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An interesting lesson, despite fencers being of unequal abilities

by Peter Gustafsson | Aug 25, 2017 | Coaching, tactical training

Todays training session started out with ordinary 5-point bouts, and with the fencers attending this evening, most of those got quite lopsided. That is something that I want to avoid as a coach – the better fencer is not challenged, and the weaker fencer is...

A not-so-ancient maxim proven right, yet again

by Peter Gustafsson | Aug 22, 2017 | Coaching, Strategy, tactics

You might have seen the following text attributed to Sun Tzu, from The Art of War: “Strategy without tactics is the slowest route to victory. Tactics without strategy is the noise before defeat.” When I looked up Wikisource to check where exactly in The...

Strategy vs. tactics: two tentative definitions in a fencing context

by Peter Gustafsson | Aug 19, 2017 | Strategy, tactics

The definitions of movements, as outlined in a previous post, were about how body parts move in relation to each other, the opponent, and the piste. Physical movement is central to those lower-level building blocks of a fencing match – not the decisions behind...

Simple vs. composite movements and techniques – illustrated examples

by Peter Gustafsson | Aug 15, 2017 | technique

For those readers who are non-fencers or fencers at beginner level, and therefore do not know all the terminology that I used in the recent definitional blog post or its followup, let me illustrate with some Youtube clips. Simple movement: In this tutorial, several...

Movements and techniques – some examples and further comments

by Peter Gustafsson | Aug 12, 2017 | Miscellaneous

This is a direct followup on the previous blog post, which put forth three definitions. The following is a set of examples of motions that belong to the three defined groups. Simple movement: There are not that many examples of this in real fencing. There are several...
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