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For the beginner So! You want to learn to fence Fencing is an individual sport. It is not easy to master. Learn to take your time-Essential. Firstly what you must expect from any club. Your first impressions are important - to both you and to the club. This is quite normal. There will be the experienced fencers warming up. Fencers clambering into kit in preparation to fence. Fencers waiting to join the first class of the evening, these will be the beginners like yourself. It is from them you will get the true nature of the club, the standard of instruction and the general ambience. All you should really be concerned with in the beginning is learning to fence. Safely - efficiently - correctly - at your pace The Salle JEUDI Group have a planned 10/6 week course's of lessons that will in no time have you challenging the more advanced fencers. Within a few weeks you will find both your fitness and fencing technique improve in leaps and bounds. With our courses you can start at any time. Each student is an individual and therefore your instruction is tailored to your individual progress. The group policy is that all our fencers are honour bound help new students. It may at first to appear silly but you will be helping them too. We all need to return to basics, even the best of us |
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Preparation What you need to wear? For your first night introduction to fencing we recommend the following: Tee shirt top Tracksuit bottoms Training shoes Equipment What you need to have? Nothing! All equipment can be supplied by all of the group clubs. This is not the case with all fencing clubs. The Cost Initial Training courses at Salle JEUDI 10 x 1½ hour sessions. + time Fencing. Fees £50.00* or 6 x 1½ hour sessions. + time Fencing. Fees £30.00* Note each Group Club Has its own fee structure.
*Includes membership Professional tuition. Loan of fencing equipment Venues Click on The Group Club Shield for further information. |
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All clubs are constantly looking for new recruits. Courses are run by in large from the beginning of each academic term. You will join a group of beginners, few of whom will have ever fenced before. Salle JEUDI are prepared to take on individual students at any time. Using our existing experienced fencers to help you through the early stages. |
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AN EXAMPLE OF PROGRESSIVE LESSONS FOR CLASS INSTRUCTION OVER A PERIOD OF FIFTEEN HOURS Any example of a progression of lessons can only be of a variable nature; so much depends on the receptivity of a class and individual powers of assimilation. The following progression covers the work, which can be undertaken successfully for a class of average mental and physical adaptability. It is entirely up to the instructor or school to decide whether the programme set out should be covered in ten or fifteen hours. The main object is that the class should attain a high standard of proficiency in each subject before passing to the next one. The progressions deal with sessions of one and a half hours. 1st Session (a) A short history of fencing and the evolution of the sword. (b) Introduction to the foil. (c) The grip. (d) Explanation of how the weapon is wielded, finger-play. (e) The stance. (f) The basic position of “on guard”. (g) The salute leading to the on-guard position. 2nd Session (a) Revision. (b) Gaining and breaking ground. (c) The development. (d) The eight fencing positions. 3rd Session (a) Revise b and c as a limbering up lesson of Session 2. (b) The lines. (c) The hit. (d) The straight-thrust. (e) The engagement, covering, absence of blade, change of engagement. |
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4th Session (a) Revise b, c, d, e, of Session 3. (b) The disengagement. (c) The principle of defence. Simple parries. 5th Session (a) Routine limbering (consists of gaining and breaking ground and the execution of known attacks with the development to allow the class to loosen and warm up). (b) The direct riposte. (c) Circular parries. (d) Semicircular parries. 6th Session (a) Routine limbering. (b) Revision of b, c, d, of the 5th Session. (c) The cut-over. (d) The counter-disengagement. 7th Session (a) Routine-limbering. (b) Revision of parries followed by direct ripostes. (c) Revision of subjects so far covered. 8th Session Routine limbering, and revision of subjects so far covered. 9th Session (a) Routine limbering. (b) Explanation of the principles of compound attacks. (c) The one-two. The double. 10th Session Routine limbering. Free play Examinations |
Basic Beginners courseA short history Introduction to fencing Group lessons Individual lessons Overall aims A short historyA brief history of fencing, in combat training. A history of fencing, as a sport. The weapons used and how they are wielded. Safety within the sport of fencing. Development of modern fencing, as a sport, or recreation. Introduction to fencingFencing is a sport of mobility and tactical ability. Requiring a depth of knowledge and skill. Fencing is a sport requiring skill in weapon handling. Requiring the skill both of blade placement and timing. Basic control of the weapon, the grip and making the hit. Fencing by its very name means to attack and defend. The student will also learn to defend you target area. The parry-riposte, defence and reply. Fencing requires you to put all these skills into action. These will be in the form of group and individual lessons. Group lessonsTo put into practice the concepts within the introduction section. (working as a group and in pairs,) The student will learn the value of mobility, correct distance between fencers, methods of delivering a simple attack. The student will learn the methods of defence, the parry, the step backwards, the judgement of |
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The Hit. The action of placing the point on the opponent with a force sufficient to show a character of penetration or To be recorded by the electric scoring apparatus. |
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Disengage. An indirect simple attack or riposte hitting in the opposite line, by passing under the opponent's blade. |
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distance that makes you into a fencer. The student will gain knowledge of the how-why-when, tactical skills. The student will learn the technique of group training. Working with others in the group, helping or being helped by your partner to attain these skills. Individual lessonsTeaching the above concepts to a single pupil on a “one to one basis” . Working up individual skill techniques and timing that are vital to the process of becoming a fencer. Combining all the separate sections of the group lessons into a single lesson. Overall aimsWhen you learn to fence you are learning a sport that is fast and furious. You will find you reaction times will improve, your overall fitness will in time improve. Modern fencing is a sport developed from Duelling. The basic concept of hitting without being hit is still uppermost in the mind of the modern fencer. For it is from the basic simple operation of learning to hit an opponent correctly that all the above concepts are found. Fencing can offer the student many options, social grouping within a sport, team learning skills, team co-operation techniques, individual skills, concepts of skill ability. Individual skill is on the face of it the most important, but this must be allied to team work and is paramount to the group as a whole. |