by Peter Gustafsson | Jul 31, 2017 | Miscellaneous
Event: World Championships 2017, Men´s Sabre Team, second round of DE. Germany vs. France. Germany had a huge lead – 40-27 – when the last leg in the team match started. Then this happened: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZGZoImIAKVo Go to the time...
by Peter Gustafsson | Jul 30, 2017 | Miscellaneous
This blog post is not exactly what I set out to write about, but it is at least about fencing, even if it is not about epee nor tactics. In the recent World Championships, a DE system with a repechage of sorts was used for the team events. From the Men´s Sabre team...
by Peter Gustafsson | Jul 27, 2017 | Strategy
In almost all cases, the fencer who wins a particular bout will have more reasons to feel satisfied with the result than the fencer who lost that bout. However, there is at least one special case where that is not true, and the weaker fencer can – if he knows...
by Peter Gustafsson | Jul 24, 2017 | Coaching, tactics
When a fencer and his opponent fence a competition match, their respective capabilities can be classified in 5 groups: The opponent is considerably better than the fencer The opponent is somewhat better than the fencer The opponent and the fencer are roughly evenly...
by Peter Gustafsson | Jul 21, 2017 | Coaching
In my previous post, I wrote a whole lot on what to do when you do not have evenly matched fencers, but still want to create challenging and instructive bouts in a club training setting. If you have not read that blogpost I recommend that you do so, since the first 8...
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