Fencing & Stage Combat Techniques : Pary in Fencing

dragade101 Says:

Mar 10, 2008 - Note about the 5th pary, you generally want it closer to the head in an x direction if you will and have some height to it. Its been a while scenes I fenced foil but if my memory serves me, we only had parys 1 through 7 or 8, we did not use a 9th could exist but was pointless. I learned it as 1 was your 3, 2 was your 4, 3 was your 7, 4 was your 1 and finally 5 was your 5. I am forgetting the 6-8 ones and which order but the 1st 5 are common in tournaments

dragade101 Says:

Mar 10, 2008 - I think that 6 and 7 where the lower shots with the straight wrist

mesulater Says:

Apr 20, 2008 - If youa re trying to teach sport fencine, there are a couple things wrong about those parries, one you are holding that pistol grip wrong. Second most of the parries arent right. Third, I dont think that 9 parry is right and if it is (I dont of know 9) the way you went from 5 to 9 was really bad and takes up way to much time. Among other things, you dont do sabre vs foil.

jemba112 Says:

Apr 22, 2008 - Hold the sword correctly first.

tsafa1 Says:

Apr 29, 2008 - Very nice saber demonstration.

MerlinTheDraconic Says:

Jun 8, 2008 - It is stage fencing, admittedly, but the parries are not excellent. Also, the pistol grip on that foil is either held incorrectly, or like no other grip that I have ever seen. Also, it's a wee bit odd to see a foilist up against a saber, but in "real life", I suppose it is unlikely that someone would only use the same weapon as their opponent.

MerlinTheDraconic Says:

Jun 8, 2008 - I've also heard what she called a "nine" parry referred to as a Hungarian Fifth.

MerlinTheDraconic Says:

Jun 8, 2008 - The biggest flaw in this that I can see is her stance, which would not be optimal if one were to try and defend oneself. If you want to see a really nice saber video, look at the 1936 olympics footage. Very nice.

mrbiggs Says:

Jul 30, 2008 - This is very, very wrong. It's actually extremely concerning. A lot of this isn't even close; the only good thing is that you got the general idea of where the parry goes for about half of the numbers. The rest of them are just 100% wrong, and the ones that are correct are very improperly executed.And more specifically, I don't know who told you about that parry 9, but not only does it not exist, but it's beyond useless. Also, why are you doing head parries in foil?

maestrodarmi3 Says:

Aug 1, 2008 - soy el maestro de esgrima enzo cherubino de la Asociación Española de Maestro de Armas e dell'Accademia d'Italia dei Maestri di Scherma, me gustaria saber que demonio estas haciendo estas señorita en este video, son una serie de errores madornales.... por favor vaya primero en una sala de esgrima aprenda de un maestro y despues hablamos es un consejo de amigo y sobre todo por el bien de la esgrima... saludos

retepish Says:

Nov 6, 2008 - I feel the need to pley devil's advicate. First of all she is talking about stage combat, that is not the same as real swordfighting. Secondly, she is cute, so you have to give her alittle bit if slack. Speaking from purely the male point of veiw.

hazzard1155 Says:

Nov 24, 2008 - I agree totally apart from the fact that the supposed "parry 9" is called the master's parry in sabre but ye its pretty much useless because it takes too long to execute. But ye why is she doing all the parrys with a foil and also parrys are in different places for certain weapons so sort it out lol!