Fencing Club and Camps, Small group fencing lessons, Individual fencing lessons. HAVE SWORD & ARMORY, WILL TRAVAL. Recreational Fencing training, Competitive Fencing training,
Epee, Foil, Saber (Sabre)
Starting Dec. 1, 2009
Hand in Pronation.
Preparation
of Attack, Engagements, Disengagement, Press, Beat, Thrust with Lunge and Thrust without Lunge.
Hand is inSupination
for the first four basic On-Guard positions.
Fingernails are upward and the thump position is at 1
or 2 o'clock for right handed and at 10 or 11 o'clock for left handed fencers.
Some fencers repeatedly practice
parry 4 from the 6, 8 or7 position with a roll from, Supination 6, 8, or 7, with to a slight Pronation in 4.Which
is not a 4, but a parry 5, at the instant of engagement. This video addresses an injury that may occur when performing this
parries, especially if it's performed as a reflexive unforeseen action.
Sixth position
ON-GUARD HAND POSITIONSFoil
and Epee Hand Positions: All in Supination.
A defensive engagements made when going to the forth
position is called a "parry of four". If the "parry of four" is executed against an
opponent's riposte, the riposte that follows is called a "counter riposte".
