Fencing Lesson from a French Sabre Champion! 🤺

[@SlicerSabre]

Thank you to Nicolas and San Francisco Sabre School!

[@EinsteinNewton-jo9px]

No words can express how much I love this channel.

[@robertocalvo934]

I love that his main point of reference is the tension/relaxation contradiction and, therefore, his teaching is applicable to all martial arts. Old Man Wang Xiangzhai would've approved 😅

[@iainmcclure416]

Very interesting. Two things stand out 1. The importance of building skills through sequences and patterns. Performed at speed, moving out of conscious thought into habit. Influenced by Rene Geuna and the Tarbelais way of learning sabre? 2. Learning to be quick. Neuroscience suggests we learn to do things quickly in a very different way to generalised learning. Huge implications for coaching in speed-reliant sports.

[@CrutonisHowel]

It's really brave to upload a video like this as being a non professional fencer, but you did a great job. Hard to judge it though since I guess it's a one time thing, but we got a glance on what he things about certain technical elements. I definitely heard many wild things, which would make me to avoid his classes, however it was quite interesting. I would love to see more videos like this.

[@suda2849]

Like what? You shouldn’t avoid things because they’re different. There is a deep plethora of different fencing styles and approaches that are equally effective.

[@CrutonisHowel]

@@suda2849 Like not initiating with hand, starting with feet before making the cut in retreat, increasing speed before correcting technique, this kind of things. I don't mind it, I don't say it cannot be effective, I just don't think this approach leads to long term success, I was taught differently, that's all.

[@wilfie8374]

@@CrutonisHoweloutside the middle you should almost always be going foot then hand.

[@stevep1762]

Same, he's super-critical too. A lot of what he's saying is pretty counter-intuitive, speed over technique for example. It's a tough ask to teach a very different style to an experienced fencer in a single lesson and a lot of this is spent trying to fix the step lunge technique here. But this lesson style wouldn't work for me I don't think. There are definitely some elements that were interesting though, "front foot for timing, back foot for power" is a very interesting way of looking at the prep/step.

[@archardor3392]

@@stevep1762 I got the same impressions as you immediately. Maybe he was just stressed that day.

[@bigbearfencing]

I like his "I'm here" stuff, its a cool way of explaining.

[@inscrutablemungus4143]

Wow! This is so different to the foil lessons I've gotten all my life. Though I suppose some of this is also Rousset's coaching style. My old (soviet) coach would've started angry Russian yelling if he heard the sentence, "I don't care about doing it well, add some speed!".

[@jaysharma6818]

It is very nice video and very informative also 👍 good work

[@sjsabre_23]

This is great to see, thanks!

[@SlicerSabre]

Thanks! Glad you enjoyed it.

[@constantin2704]

Beautiful lesson! Thank you for sharing!

[@sergiyberko1489]

Nice explanation of game in the middle of strip😎

[@farran1447]

Super coool

[@xPyrielx]

The first comment. Do you want to do it well or you want to add some speed. Bro like you know immediately that this guysknows what actual figthing is about :D I mean ofc at the begining you learn movement slowly but from there there is no point. You need to adapt to do it fast and well. Only then it will work.

[@mukeshkrishna8076]

Big fannnn

[@daveingram9240]

Simply Awesome...

[@EdScottPayne]

If you are wondering where the t shirt @SlicerSabre is from, it is the University of Nottingham, the UKs No.1 University for Fencing

[@FencingViolinNerd]

For the algorithm

[@2smart3guys]

great

[@ysados3240]

Why did you put the italian flag on your miniature if this fencer is french?😅

[@michaelcravey4733]

Wow

[@stevep1762]

Was there a reason your chest attacks were all through-cuts in this case?

[@SlicerSabre]

Because that was the exercise. Always a bit tricky doing subtitles for these things, some words don't translate directly. He asks me to do "banderole" which is a through cut to chest. I just put "chest" in the subtitles for sake of simplicity.

[@iainmcclure416]

Cut through to chest requires more relaxation in the wrist and arm.

[@advmsyed]

Is he a coach there in SF?

[@SlicerSabre]

Yup

[@SatinXu]

Hi,there.I would like to ask for your permission to repost your video on Chinese social media, because Chinese audiences cannot watch KZbin directly. Your video is very helpful and I will indicate the source.

[@SlicerSabre]

Sure no problem!