Romanian sabre lesson

A Romanian sabre warm up lesson at the European Championships 2011. Interesting to compare the Russian and Romanian warm up, each of the Romanian fencers received a 15 minute lesson and the Russians did running and footwork exercises together as a team and did not receive lessons.

[@Voiv]

Very interesting comparing all these warm-up videos. Without wanting to stereotype based on 30 minutes of footage, you can get a bit of an insight into each country's focus. Romanian looks to focus on clean actions, nothing too flamboyant, built on a strong engarde, a fast-hand and controlled smooth footwork. The French, seems much more free-flowing, with emphasis on blade-preparations. And the Russians, massive emphasis on powerful footwork, backed up by a wide variety of footwork preparations

[@marshallelitefencing]

Adam.. loving the conversation with you and Steve G.

[@AdamBlight]

Hi Stu, especially about the refs briefing wanting to call more actions together, maybe they should let the fencers in on some of this, I saw Tarentino getting his black card after he nearly hit an official, If the fencers know how the referees are going to call things, they are not going to blow their top. Also interesting to compare the Romanian an Russian warm up, the Romanians got an individual 'technical' warm up one after the other and the Russians under got a very good team warm up - kzbin.info/www/bejne/jIGVhaakat2UaK8 & kzbin.info/www/bejne/mYaUoqCNfs9mZsk , but as I recall the Germans beat them largely with energy and determination.

[@AdamBlight]

@Voiv Also the fact that the Russians are working as a team. I had the opportunity to watch some of the Russians receiving lessons on previous days in the training are (couldn't video unfortunately), very good and comprehensive lessons. As the lessons were mostely without masks, one of the officials was given the job of telling the coach that the fencer should be wearing a mask, the coach told the official to 'go way' or words to that effect....ha ha!

[@cl0206]

this is awesome, thank you for posting

[@jurgenwittmann283]

AdamBlight Did I hear right? You dont wear masks during fencing training? I started sabre fencing half a year ago in a German Club. I am fascinated by this sport and now it is very important for me. A seven year old boy played in my neighbourhood and he saw how I train ropeskipping and footwork in front of my house in the sun... he wanted to know, what I do... ... ... now he is a fencer, too. But the first information I gave him: please wear a mask during training...

[@Voiv]

@AdamBlight definitely very interesting about the Russians. Should also be said, that footwork session Bauer took had more "meaningful" content to it then a lot of full individual lessons I've seen given. It may not be flashy, but its absolute top quality and very relevant.

[@AdamBlight]

I think you are quite right, it looks like Corvalui.

[@ivanlucero4415]

nice video

[@crigri2]

coach Mihai Covaliu

[@raymondkoren2113]

Ive heard that it is believed that the reasoning for the legs not being a target in sabre is the idea that on a horse if you strike them in the legs they're still on a horse. Can any practitioner confirm or deny whether this is actually a held belief in sport fencing?

[@eoagr1780]

Raymond Koren that’s what many sport fencers believe, but nothing farther from the truth. Sport saber fencing comes from late Italian sabre dueling, which was a manner of arranging disputes with a set a rules and not a duel to death as many believe. Which was then made into a sport. If you think about it it’s impossible to face the same way fencers do on foot, than on horse. Most modern fencers are clueless of their own history, unfortunately many of them only care for the sport aspect.

[@matthewpham9525]

@@eoagr1780 Not true about the dueling actually, this same type of fencing was taught in Italian as well as Hungarian military academies for the purpose of killing.

[@kryan]

Steve - *shh*, we're watching.

[@TorryKratch]

Technically precise action arm. 12:37 An example of what I do not understand. Why modern fencers take away the support of left foot on the lunge (mean slope on the edge of the foot sole of the shoe)?

[@Vesivian]

More range with the sliding

[@Senecart81]

Yes I agree, I was taught that it was a fault and it is possible to retain contact with the strip with the sole, making it easier to come back out of the lunge...but the classical ideal doesn't necessarily win championships. 😁

[@geringasG]

Helps slow down, also full flexion of ankle is used at a tiny angle when lunging on the run. If you lunge shorter from standing still you can leave the foot flat to prepare a continuation of the attack like reprise. This is more important for actions in the first 4m in modern fencing. In modern fencing the speed is higher and also the referee will not permit a continuation of a long attack except for a massive error from the defender. Since continuation is a loosing action most of the time, the foot placement is disregarded and slower speed lunges are not emphasized (too easy to miss and give away a valuable opportunity to attack to the opponent). Instead, recovering backwards is emphasized to prevent loosing the double hit and lunging with some speed is emphasized to prevent escape of the defender which gives them a turn to attack. A flat rear foot makes no difference in recovering the lunge backwards which initiates from the front foot and to make the foot flat can also shorten the extension phase of the lunge and compromise its top speed.