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Coaches Compendium - The Art of Strip Coaching

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The Art of Strip Coaching. What is the Role of the Coach? In a perfect world, a coach winds the student up outside of the competition venue, gives them a little shove through the door, and returns in a few hours in time to see the student collect a medal. Engaging in pre-competition warm-up lesson or other activity. Providing information about opponents in the opening seeding rounds of the tournament, if that information is known to you, or based on your observations of the fencing. During the one-minute...

Coaches Compendium - Lies, Damn Lies, and Feints

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Lies, Damn Lies, and Feints. If you can hit with a straight attack, who cares about the parry? If you can't hit with a straight attack, why should the opponent parry.or care? Why Do We Feint? Essentially, the role of the fencer is to lie. To the opponent, while discovering what lies the opponent is telling in turn. The feint is the lie that the attacker tells the defender and gives the opponent misinformation about the attacker's timing, target placement, intention, or all three. Century fencing, though ...

A Coaching Compendium

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A FENCING COACHES COMPENDIUM. Allen Evans, Dominion Fencing. Coach Finally, in exasperation, he asked me what could I possibly be getting out of a seminar I had seen three or four or five times. I shrugged and said: "Hey, I just like working with a professional". This answer didn't satisfy him. "What do you mean by 'a professional'? He said. "What makes me a professional? What is a professional coach? What makes one coach a "professional" and another "un-professional"? Who, really, is the lesson about?

Coaches Compendium – The 1-2-3 Drill in Saber

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The Importance of Seeding, or Why Can't I Win Any DE Bouts? When I had only been fencing about a year, I started to become a regular competitor. I went to all the tournaments I could find. I did OK (not great) at the novice and E-and-under types of tournaments, but it seemed like I couldn't win a direct elimination bout at any major local tournament. I always seemed to get somebody for my first DE whom I couldn't beat. What is the purpose of a tournament and a tournament format? The ultimate goal of any ...

A Coaching Compendium - Web Sites and Resources for Your Brain

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A FENCING COACHES COMPENDIUM. Web Sites and Other Resources for Your Brain. There are few resources for the fencing coach looking for information. Elsewhere in this site. The Canadian Fencing Federation has a set of basic manuals. This is the web site of the United States Fencing Coaches Association. United States Fencing Association Coaches College Program. Page, which has some good basic foil drills. Look at Fencing: Always More to Learn. Shame on you.where else are you going to be able to see high...