How To Successfully Counter-Attack when Fencing Epee - Coach Tim Svidnytskiy

Important Technical aspects for Successful counter-attack while fencing epee: 1. Assess your opponent; If you are TALLER, STRONGER, FASTER, QUICKER or SMARTER than your opponent then you will have a much larger room for error. 1a. If you are any of those qualities above then you can afford to provoke an attack with a regular small-lunge followed by regular recovery. Because of your advantage in size, speed or whit that SHOULD be enough for your to successfully provoke an attack while still making a successful counter-attack (aka Stop-Hit) 2. For those situations when you are evenly matched to your opponent or YOU ARE WEAKER THAN YOUR OPPONENT: 2a. I recommend to provoke your opponent with a half-step where all of your body weight for a split-second will be on your FRONT FOOT. Once your weight is on the front-foot then you should push off with it while extending/stretching with your backfoot FURTHER THAN THE SPOT YOU STARTED AT initially. 2b. By moving your back foot first after a provocation you will end up recovering further back than if you would have done a simple lunge recovery. This way you will buy an extra few inches of distance will make it easier to make a quality counter-attack 3. Arm movement / tip movement: To provoke an attack from your opponent it is best to feint an attack from yourself. YOU DONT ACTUALLY NEED TO RISK IT ALL TO PROVOKE YOUR OPPONENTS 3a. Try provoking by starting with least risky actions and slowly make your way to actually scoring a hit on a hand/knee/toe. 3b. Opponent much more likely to try attacking you if he or she will feel than it is too dangerous to wait. SO IT IS YOUR JOB TO FORCE YOUR OPPONENTS TO MAKE A DECISION. If opponent will be faced with a situation where they will eventually get hit while defending then they are more likely to make an ill-advised attack at you. So make sure to use your tip as a means of REAL threat, including occasionally actually going for the hit 4. Tip Placement: If you are very good this may not be very important, because technically you can make a counter-attack to any part of the body. HOWEVER if your point-control is not perfect it can me quite difficult to make a successful counter-attack (stop hit) to a forearm. 4b. In this case I recommend practicing putting your tip right in the elbow groove of your opponent. This will lead to much more consistent results. If you practice to put the tip right into that grove then there is a higher chance of tip-button to be pressed instead of it just gliding along the forearm. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 🇨🇦 The Toronto Fencing Club and Oakville's Canadian Fencing Academy invite adults and children 6 years of age and older to individual and group fencing lessons from professional coach Tim Svidnytskiy. 🤺 Fencing, in the first place is the art of cold weaponry, as well as it develops strength, endurance, flexibility, coordination and noble fighting spirit! ✅ Qualified approach of a coach to a client of any age group allows him to achieve the goals of his students. ✅ For more information, please refer to the link below.👇🏼 ✅ https://fencingcoachtim.ca ✅   / tim_pro_fencing.  . ✅ [email protected] ✅ 647-972-5589 🇨🇦 Фехтовальный клуб Торонто и фехтовальный клуб Оквилла приглашают взрослых и детей от 6 лет и старше на индивидуальные и групповые занятия по фехтованию от профессионального тренера Тима Свидницкого. 🤺 Фехтование - это в первую очередь искусство и умение управлять холодным оружиям, а также оно развивает силу, выносливость, гибкость, координацию и благородный боевой дух! ✅ Квалифицированный подход тренера к клиенту любой возрастной группы позволяет достичь поставленных целей своих учеников. ✅ Для получения дополнительной информации, пожалуйста, перейдите по ссылке ниже.👇🏼 ✅ https://fencingcoachtim.ca ✅   / tim_pro_fencing.  . ✅ [email protected] ✅ 647-972-5589