How to Fence : What are the Different Parts of a Fencing Sword?

[Kulfur]

GUNBLADE!!!

[michwng]

Lol, your handle. Why did you paint it? You didn't have to with current machines.

[MultiMagic88]

this is my best friends uncle!

[duran3d]

The handle is so weird...

[captachaos]

It's a modern pistol grip sword. It was invented about 60 years ago, and it completely ruins a fencers technique. No good swordsmen would use such a grip.

[michwng]

@captachaos It's a German Visconti weapon. I don't think you are refering to the modern sport. Rather than detailed explaination, I'll just point out that all of the Foil Olympians use pistol grips. Note that Ota, Kleibrink, Joppich, Baldini, Cassara, and most, excluding few exceptions, of the fencers in NCAA Division I use pistol grips. This fits the modern sport. If you grip too hard, yes, it will ruin your technique. But with practice comes perfection.

[t1y2r3a4n5]

@captachaos everybody uses pistol grip in internationals and higher level fencing. But to start off its better to use French grip

[Dc45d]

oh how i miss fencing so much!

[fencingismysoul]

expert village needs to be pillaged by vikings and burned and beaten by small autistic five year olds

[EvilTanith]

Another thing is he describes the inside guard socket as a bayonet (mostly commonly used in British fencing) when the one he actually has is a two-pin (which is used pretty much everywhere else). Don't pay too much attention to these video's if you really want to learn to fence, there is no substitute for actual coaching.

[123alle321]

Do you know how to fence?

[mllfinest]

you are so retarded! you didn't mention circuits at all. german pistol grip? thats a Italian Viscaunti pistol grip. Please stop posting video you faggot. you are ruining the sport

[KatonRyu]

It's not a Viscaunti. Viscaunti grips are slightly wider and have more pronounced 'fingerholds' or whatever you'd call them.

[mllfinest]

no you are wrong

[Dc45d]

wow good job, you called a person a faggot. i bet you feel like such a big person now. next you will be saying fuck and bitch "im a big boy now"

he is not ruining the sport, anyone that knows better just knows that he is wrong and people that don't know better will learn when they get into the sport.

[mllfinest]

teaching fencing through youtube = people will think they know fencing. those people that think they know fencing will try and coach it themselves. so now you have coaches that don't know anything about fencing but yet they try to coach it. ppl that are completely nieve to the sport will trust said coaches. this will in turn be followed by "fencers" that will try and coach other people. hence ruining the sport. i've seen it happen in the ct. division. so plz dont defend something you dont know.

[edmund085]

good for killing people

[tienehip0s]

Cool video. Fencing kicks mother fucker ass!