Fencing Essential Skills Training

Fencing is a sport that demands a high degree of discipline, concentration and co-ordination, not to mention considerable skill. Ed Rogers provides a range of training exercises to enable fencers to practice skills in a logical and progressive manner.

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Covering foil, sabre and epee in turn, the exercises work from the basics of on guard and control of the weapon, through simple attacks, to parries, ripostes, counter-ripostes and compound attacks. The exercises can be used by two fencers of similar ability, or by coach and pupil, thereby offering a useful aid for students and coaches alike.