possible forms of movement output.
"HOW TO DO-IT"?... is knowing how to do the fencing actions (technique) , needed for goal achievement. If a sport fencer demonstrates "ideal form and technique" in blade and foot work ("HOW TO DO IT"?) and cannot react successfully ("WHAT'S GOING ON"? & "WHAT TO DO"?) to her opponents actions during the game, the fencer is not completely skilled to achieve the goal of the game.The goal of sport fencing is, diversity in responses (e.g. successfully parrying an attack in a number of ways and setting up a successful riposte). The appropriate assessment of fencing skill would seem to involve observing the outcome of performance in a bouting environment, rather than evaluating the technique of movement.Moving in a particular way is an index of success only in those activities for which the goal is to exhibit a specified technique. CLICK HERE for Foot Work Page * LINK TO: Methods & Strategy page: The basis for choosing and Training Fencing Actions by Prof. Zbiniew Czajkowski. Wikipedia LINK TO: FOIL FENCING, SABRE FENCING & EPEE FENCING. Site Page Map: Home Start Online FENCING Lessons, Video Tutorials. CoachGerryD Presents, FENCING FOOT WORK & TRACKING VideoTutorials . CoachGerryD Presents, BLADE WORK with the OLYMPIC Sword Video Tutorials, CoachGerryD Presents, SIMPLE ATTACK Exchange Drill, With Coach Vincent Bradford. CoachGerryD Presents, Blade Transfers "Prise de fer" French, "Prese di Ferro" Italian. CoachGerryD Presents, Prof. Zbiniew Czajkowski, Methods & Strategy for Training Fencing Actions. Using Hungarian Sport Fencing Methodology - From Coach David Littell CoachGerryD's, Counter-Time, Counter-Attack Strategy & Definitions. CoachGerryD's, Fencing Actions Part 1 CoachGerryD's, Fencing Actions Part 2 Coach GerryD, Berkeley Prep. School Tampa FL, Summer Olympic Fencing Skills Camps, PE Credit Class, Coach GerryD' Fencing lessons: individual and groups, Individual OLYMPIC Fencing Lessons Program. CoachGerryD's, Video Tutorial Answers, Tactical/Technical OLYMPIC Sport Fencing Questions.