[SEMI FINAL] Tristan TULEN 🇳🇱- Ruslan KURBANOV 🇰🇿 | Heidenheim Men Epee World Cup 2026

And here it's much more like, you know, FPS you would expect it. So they're past match-ups. May last year at the Bogota Grand Prix. Very nice. With some just triggers and goals. Very nice. Not going to work that second time though. It did look like an attempt to draw the same action again. Yeah, yeah. Timing the flash perfectly and then being provoked into trying it again. I think Tristan might get another let-off there. So we go to the P-reds. So you're pretty sure that it's not going to happen. Because, as we said, if we have another period where, or one minute where there is no hits scored, Very nice. Double-checked. Oh right, so it's not that receptive to the remote control that's attached to it. That's kind of a bit annoying and slightly distracting at this point in the fight. Yes. If it gets down to late in the fight and suddenly every second is really important. Called a halt too soon. And it was that moment where you could see the hit being delivered. And the referee called halt, stopped the box so that the hit doesn't actually land. And then it turns out there's only a fraction of a second left and there's literally no chance of happening. Thankfully it doesn't happen too often. I think he's starting to look a bit more relaxed as well now. His body movement, to me, feels more relaxed, more comfortable with where he is. Half-time with Tristan, to be honest. Ah, that's the pick-off. Yeah. We've only seen that a couple of times today, but so far we've not really seen anything from a tool that's going to enable that to happen. If he can just pull a curve on the floor and get a big prep, maybe. So that he can then do one of his lunges that he doesn't do, that we think he doesn't do as often. Which is something we'd like to see more of. Yeah, he might have to look to deploy that more and find a way of setting that up. Yeah. He's probably now happy to go on the defensive, be patient. He's not being pressed too hard, so he's not hanging on his back line. Yeah, the pressure's all on to him to make something happen here. Yeah. I mean, at times he's ally. You know, but he has to have the belief, the self-belief, to understand what's going on. The only thing is, the times when he uses that most effectively is when he's been able to draw his opponent forward. And that's going to be difficult to do. So he can do that by gambling and getting a little closer like that. So there's risk. And, you know, I always question my mind that, you know, as a fencer, you have to try and do something. You have to, something must change. So there's no point just going down to just refuse to change your plan. It's got to be adaptable. Yeah, so this to me doesn't feel like enough. Yeah, and that's absolutely OK. Yeah, yeah, probably not having it. I mean, I still think it needs more urgency. Or needed more urgency from Turing. Yep. More or less from the start. It's really beautiful. Oh, very nice. I wasn't sure. There's another. So a well-earned win. Yes. Ruslan Karmanov to advance to the final. Yeah, a fight that he really seized control of in the middle of the second period. It's a fine example of game management there. You know, get your nose in front.