Foil Coaching Workshop - March 25 - Adam Blight

Описание: This workshop features the topic of - How to deliver flowing, controlled and coordinated individual

A general set of guiding ideas and thought were displayed to help with the goal of delivering free flowing individual lessons.

• There is a base level of fencing capability required, so in the first instance there will need to have been some previous development of fencing skills.
• Start your lessons in a more or less standard way. Enabling your fencer to calibrate and connect with the actions of fencing, hitting, finding the blade, moving etc. And for you to get a feel for how your fencer is at that moment and connect with your fencer.
• In expanding and extending the lesson. Have a simple starting point. Reposts for e.g. are a good starting point, your fencer is most probably balanced, alert and able to respond.
• Allow your fencer to improvise and follow their intuition. Where appropriate briefly discuss the intuitive and improvised choices made and come to an agreement regarding their effectiveness.
• There is an opportunity to stop and coach elements of technique, you may choose to leave that to another time rather than disrupt the flow of the lesson.
• It's good for the fencer and coach to be familiar with each other and have an agreement over what are good choices of response to different scenarios.
• ALWAYS pre plan an unannounced or surprise action. with practice this pre planning can be on a 'just in time' basis.
• Always be 'coaching' and try not to end up 'fencing' your fencer.
• Give verbal reactions but minimise verbal instructions.
• Stop and consider before introducing elements of 'teaching', it may not be needed and it may not help.
• Areas which can be used by the coach can include - parrying offensive actions , evading s fencers attempt to find the blade, changes to available target, creating then changing rhythms, exploiting a fencers rhythmic patterns, varying distance.
• Have some fun!!!

Practice – 1. How we want our fencer to parry.
Practice – 2. Stretching the distance.
Practice – 3. Use a simple starting point - quarte.
Practice – 4. Use a simple starting point - octave.
Practice – 5. Quarte disengage, sixte disengage routine.
Practice – 6. Quarte direct, sixte direct routine.
Practice – 7. Compound/simple attack routine.
Practice 8. General practice.

For a full and comprehensive account of the activities of this workshop, go to - https://adamblight-fencing.com/docume...