Montano's Trample Attack

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This is a compilation video of the attacks of Olympic Gold and Bronze Medalist Aldo Montano from Italy. It focuses on his slow, cautious attack and his fast, trample attack in an attempt to provide an analysis of them. The fist song is "Butterfly" by Crazy Town and the second song is "Life in Technicolor" by Coldplay.

Category:

Sports

Tags:

• Olympic
• Medal
• Sabre
• Saber
• fencing
• mens
• men's
• men
• aldo
• montano
• italia
• italie
• escrime

[drakenwing]

Hi im kinda noob in sabre so forgive me for asking, whats a "Trample" ?

[CyrusofChaos]

its a term that i think is a good one for his fast attack. it reminds me of the way an animal charges something: hence trample

[zeromont]

ok, so if his slow attacks are meant to draw the counterattacks so Montano can, as you said, "parry the counterattack", why is he parryting them at all if they are counterattacks on his attack and he has priority? if he the counterattack and just finishes isnt it his touch?

[CyrusofChaos]

several reasons: with sabre being what it is these days, even something that used to be called attack every time is now questionable. however parry riposte is the one call that it is very difficult to screw up. the other thing is that when people counterattack they try to close you out, look at the way pina counterattacks then closes to 4. if montano parries this then pina is completely dead. now i do not agree with this strategy, as you say if you can see the counter coming better to finish imo

[veggieboy333]

THANKS ALOT CYRUSOFCHAOS! please upload more videos like these :D

[mcirigliano52]

Call it what you want, this is nothing new in fencing. Montano moves forward with a 2nd intention and attacks when he has an opening, which is what a 2nd intention is designed to do.

[minusblame]

Yells AGAIN!

[NeoProductionsCPTV]

I thought I made that trample attack! :O NO seriously! I sort of started doing it by myself against my friends and then someone told me to look up Montano's Trample Attack.

But I thought of it more as a "Compound Attack" since it is a compound of extra steps and false paries while attacking.

[ShuyuKoukin]

@drakenwing uh..think of him as a bull getting ready to charge..but seriously montano is a pusher lol

[FProAce]

Thanks for the vids :), still watching em everytime you upload :D

I'm even spreading em around our 'club' :)

BTW: I'm a cadet sabre fencer from Belgium at the Saint-Michel guild (dunno if this is the right translation for the name but you get it right? :p)

[yihd]

@yihd Nvm ignore this question, it was stupid

[yihd]

So what if we're using his trample attack and the opponent just beats(parries) your blade quickly? Obviously priority becomes the opponents?

[4nk3r]

@drakenwing that is a jump when u go froward

[rockthesabre]

@MaestroKong ... Just practice. it requires a relaxed but controlled grip on the weapon and fluid wrist motion. Really works the forearm! I have never heard of a "#5 sabre" or whatever. It's my understanding that all weapons must meet the same measurements, bend, etc in order to be used in competition. However, an older blade will have more give to it and "flick" a lot easier than a brand new blade. But all of that movement comes from the fencer, not the weapon!

[MaestroKong]

you're def. right. I fenced more often and played with the blade and my fore arm got stronger, making it much easier to wave it around.