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.
Interesting staged photo. Style of shoes and pants is from decades ago. Flèche attack using electric foils but no lames or floor wires. And the guy is in sixte, aka parry 6, leaving himself wide open and not even attempting to retreat. So it’s a How To picture from days gone by.
The flèche is a dangerous move, in large part because it’s so easy to mess up the landing if your opponent parries strongly or moves sideways into your flight path.
It looks to me that the training dummy... err guy on the right... has his arm extended, not parrying. But fencing is the last sport I'd try to analyze from a still.
Tried that move in a college PE class long, long ago. The opponent stood there flatfooted looking at me. I didn't get a point because the judges were also standing there flatfooted looking at me...and not my foil's point of contact.
Interesting staged photo. Style of shoes and pants is from decades ago. Flèche attack using electric foils but no lames or floor wires. And the guy is in sixte, aka parry 6, leaving himself wide open and not even attempting to retreat. So it’s a How To picture from days gone by.
ReplyDeleteThe flèche is a dangerous move, in large part because it’s so easy to mess up the landing if your opponent parries strongly or moves sideways into your flight path.
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It looks to me that the training dummy... err guy on the right... has his arm extended, not parrying. But fencing is the last sport I'd try to analyze from a still.
DeleteTried that move in a college PE class long, long ago. The opponent stood there flatfooted looking at me. I didn't get a point because the judges were also standing there flatfooted looking at me...and not my foil's point of contact.
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