by Peter Gustafsson | May 2, 2019 | Coaching, Goal setting, technique
Back from a training session. Two of my least experienced fencers were fencing against each other, and a fencer their age that is significantly more experienced. First time around, both of the less experienced fencers fenced at a low tempo against the more experienced...
by Peter Gustafsson | Mar 2, 2019 | Coaching
If one is to be a good competition coach for a single student, one task that is important to become competent at is to watch your student´s opponents in early matches, and from those observations put together a game plan for your student. I was thinking on how to do...
by Peter Gustafsson | Feb 22, 2019 | Coaching
In a previous post, I castigated myself for speaking too much at the wrong moment. A week ago, I spoke quite a bit more, and the results – in apparent student understanding – were quite positive. I spoke quite a bit yesterday, also with good results. I...
by Peter Gustafsson | Feb 7, 2019 | Coaching, Strategy
Today, I was training two guys of significantly differing experience. The more experienced one will soon compete, so I focused the training session on sharpening his skills. I told that to both of them, so that the other one would not feel unfairly neglected. In the...
by Peter Gustafsson | Jan 11, 2019 | Coaching, Strategy
At the start of the latest training session, the first match was two quite unevenly matched fencers. As is my usual habit, I spent most of the coaching effort on the less proficient fencer. The reason for that is that I want the comparatively less proficient fencers...
by Peter Gustafsson | Dec 15, 2018 | Coaching, tactics
A week ago, I was coaching two students with a large differential in experience. Not only that, the less experienced one does not have any other aspects in which he has the upper hand. At first, I made them fence epee with handicapping rule changes, in order to level...
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