How to Use a Foil in Fencing

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Hi! This is Tim Weske on behalf of expertvillage.com. In this clip, I'm going to show you about the foil. There is 3 weapons that we use for fencing. In competion olympic fencing it's called. Foil, sabre and epee. In this particular one, we're going to talk about foil. A foil weapon is a thrusty weapon. That means that you're pushing the weapon's point into the target area of your opponent. The target area for the foil is basically my chest, stomach, groin area, around my sides and my back. My arms and head are not included, so what I have to do with this weapon is push through somebody's defense. When they have their in front, I have to come in and try and touch the body, very difficult to do. In this sequence with this particular weapon, there's a rule that's called right of way, which I'll get into in another clip. All the weapons have different types of target areas. What we do is we move or thrust or fool or fake. The movement with the foils point is extremely small in that if I'm going to fool somebody, I would make a thrust to come at them and do what's called a disengage to move to the other side of the blade. I'll try to show here with the camera. I come in strait, I make a thrust telling my opponent that I'm going to hit him in the chest causing him to move or parry, which I'll show later, and then moving to the opposite side of his blade.

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