Fun as it was to teach the All Blacks, what you see them displaying in the (previous post)is mainly childish flailing, that's to be expected, as they only had an hour to train. However, I wanted to show these clips from the 2010 swordfish finals as it shows fencers at the height of their game.
In the first clip Axel P and his trainer Anders L fence with steel longswords
and in the second (the rapier final)Phil and Colin, look at 2.15-2.19 for an excellent example of the correct mind set, Phil attacks, then immediately moves back, fully mindful of his defence afterwards, outstanding.
I hope you enjoy this, Dave
Nice:) I have a sneaking suspicion I understood about 10% of what was going on. But it was interesting to see something a bit more advanced.
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