And what country can preserve its liberties if their rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit of resistance? Let them take arms. The remedy is to set them right as to facts, pardon and pacify them. What signify a few lives lost in a century or two? The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.
Left attacks, right parries forte to foible. Repost is from the right, scores. Left starts a second attack but does not have the tempo; it's right's point. Notice that right has retreated into the end zone of the piste, but still has one foot on so he is not out of bounds. Well trained.
These movements are hard to call. You could see it as left attacks, mal parry from right, left completes the attack from a low line; point left. But I'd say that's not correct; after the initial arm extension which signifies the attack, left pulls his elbow back: he is no longer attacking and thus does not have right of way. So the new attack is from the right, and again left impulsively does some kind of reprise, but is not in tempo.
The challenging part is that this clip is in slow motion. The action is probably 3 times faster than what you see here.
Left attacks, right parries forte to foible. Repost is from the right, scores. Left starts a second attack but does not have the tempo; it's right's point. Notice that right has retreated into the end zone of the piste, but still has one foot on so he is not out of bounds. Well trained.
ReplyDeleteThese movements are hard to call. You could see it as left attacks, mal parry from right, left completes the attack from a low line; point left. But I'd say that's not correct; after the initial arm extension which signifies the attack, left pulls his elbow back: he is no longer attacking and thus does not have right of way. So the new attack is from the right, and again left impulsively does some kind of reprise, but is not in tempo.
The challenging part is that this clip is in slow motion. The action is probably 3 times faster than what you see here.
Drew458
Completely agree. 60 years of sword play and that is hit for the right.
ReplyDeleteGiorgio Santelli's school was near me c.1978, would see him now&then.
ReplyDeleteFencing is one of the reasons my knees are as bad as they are today.
ReplyDeleteIsn't green lighting up before red though ?
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