Thursday, March 29, 2012

Free fencing magazines online

You can download and read all FIE's official magazine issues ESCRIME as PDF files.

This is the latest:  issue: ete/2011 

you can also download Escrime XXI as  a new free application for ipad!!!

http://appfinder.lisisoft.com/app/escrime-xxl.html

Sunday, March 11, 2012

Fencing babies!

Monday, March 5, 2012

coaching videos

I stumbled upon the youtube channel of Adam Blight the other day: http://www.youtube.com/user/AdamBlight. It has some very nice sessions with his athlete, the current British Men’s Foil Champion Husayn Rosowsky that made me green with envy!
Just a sample here of foil:


and epee                                                                                                                      
                 

Watching other people fence has helped me a lot. I don't have the chance to have a long one-to-one lesson with a coach and even then the amount of things they can show me are limited, so I try to copy things from videos and practice them during bouts on more inexperienced opponents.