Straight attacks.

The following drills are designed to develop the fencer's sense of distance and timing as well as the fencer's ability to maintain distance. Only straight attacks are allowed with a lunge, advance lunge, or jump lunge (ballestra). Double advances or fleche is not allowed. The attacking fencer may not run down the defender.

 

A. One fencer is designated attacker, the other is the defender and does not have a weapon. The attacker will attempt to score a touch by using distance stealing footwork. The defender will attempt to avoid being touched by keeping perfect distance.

 

B. Both fencers will hold a weapon but there will be a designated attacker and defender. The defender may

not use the weapon to avoid being touched. Distance is the only defence that may be used.

 

C. Both fencers wil hold a weapon and there is no designated attacker. Both fencers may attempt to score a touch with a straight attack. When one fencer attacks, the other must defend with distance.

http://www.fencing.net/drills/drills8.php

comes in most Monday nights smelling like they’ve been rolling around wrestling in the bottom of some nerd’s old tennis shoes. Other patrons start skooching their chairs in the other direction as soon as these fencers pick a table. The team laughs loudly, rolls up their warm ups to inspect each other’s new bruises and

Owners of the Jolly Roger Taproom in Ballard face a tough question. Do they keep hosting the Fleur de Lys drinking binges….er...I mean...training sessions?  Or do they call the police to have the ill mannered mangy dogs of a fencing team tossed out on their ears.  It’s not an easy choice. The team 

red welts.   It’s disgusting and the other patrons are starting to whine.  (cont…)

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Jolly Roger Taproom Torn Over Fencing Team

Brittany And Nicole Head For The Big Apple

adventures. You have to figure out which of them is Bing and which is Bob. In any case, the erstwhile fencers will be hitting all the major sights as they “get in touch with the real America” on this trip. We’re talking Yellowstone, Mount Rushmore, Chicago and Ohio.  After that it’s on to New York. So why are they staying in New

Jersey?  Why is it the “Garden State” anyway. Maybe they’ll find out and tell us.  Nicole will be back in a few weeks, but it may be near Turkey Tournament time before we see Brittany again. She’ll be trodding the boards at The Chautauqua Theatre Company this summer. Sweet. She’ll love upstate NY.

So, what do you do when you are young, college graduates, and really don’t have the duties of life tying you down yet? Two words: “Road Trip”.  On Friday, June 9th, Nicole Bernard and Brittany Burch are piling into Brittany’s car and heading across the country for a latter day version of one of those Bob Hope-Bing Crosby

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