Jacek vs Paulina - classical fencing

a short duel with smallswords made during fencing class in Fencing School Aramis in Szczecin. This video was made by a cellphone LG KU 990 Viewty with 120 fps.

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Sports

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• fencing
• epee
• smallswords
• classical fencing
• viewty
• duel
• bout
• 120 fps
• slowmo
• szpada
• pojedynek
• szermierka
• szkoła
• fechtunku
• aramis
• sfa

[shpyllah]

Exactly.. please share with us your deep experence on youtube and bring with it some motion pictures of some duels from the past, because you obviously sleep in a time machine... otherwise how could you tell that "they didn't do that in a real fight!!!"

[jbujko]

@sterlingsilverf Landscape? You mean the "Sword and Dagger - Assalto di Spada e daga sola punta" by Scrimitator? If you do then.. *sigh* The fencer in black is obvoisly the senior because he looks tired. His footwork is slow and stiff. His adversary is litlle more mobile but both look rather like killing time than one another.

[jbujko]

@sterlingsilverf Well yes I did defend myself but not because she did something wrong, she just did it in the wrong moment. And I did expect them, it's something callec tactics.

[jbujko]

@sterlingsilverf Other martial artists? Like boxers? Taekwondo guys? MMA?

I see that your line of thought is severely interrupted here - the mobility and speed comes from pushing your feet against the ground and technically speaking almost all of the steps people make are really very small jumps and imbalances. The power to move and the mobility comes from starting a jump and from landing and starting another one. Being off ground is just a part of the dynamic process which is footwork.

[jbujko]

@shpyllah Dude, there are some duels on YT from the 1913 and on but they really look crap :) Simply waving swords at one another, not too fencingish, I'd say :)

[sterlingsilverf]

And if you notice on that video, the person in white did try a few jumping attacks. You can tell that the man in black wasn't expecting them, but managed to defend against them anyway.

[sterlingsilverf]

@jbujko Fencers should not jump for the same reason most other martial artists don't. Power and balance come from the ground, through the legs. If you jump, sure you get your power from the take off with the back foot, but because you have lost contact with the ground, you have minimal balance and you can't add more power if you need to.

Also, as you can see in the video, when the fencers jump, there is a recovery time. Most fencers would pick up on that and kill you while you tried to balance.

[sterlingsilverf]

I was having trouble with the link, this is the title.

Assalto di Spada e daga sola punta 

[sterlingsilverf]

@jbujko My sala doesn't take videos, and our freinds that do post them on fb, not youtube, but I did find a decent bout. They are fencing landscape, so them not being on a piste is normal. The fencer in black is obviously the senior, both by the color of his jacket and the way he fences.

[jbujko]

@sterlingsilverf Do I? Of course I do! Do you really want to tell me that any amount of time spend off the ground is hindering a fencers effectiveness? Have you ever taken a good look at the most common dynamical imbalance there is - walking? Don't get me started on running..

Good technique is separate from tactics which is also separate from experience. Only all of those combined with proper footwork and adequate phisical traits make a proper fencer.

Proper is what is effective, not pretty