No offence, but are you sure this was her first sparring session? No strange flailing, simple and effective moves. She's a natural. ✌ And she confirms the text of the old masters, don't underestimate new fighters, as they can still score wins (a warning usually expressed in a bloodier fashion).
First Longsword sparring session (as in a training dedicated only on sparring) with a group. We have had some light freeplay with her in our one on one trainings and she hasn’t played in steel geared freeplay with anyone else before.
@@AngelChernaevHistoricalFencing Out of personal curiosity, on the idea of fighting inexperience people that I heard about and mentioned above, if you were to fight with her, both going for your best, what do you think her rate of success would be? I always wondered about this, and maybe you can offer a perspective. P.S. Just realised, don't answer if this is weird as an instructor.
First to mention that there is nothing that can be said for absolute certainty when fencing anyone and even more if we go in the realm of fighting. That being said, if I have to fence her or whoever of my students with less than a year of training I can most probably get them clean 100% of the time if I want to. I know their movement patters and way of approaching a match. If I have to play it “for real” and am worried about a random attack I can bait them and follow up from there. It’s less so certain with other new people that I haven’t been teaching of course. And of course it’s possible that being certain of something is one’s downfall. So I would say that we shouldn’t underestimate new fencer but not be that worried about them :)
@@AngelChernaevHistoricalFencing 🤣And here I thought noobs had something like 1:10 chance of success. The rain has stopped, I'm going to the garden for some extra sword practice... no reason.😅 And yes on baiting!😈
Vraiment bien continuez ;) félicitation de Belgique
Thank you :)
No offence, but are you sure this was her first sparring session? No strange flailing, simple and effective moves. She's a natural. ✌
And she confirms the text of the old masters, don't underestimate new fighters, as they can still score wins (a warning usually expressed in a bloodier fashion).
First Longsword sparring session (as in a training dedicated only on sparring) with a group. We have had some light freeplay with her in our one on one trainings and she hasn’t played in steel geared freeplay with anyone else before.
@@AngelChernaevHistoricalFencing Out of personal curiosity, on the idea of fighting inexperience people that I heard about and mentioned above, if you were to fight with her, both going for your best, what do you think her rate of success would be? I always wondered about this, and maybe you can offer a perspective.
P.S. Just realised, don't answer if this is weird as an instructor.
First to mention that there is nothing that can be said for absolute certainty when fencing anyone and even more if we go in the realm of fighting.
That being said, if I have to fence her or whoever of my students with less than a year of training I can most probably get them clean 100% of the time if I want to. I know their movement patters and way of approaching a match. If I have to play it “for real” and am worried about a random attack I can bait them and follow up from there.
It’s less so certain with other new people that I haven’t been teaching of course. And of course it’s possible that being certain of something is one’s downfall. So I would say that we shouldn’t underestimate new fencer but not be that worried about them :)
@@AngelChernaevHistoricalFencing 🤣And here I thought noobs had something like 1:10 chance of success.
The rain has stopped, I'm going to the garden for some extra sword practice... no reason.😅
And yes on baiting!😈