Lopez's Counterattacks

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This is a compilation video of the counterattacks of Olympic Gold and Silver Medalist Nicolas Lopez from France. It focuses on his stop cut and attack in prep counterattacks in an attempt to provide an analysis of them. The fist song is "No Time for Time" by Tommy Guerrero and the second song is "Summertime" by Sublime.

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Sports

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• Olympic
• Medal
• Sabre
• Saber
• fencing
• mens
• men's
• men
• Lopez
• nico

[ciccibucci831]

Someone can say me what are the name of the songs in this video? The first is awesome!

[CyrusofChaos]

they are no time for time by tommy guerrero and doin time by sublime. if you like the music in future videos, check the video information, i have it listed there most of the time

[dbssaber]

I think the huge thing about Lopez is his footwork. He rushes back, almost completely off-balance, but gets his feet under him almost imperceptibly. This really makes his opponents want to hold, since they see him off-balance rushing back and miss his weight-shift.

[MaestroKong]

In high school fencing, I use this as my signature move so I don't use it that often (attack in prep), but it works great. What I do is see my opponent's foot rise up while he is advancing and I jump right in for the one light. It's a beautiful move! Crazy how Lopez does it all the time...

[Angel0fAnarchy]

I don't mean to brag, but I felt like I had a really good stop cut and the best one in my high school conference . . . and then I saw Lopez's. Damn those are just beautiful.

[neverenough1984]

CyrusOf Chaos videos are the best sabre fencing coach in the world! :D

I learnt to do that "stop-cut" counterattack from this video, and when my coach sees me doing it he is always yelling: "where the hell do you learn this stuff, stop doing it!!!" but the truth is that he is impressed, i'd say ^.^

Truly this videos do a great service for the fencing community, special to us the sabre fencers, because (indirectly) encourages us to try these actions in the piste. Congratulations, keep going!

[NicholasFenix]

I love his footwork. He must be a beast to go up against. The way he uses his back foot to create the explosive attack is incredible. His front foot gives very minimal if any tell, and it helps hide his weight shift and his range of attack. And CoC...excellent job on all of the fencing vids.

[annemarieaue]

he's amazing !!!

i'm going to try this one :P

[ShuyuKoukin]

wth....

[Blad0506]

I would love to see videos like this about Foil Fencers.

[NeoProductionsCPTV]

He must have had to practice that like a hundred times with his coach or friends at his fencing gym to make his stop-cut that efficient.

[RadricTycho]

Also, his weight-shifts are incredibly fast, this is probably why he can do what you are talking about. Even when he is on balance he fakes his weight shift over and over. Look at the touch around 3:40 - 3:45 against Pina, and then again later at 5:21 and again at the last touch at 6:00. His back and forth shifting looks like it would make it incredibly hard to hold on an attack. It would seem that a smooth medium length attack would be best against that stuff. That or 2nd intention.