Fencing parameters

Written by Athlete Analyzer
Updated 1 year ago

Type of action

  • Offensive - when you attack
  • Defensive - when you defend
  • Counter attack - you attack into opponent's attack
  • Counter time / second intention - All actions against a counter attack (parry riposte, arrêt, etc.)
  • Infighting - hits scored in close combat

Fencer

Who performed the actions Every parameter should be from this person's perspective.

  • Me (You or your athlete)
  • Opponent

Area hit

Where on the body did the touch occur.

Epee

  • Head
  • Front hand
  • Front forearm
  • Front upperarm
  • Torso
  • Back
  • Back hand
  • Back forearm
  • Back upperarm
  • Front thigh
  • Front tibia
  • Front foot
  • Back thigh
  • Back tibia
  • Back foot


Foil

  • Torso 1
  • Torso 2
  • Torso 3
  • Torso 4
  • Back
  • Invalid area


Sabre

  • Forearm
  • Internal (Chest and areas inside of the weapon)
  • External (Back and areas outside of the weapon)
  • Back

Piste position

Where on the piste did the score occur?

  • Your end zone
  • You zone 
  • The box (Middle zone)
  • Opponent’s zone
  • Opponent’s end zone

Distance

The distance between you and your opponent when the attack was initiated

  • Short range - you can land a hit with one step
  • Mid range - you can land a hit with lunge
  • Long range - you can land a hit with step-lunge
  • Extra long range - you need more than step-lunge to land a hit

Final tempo (offensive)

How did you finish the attack?

  • No leg  movement
  • Marché
  • Lunge
  • Flunge
  • Fleche

In preparation

Check if the attack was during "opponent preparation". During the opponent's step forward to attack.

Type of counter offensive

Was it a defensive or offensive move from the opponent?

  •  Defensive -  a counter against a defensive move from the opponent
  •  Offensive -  a counter against a offensive move from the opponent

Movement (Counter offensive foil)

  • Closing the distance
  • Breaking the distance

Type of Touch

What kind of touch did you execute?

  • Straight hit
  • Flick
  • Cut
  • In opposition

Blade action

Did you contact the opponent's blade when attacking?

  • With blade action
  • Without blade action

Type of blade contact

How did you contact the opponents blade?

  • Beat
  • Binding

Position (Offensive with blade action)

Your position:

  • 1 - Prime
  • 2 - Seconde
  • 3 - Tierce
  • 4 - Quarte
  • 5 - Quinte
  • 6 - Sixte
  • 7 - Septime
  • 8 - Octave

Type of defence (defensive)

  • Parry-riposte
  • Counterparry-riposte
  • Arrét

Position parry (defensive parry-ripost)

  • 1 - Prime
  • 2 - Seconde
  • 3 - Tierce
  • 4 - Quarte
  • 5 - Quinte
  • 6 - Sixte
  • 7 - Septime
  • 8 - Octave

Closing the line

With opposition, e.g. first a straight hit and thereafter closing the line in position 1-8

  • With closing the line
  • Without closing the line

Feints

If you made one or more fake attacks in your action

  • No feints
  • One feint
  • Several feints

Type of offensive

Epee:

  • One tempo - Single tempo of final action
  • Two tempos - Two tempos of final action with hand and/or leg movement
  • Multiple tempos - Multiple tempos with hand and/or leg movements

Foil:

  • Short Attack - Within one segment of the strip
  • Long Attack - Over multiple segments of the strip
  • Attack in preparation - Static (from the ready fence) Attack from the ready fence
  • Attack in Preparation - Dynamic (during fluid action) Attack in Preparation during fluid action

Sabre:

  • Short Attack - Within one segment of the strip
  • Long Attack - Over multiple segments of the strip
  • Reprise - Continuation of an attack

Offensive execution

Foil:

  • Direct attack - Single line
  • Composed attack - Multiple lines

Sabre

  • Direct attack - Attack in one line
  • Composed attack - Attack switching lines

Type of defensive

  • Parry-risposte
  • Counterparry risposte - Parry after an opponent's parry
  • Distance Defense - Make the opponent fall short

Type of counter offensive

Epee

  • Attack in Preparation
  • Counter Attack on Preparation - Score during opponent's preparation
  • Interception - Attack in the transition from preparation to action
  • Counter Attack on Action - Score during opponent's final action

Foil

  • Opening - Opening the distance
  • Closing - Closing the distance

Sabre

  • Opening - Opening the distance
  • Closing - Closing the distance
  • Attack in Preparation

Intention

  • Creating - Active fencing
  • Withholding - Letting the opponent take the initiative

Second intention

Clear intentional provocation of a reaction by the opponent

Preparations

Epee

  • Push & Pull - In and out of close distance
  • Tip & Line - Pressure with the tip or line transitions
  • Blade - Beat, binds or pressure on the opponent's blade
  • Push & Pull with blade - Combination of two types
  • Push & Pull with Tip & Line - Combination of two types
  • Without preparation

Sabre

  • Slow
  • Fast
  • Slow/Fast
  • Fast/slow
  • Without preparations
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