Fencing Advance & Retreat Footwork in Fencing

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Hi, this is Tim Weske on behalf of expertvillage.com. We are going to show you some footwork. If you would like to see more information about this you can see it swordplayla.com. Now remember, right from the beginning that the footwork that we do in theatrical combat mirrors almost exactly the footwork that we do in fencing. The reason for that is because it balances the timing and all the different things that we have talked about. Chris is going to show us some different things in advance and retreat. Remember, on your advance and retreat that there are three steps to making advance which is of the first front heel, back foot to the ball of the foot to the heel and the front foot coming down. Your feet always want to stay shoulder width apart. On the retreat step starts with the back foot first to the ball of the foot down with the heel and then the ball of foot. We will show an advance step and then a retreat step. The feet stay apart, shoulder width all the time. We have crossover step and the crossover step, the back foot steps going forward, crossover forward, he steps along. Again, remember that your shoulders are moving with you. On the crossover back the front foot starts first, it's a long step. Generally what people want to do in the beginning when they do this kind of step is they don't take as big as step that they take a much smaller step and it starts to get when you start to get tangled up. Again there's a lunge like we showed you earlier. The lunge goes, so you come out to the heel and the front foot hits the ground first. You want to make the lunge so that it is not really, really far because then you won't be able to recover from it. Recovery from a lunge is the back knee bends first, you pull yourself up with the thighs, again to the on guard position so that the feet are shoulder width apart and then make a retreat step out of that. Show us that again Chris. So a lunge, he bends the back knee, recovers with his thighs keeping his chest up and then makes one retreat step. Now, a big unique, not completely unique though (come here face this way please, go into the railroad track position, there we go) This is what we call a railroad track position rather then a tight rope which is what you just saw a tight rope but you just sort of walked just like Chris. This is more for a heavy weapon thing where it is called vaulting. If a person were to attack his foot or his leg he would vault out of position and then be able to return back to his leg and he turns back like this. If we cut at this particular leg, Chris pulls over there. So what they are doing basically is moving the body part that is being attacked out of the way.

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