by Peter Gustafsson | Dec 29, 2017 | FIE, Organizational
This post is a direct continuation of the previous one, me commenting on various decisions made at the most recent FIE meeting in Dubai. Reworked points system. For competitions that award points to the various FIE rankings, more fencers will get points. Previously,...
by Peter Gustafsson | Dec 26, 2017 | FIE, Organizational
The FIE decided a lot of things at its congress in Dubai november 25th, 2017. A 35-page summary of those decisions was put together, and the remainder of this blog post is a series of my comments on those decisions. I am commenting on many, but not all of the changes....
by Peter Gustafsson | Dec 23, 2017 | Mechanical
This post is only about a minor technological fix to s specific problem, there is nothing about fencing tactics or strategy in it. After have looked at a team match in which the referee had to remind a fencer that he had consumed his demands for video replay, it...
by Peter Gustafsson | Dec 21, 2017 | Coaching, Strategy
This post is about a way to improve your development rate by devising game plans against fencers whom you have information about, but have never fenced against. It requires quite a bit of note-taking, but none of the steps involved are intrinsically hard. If your...
by Peter Gustafsson | Dec 17, 2017 | Goal setting, Strategy
In my first blog post on goal setting, I pointed out that there are two types of errors with regard to those considerations, and this post is about an example of the second type of error. Let me repeat the definition of that type of error: Excessive risk taking...
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