Training Tips
Training tips and drills for fencing.
Soviet Foil Drills II (Reciprocal Drills)
- By Craig Harkins
- . November 27, 2003
Circular Takes and Deceives This drill is designed to facilitate the development of hand speed, small blade work, feeling the opponents blade, and the ever
Soviet Foil Drills (Reciprical Drills)
- By Craig Harkins
- . November 27, 2003
Straight attacks. The following drills are designed to develop the fencer’s sense of distance and timing as well as the fencer’s ability to maintain distance.
Preparations of Attacks – Preparations D’Attaque
- By Craig Harkins
- . November 27, 2003
These drills are designed to help you to learn various ways of usingpreparations. Most of these are done without movement, and should be used to
Decision Point Exercises Part II
- By Craig Harkins
- . November 27, 2003
These drills point out the necessity of starting an attack with a plan, but without commitment to one set of actions.
Decision Point Exercises
- By Craig Harkins
- . November 27, 2003
Concept: Each action you take in fencing contains a decision point. At the end of an advance you ask yourself: Am I close enough to