Setting up a -Flick- aka Hit with a Cutover -Fencing Lesson - Epee

All right, anything in particular you want to work on? I feel like every time I ask you that question, you're like, oh my God, nobody has ever asked me this before. Cod rovers? Perfect. All right, let's warm up, one, no armpits, they're stinky, aim for my torso, disengage, okay, so one, two, three, just warm up for a minute, get used to my timing and tempo, good, come back, up, and the fourth hit right here. We'll get to cod rovers in one second. You're like, ah, I want to do them already, great, great, great. The reason I'm doing this is because we're going to start codding or we're going to slap me otherwise. See, where's the hit? Up, up. What happened? No patience. One, two, three, give me all four hits without mistakes, thank you. All right, very simple, provoke, separate, so front foot half step, back foot shoots out, so one, two, as soon as I look to reach for it, cod over and hit, up, good, up, so anticipate, don't let me catch your blade and not on the outside, all right, so ideally, just simply up and down. If it lands flat or you miss, whatever the case, you'll at least have either the opportunity to extend your arm for a remise or you might be able to parry after all those options apply. Good, push, palm, soften up, and yeah, so after the flick, reposition for opposition right there. All right, so you just kind of provoke, push, push, so it's good for kind of stopping them in their path, soft arm, after the flick, you need to capture their blade in four a little bit, I got you, anticipate with your fingers, yeah, yeah, yeah, palm, palm, over and back, over and back, four, get it, much better, nice, push, better, uh-huh. Accelerate on the way down, so you're accelerating the way up and then you delay it coming down. If I do even a quarter step into a distance, right, you can just flick it, maybe kind of like put like a little diamond on a ring, you know, staple it on, up, push, yeah, that's a chance, finish with your finger, oh, oh, that was a good sound, right, if you hit it land flat, I know you'll never hit, but if it's a thud like this, I know just give yourself half a centimeter more and they're going to start going in, oh, oh, that's why you need to soften up your arm after the flick, push, recapture, hit, so it's very far basically, palm, all right, be ready again, all right, you see, that's why you need to soften up because why would you have to do that, if you cut over, I take it off, four, close it in, there it is, that's better, four, good, attempt it, nice, uh-huh, feint direct, direct feint, there it is, flick, four, push, there it is, up, you can't feint by raising your tip up, your opponent must believe what, they must believe that your intentions are to hit me directly, so then I feel like, oh, if I parry, I'll be successful, if I don't have that feeling as your opponent, I'm not going to parry, I'm going to do something else, good, good, and make me, so I do nothing, good job, you go for the head, make me believe that I should parry next time, right, push, push, there it is, up, up, oh, there it is, much better, and again, we work with it, uh-huh, nice, uh-huh, nice, good, cut over, four, re-punch, yes, so it becomes basically in both directions, now, if you're prepping and I look to defend myself with a parry, you can look to maybe disengage or you can look feint, cut over as a prep action, right, to get me to come attack you, so you prep, now, half step to make this hit, step back, circle, six, there you go, it's not important whether six, four at this point in time, but just practice both sides, up, nice, you don't need to do these double and triple half steps, you can just, you know, carefully come up, just feint, as soon as I reach for the blade, push, there it is, that's it, push, back foot will come up, yeah, good, up, back foot shoots off, nice, up, six, just do six, we just did a bunch of hits in four, let's do six this time, back foot shoots off, right, oh, yeah, my fault, my fault, the wrong time, up, back foot, there you go, six, the body wants to take four, right, there it is, that's it, uh-huh, good, nice, don't rush, tip up, down, be careful, don't move forward as you tip lifting up, do nothing, once the tip is up, as soon as it starts moving down, then you can look to finish, no, that was a disengage and then a cut over, up, down, there's better, now finish with your fingers, up, down, last few times you hit me here, you could do a smaller step, you'll land right within first inch, oh, much better, I got you, use your left leg to get out, left leg, there it is, that was a disengage, yeah, now this time, let's say I do just a short little commitment, cut over, get out, six, repass to the elbow, get out, uh-huh, I did nothing, my fault again, I reached too much, there you go, ay-ay-ay, back leg, back leg, so you see, you're getting me like in the shoulder area, oh, been a while since you did a lesson with me, I make you move, when you move, I move, just like that, yes, nice, parry four, nice, but put it to the elbow now, there it is, fingers, you don't need to fit full extension, half and have it already kind of like slow dig, that's it, there it is, and don't throw your shoulder, uh-huh, be ready, paint, cut, six, see your blade, not too much, but a little bit going upwards, keep it parallel to the floor, we'll pretend we didn't see that, it's not a point of principle, you know, you got to make that happen now, that's a disengage, cut over, cut, six, it's landing a little too soon, yeah, that's right, I always say this stuff happens in competition, don't aim for the forearm, the parallel target your point control is not that good, aim two centimeters further into your vertical target, at least you won't miss, like as long as you don't miss left to right, you should be okay, okay, something like that, okay, much better, good, I feel like when I take six, that's when you're the worst, and oh, much better, good, same idea, double cut over, same direct, parry, cut over, only halfway, right, so don't go all the way down, cut over halfway, cut over again, you might be able to even get a little lunge into the elbow, so one, two, come in, one, two, there it is, use your legs, that's it, that's a little far, and you're doing like a little side twist, right, paint, good, now cut over, and when you're about to lower, that's when you do a little hop, like if you want to get some distance on it, you faint, you hop, that's when you first cut over, then you have a second one, so you can do a hop lunge and get some length on you, faint, hop, cut over, sideways, if you're doing the vertical cut over, if I take six, you just clear it and go straight, all of this side stuff, you know, it's cute, if you want to do it on your terms, go ahead in the lesson, I'll play that, practice simple, effective tools, up, and enter, oh, okay, so again, you're entering on a cut, that's not the case, faint, up, enter, back up, lunge, so as it's coming down, there's got to be some threat, right, that's why we'll carry again, yeah, so so good, up, do nothing, as it comes down, hop, up, lunge, there it is, one, all right, again, see, it's a little off, uh, hop, uh, oh, that's a disengage, two cut overs, I see why you wanted to work on it, and again, so on the second one, your tip was a little behind, and you already completed the step, tip leads the way with everything, when it moves, then you move, much better, circle six, or just six, that's fine, six, yeah, right in here, hop away, close out the body, I feel like if I accelerate, I'm gonna get you on the shoulder every time, one, two, get out, nice, that's where we should finish, okay, try again, one, two, six, feel like you're a little bit like this, you're a little hunched over, especially when you take six, I need you to open up your wings, you know, kind of spread your positioning here, two, six, I got you here, so if I'm getting you, don't come in so much, you can lunge and blade, bend the blade this much, or you can lunge, hit, and have it this much bend, just a lot less, you'll be a little further, oh, don't drop that arm, oh, see, the blade is out, if I put a piece of like a marble here, it's gonna roll to you, it's gotta stay in one spot, one, two, six, slow, up, I got you, okay, so you got the mechanics, now the legs, talk to them, lefty, righty, hello, how are you guys, can we be more like the bounce ball, you know, dun, dun, dun, dun, dun, dun, just tush, tush, tush, get in, get out, yeah, fencing is easy, did you know that, one, two, six, tush, oh, it's a little better, I got you on the second one, one, ah, one, two, it's almost a premeditated action, right, that's when it works the best, as if you already know that your opponent, she has a tendency of catching the parry, you just give him the blade for a split second, cut over and touch, one, two, that's better, one, two, ah, where's the finish, do you notice how it's kind of like a little with a half turn, yeah, keep it completely vertical, up, down, up, tush, whoa, you went fishing there, how many did you catch, like 10 I looked, and again, why so many times to the armpits, ew, they smell, you want your tip of the weapon to smell bad, where, well, you don't know where, right here, see, flat portion, right in here, up, oh, that's a good landing pad for it, that side you always kind of a little weaker on, one, two, get right to the crevice, so if I take first six, show through the outside, right for the crevice, and you see, in the end, why it worked, because you cut over and you did a real hit, you didn't do the viking chop, right, yeah, I know that desire, just cutting and chopping the vegetables, you know, but it's not carrots and broccoli here, tush, much better, oh, at least we got a direct touch, nice, so, now the challenge, don't let me touch your blade even once, I feel like plank, plank is not the way to go, up, much better, good, very good, good, up, up, much better, you cut up, good, don't lean, just make that hit, tush, there you go, now I will have to respect you, uh-huh, cut, cut, six, much better, good, same idea, moving around, as soon as I do a step forward, faint, cut over, cut over, flash, good, up, you want to catch me on my counter movement in this case, so, if I am standing right here, say on this white line, I don't want to see lots of work, but all within like 30 centimeters, you're not going to get me to move too much, a little bit of pressure, let go, come in, you can do over pressure, but make sure there's room for me to make mistakes, then change your cadence, good, yes, nice, up, there you go, right, so if I step forward with a surge, one, two, it might be a short flash if I do a big careless step, or if I'm really good, right, you might have to use that opportunity at this type of distance, so cut, cut, and you commit with a good flash, good, right, nice, good, I'm defensing, right, right, so start paying attention to the pattern, you notice, you give me some pressure, I back away, as soon as you let go, I do a step forward, oh, so all of a sudden, you know when to attack, you're going to apply pressure, let go, and now you're anticipating that step with the surge, cut, cut, come in, or maybe in real bout, maybe just one cut over will be enough, you don't have to make it so complicated either, good, apply, apply, release, I reach, cut, push, that's it, you play on the inner desire of hitting you, your opponent wants to hit you, believe it or not, yes, up, there you go, apply, apply, apply, get out, the idea is there, I don't know why you went all the way down to the floor for it, looks like you wanted to sweep the floors for us, oh, very good, now it's something like that, let's go, a couple more, nice, cut, cut, cut, shears, cut over, cut over, there it is, you're a little hesitant, see what was that, why are you hiding the weapon down, you're supposed to lift over and show me threat, when I see threat, it's my instinct then reacting, you gotta tap into my instinct, my fear, good, up, one, two, push, good, oh, nicely done, that was it, it's all in the timing, good, no, see, I'm moving back, if I move back, it don't matter if you get through the cuts, I have distance to get out from, up, no, no, up, yeah, you disengaged, but the idea is there, let's go, finishing a good one, good, one, two, well done, good job, good job, thank you so much, hope that helps, a little cut over, you're doing a disengage and then a cut over, that's a typical mistake for a lot of people, you gotta cut up first.