Foil Coaching Workshop - March 25 - Adam Blight

This workshop features the topic of - How to deliver flowing, controlled and coordinated individual A general set of guiding ideas and thought were displayed to help with the goal of delivering free flowing individual lessons. • There is a base level of fencing capability required, so in the first instance there will need to have been some previous development of fencing skills. • Start your lessons in a more or less standard way. Enabling your fencer to calibrate and connect with the actions of fencing, hitting, finding the blade, moving etc. And for you to get a feel for how your fencer is at that moment and connect with your fencer. • In expanding and extending the lesson. Have a simple starting point. Reposts for e.g. are a good starting point, your fencer is most probably balanced, alert and able to respond. • Allow your fencer to improvise and follow their intuition. Where appropriate briefly discuss the intuitive and improvised choices made and come to an agreement regarding their effectiveness. • There is an opportunity to stop and coach elements of technique, you may choose to leave that to another time rather than disrupt the flow of the lesson. • It's good for the fencer and coach to be familiar with each other and have an agreement over what are good choices of response to different scenarios. • ALWAYS pre plan an unannounced or surprise action. with practice this pre planning can be on a 'just in time' basis. • Always be 'coaching' and try not to end up 'fencing' your fencer. • Give verbal reactions but minimise verbal instructions. • Stop and consider before introducing elements of 'teaching', it may not be needed and it may not help. • Areas which can be used by the coach can include - parrying offensive actions , evading s fencers attempt to find the blade, changes to available target, creating then changing rhythms, exploiting a fencers rhythmic patterns, varying distance. • Have some fun!!! Practice – 1. How we want our fencer to parry. Practice – 2. Stretching the distance. Practice – 3. Use a simple starting point - quarte. Practice – 4. Use a simple starting point - octave. Practice – 5. Quarte disengage, sixte disengage routine. Practice – 6. Quarte direct, sixte direct routine. Practice – 7. Compound/simple attack routine. Practice 8. General practice. For a full and comprehensive account of the activities of this workshop, go to - https://adamblight-fencing.com/docume...