mini tournament.
Match 1 - Young bloke
He was very energetic and swung the sword wildly, pretty much no
technique and relied on jumping backwards and forwards. He won 3-2
Match 2 - Same Young bloke
This time I got his timing sorted and the down side of swinging the
sword wildly is that it leaves great big gaps in the defence for me to
attack him with. I won 3-2
Match 3 - Lefthanded Bloke
I think left-handed people should be rounded up and forced to live on an
island somewhere, my attacks against him were clumsy and the match went
on for ages because neither of us could land a hit. he couldnt hit me
because his sword arm was towards my back and so off-target, and I
couldnt hit him because the angle I needed to attack with the sword was
reversed to what I'm used to and so keeps glancing off his tunic where I
would have scored a hit against a right-handed person.
Lefthanded Bloke also liked to come on strong straight from the offset,
and try to score early point, if you can resist his first few attacks he
sort of ran out of steam.
I won 3-1.
Out of the evening, I think on me and Lefthanded Bloke won 2 of our 2
matches so I guess it was a draw. I'll get him next time :-)
2 comments:
I read somewhere that half the world's fencing champions are left handers. Is that true?? If so, is it to do with the fact southpaws have better spatial awareness in general than right handers? (Not in my case; I'm left handed and my spatial awareness is rubbish.) Or is it that they're tricky to play because you don't get to practise against left handers very often? Just curious, because I know nothing about fencing.
My understanding is that left-handed fencers make up about 10% of the fencers - ie same as the general population.
Having fought Andy on Thursday, I could certainly believe that in the middle ranks of fencers, left-handed fencers might be over represented because it was very awkward to score a hit while a left-handed fencer will spend most of the practice time against right-handed fencers.
Bear in mind, were are all beginners in this tourament and we were all still trying to remember how to move our feet, let alone thinking tatically about how to make the opponent move into the position you want them to move into.
Another interesting thing which I forgot to mention in the orginal post was that out of all the fencers, the most vicious in terms of outright agression and large swings with the sword were the women. That really surprised me.
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