by Peter Gustafsson | May 20, 2019 | tactics
I saw two quite instructive epee matches at the Swedish youth championships this last weekend. Match 1: First DE round, score is 5-12 (or something like that) with less than a minute left until the first period break. Then, the fencer with the big lead starts to do...
by Peter Gustafsson | May 9, 2019 | Competition formats
After going right for the payoff in form of final results, let us backtrack and look at the competition in the chronological order. Before the DE stages, all fencers fenced together in 5-point matches. Prior to the first matches, the fencers were ranked according to...
by Peter Gustafsson | May 8, 2019 | Organizational
Here are the final standings in the three classes: Men’s senior, Women´s senior, and Men´s cadet. All fencers fenced together until the DE stages started, at which point the genders were separated into two DE trees. Men’s seniors and cadets fenced in the...
by Peter Gustafsson | May 8, 2019 | Competition formats
My club has just hosted the second annual version of the Colley Gustafsson Grand Prix. I am only now coming down from the endorphin rush. Some thoughts, not in any specific order: The competition system produces nailbiters by the boatload. More on that in a more...
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...
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