Shanghai GP 2018 Men's Foil Semi Final 1 Kruse GBR vs Cassara ITA

[@axelvekemans6750]

wow first real yell I've seen from Kruse! I'd have yelled too of course, fun to see

[@xDinomanx]

Watch GBR team match from London 2012 where they fought Italy, Kruse was yelling for joy in that one whenever he got a really good hit. Yes he doesn't often do it but he will if he feels it. Watch his bout with Cassara from Rio as well.

[@megnottellingyou4896]

Fantastic bout, hats off to both fencers!

[@jadetea5837]

Geez I've never seen Kruse yell before. Awesome bout

[@graemehart8917]

They've had a very long rivalry! That meant a lot.

[@xDinomanx]

@@graemehart8917 Cool lil fact too: Cassara often goes to London to train at the Leon Paul fencing centre with the british team too when he's not training with his Italian teammates. So these two have trained together many times as well.

[@bene8168]

Why don't they fence in the middle of the piste?

[@dudeofvalor9294]

as by doing that you give your opponent room to move out of the way from your attack, or step back with the parry. Better to push them to the back line where they have little room to manoeuvre.

[@graemehart8917]

Left-hander's generally stay on the left as it makes it more awkward for right-handers. The ref should start them off in the middle - he was remiss in this fight for not doing so.

[@dzfz2100]

14:01 - have the foil rules on "attack no" suddenly changed? I feel like attacks like these have been typically called in favour of the attacker in recent years... calls of this nature in this competition certainly seem a bit harsher against the attacker. I'm not saying it's a bad thing, but it certainly looks different to what calls in recent years have been.

[@cinirea]

dzfz2100 actually, the referee is giving Parry there, nothing to do with attack no

[@dzfz2100]

Gianluca Martini oh good point - I didn’t notice the ref’s call until you pointed it out. Thanks!

[@MrBobchat]

They need a chandelier to swing on for special moves

[@Cainhelm]

1 second left...

[@dzfz2100]

omg, and what a fantastic final hit too, right?! great match from two class fencers!

[@mystix1979]

I feel like cassara should’ve won this one, but still gg. This was a great match and kruse was rlly composed

[@MrBobchat]

Yeah but if someone came at them with a proper sword they'd be f**ked right up.

[@You-fools]

Nah they'd just do what you're supposed to do in a swordfight, run away.

[@LancetFencing]

why are the referees on the same stage as the fencers. so stupid

[@suda2849]

Why?