Epee Fencing Attacks : Taking the Blade in Epee Fencing

Wow! Thank you for posting these videos! They are helping me learn some new attacks in fencing.....thank you again!

what kind of saber is that!!

its an epee

I did that move on her nose and poked the back of her throat if you know what I mean.

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thanks alot for showing that. im trying to learn fencing.

Yazzarh... even if correct your point would be pedantic. but in any case it is not. a parry is simply deflecting an attack. it has nothing to do with priority in foil or sabre. it is perfectly possible to parry with no attempt to attack whatsoever. therefore "attack in opposition" would be completely inappropriate. hungarian, german, russian epeeists use parries all the time. french and cuban fencers more often use attacks in opposition and rarely parry.

The point of a parry is that it indicates a change in priority. One of the reasons why if you score a hit with a modern box the point automatically shows up, is that there is no change of parry in epee. Epee bouts are virtually not even presided - the points take care of themselves. Thus, no parries exist in epee. And those are huge sweeping generalisations in the last part of your post.

Yazz repeating a point does not make it true. no definition anywhere states parrying is dependent on priority. ALL deflections of an attack are parries, but NOT all parries are AIO. It is simply wrong to refer to a classical parry with no attempt at a riposte as an AIO. My generalisations come from 2 yrs with the French jnr team, 1year in Leverkusen wth some of the German team, training with the Cubans, and several years as a coach and WC epeeist. Where do yrs come from: youtube or the Oz?

Umm, yes, parrying has EVERYTHING to do with priority. You've obviously never fenced foil before. Okay. Let's say that priority does not exist for a second, and we're fencing foil. I come forward, and hit my opponents blade out of the way. How on earth are you meant to know whether or not that hit is my beat attack or my parry if priority doesn't exist? Thus, in epee, where there is no priority, THERE IS NO PARRYING, NOR MOVES OF ANY KIND. There are only hits, and misses.