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

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Uploaded by on Oct 3, 2007

Learn about the different parts of a fencing sword, in this free swordplay video clip.

Expert: Brad Bogus
Bio: Brad Bogus started fencing at the collegiate level at Southwest Texas State University, now Texas State University. Since then, he has become a member of the USFA, the United States Fencing Assoc.

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  • 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.

  • 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.

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  • GUNBLADE!!!

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

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

  • @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.

  • this is my best friends uncle!

  • 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.

  • The handle is so weird...

  • 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.

  • no you are wrong

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