18:00 Fencing

Warm up

Bouts.

1. (C) 15-11
2. (B) 15-10
3. (A) 3 -15
4. (C) 15 -5
5. (A) 11-15
6. (B) 15-10

It was interesting to see how much some of the younger fencers had improved over the Summer. I also had a nice revelation about distance and attacks with absence of blade. I normally like to pull distance and set up a counter or a parry riposte. Today I worked on closing distance and forcing my opponent to attack from close distance. If the pulled their arm back I took an aggressive counter, if they attacked straight I took a simple parry quarte. Worked very well and allowed me to control the bout.