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Tactical and technical lessons gleaned from a club training bout in epée – followup #2

by Peter Gustafsson | Jul 12, 2017 | Coaching, tactical training, tactics

Editorial note: I am not sure whether it is best to have the notes concerning one tactical lesson in one blog post since they refer to the same session, or to split them up because such a blog post is so long, in this case about 2000 words. This time I will test the...

Tactical and technical lessons gleaned from a club training bout in epée – followup #1; list of error consequences and their respective corrections

by Peter Gustafsson | Jun 27, 2017 | Coaching, tactical training, tactics

The consequences of the errors described previously are as follows: Error #1 (front foot angled inward) See previous blog post. Error #2 (not taking the chance to score when he was close to the opponent and also had the momentum) allows the opponent to get back...

Tactical and technical lessons gleaned from a club training bout in epée – followup #1; notes on fencing after break

by Peter Gustafsson | Jun 26, 2017 | Coaching, tactical training, tactics

What happened during the second part of the bouting, after I had stopped the bouting and pointed out his errors to the student, was that the student managed to create battée sequences where he forced his opponent to move backwards several times, just as before the...

Tactical and technical lessons gleaned from a club training bout in epée – followup #1; general coaching thoughts

by Peter Gustafsson | Jun 25, 2017 | Coaching, tactical training, tactics

It is my firm belief that a coach should not point out more problems than the fencer can reasonably deal with at the stage of his development, and that pointing out more problems than that is directly counterproductive to his development. Also, it is my belief that...

Tactical and technical lessons gleaned from a club training bout in epée – followup #1, new error set

by Peter Gustafsson | Jun 24, 2017 | Coaching, tactical training, tactics

The the following updated error list of this training session looks like this: Error of technique: Standing with his front foot angled inward Error of decisiveness: The student did not take the chance to score when he was close to the opponent and also had the...

Tactical and technical lessons gleaned from a club training bout in epée – followup #1, recap and structure

by Peter Gustafsson | Jun 23, 2017 | Coaching, tactical training, tactics

This blog posts, and its subsequent parts (see below), are a followup on this previous blog post. The student and the opponent are the same as previously described. After coaching, I came home and wrote up my impressions, a writeup that turned out to be 2068 words...
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