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Further, and more importantly, it maintains balance and ease of movement both forward and backward. The most common way of delivering an attack in fencing is the lunge, where the fencer reaches out with his/her front foot and straightens his/her back leg. This maneuver has the advantage of allowing the fencer to maintain balance while covering ...
The lunge is often used to deliver an attack.In sabre, the end of the attack is defined by the front foot of the lunge landing on the piste.An attack can be made with a lunge on its own, or can be made with a step-forward-lunge, which are both considered single tempo actions.
Forward Recovery – A recovery from a lunge, performed by pulling the rear leg up into en garde, rather than pulling the front leg and body backwards. Can be used to gain ground on the opponent more secretly than a standard advance, and when used sparingly can surprise the opponent by changing the expected distance between fencers.
A forwards footwork action. The rear foot moves in front of forward foot on the body's inside. From the crossed position, the front foot moves forward into the 'en garde' stance. Note: Passing forward is illegal in sabre. Patinando There are two types of patinandos, speed and tempo. They are advance lunges but with different tempos.
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Blade held up almost horizontally with bent arm, cutting edge facing upward and forward, blade has a slight tilt meaning that the point is higher than the guard. To stop cut to head. Parry quinte in sabre (from Patten's 1861 manual) [8] Sixte - Parry 6 Blade up and to the outside, wrist supinated. This parry can be Lateral or Circular.
There are two parts to the check hook. The first part consists of a regular hook. As the opponent lunges in, the boxer should throw the hook and pivot on his left foot and swing his right foot 180 degrees around. If executed correctly, the aggressive boxer will lunge in and sail harmlessly past his opponent like a bull missing a matador.
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