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FIE: You can´t cross legs foward. Sabre: Ok. Flying it is then.

I swear the Koreans are getting closer and closer to fighting like Jedi. Next they'll start backflipping or just straight up using the force!

I don’t even fence sabre but your commentary and video editing makes all these videos so fun to watch! Love your channel

when i was like 10 or so, i met Daryl Homer at my club bc he and my coach’s son were friends. seeing him just catapult himself at his opponent is awesome to watch and the move is hilariously effective

Every time I see these videos I remember how much I love watching sabre.

Epee fencers: so uncivilized Saber fencers: front legs go burrr

Great video! There's some footage of old classes in there with fleches I hadn't seen before. I think the forward crossover was last permitted in 94 World champs. By world champs in 95 and 96 Olympic games in Atlanta it was gone already.

Scenes from the 1992 Olympics in this vid. I have the VHS tapes somewhere down in the depths of my basement. First time I saw them was maybe 1998, and I didn't start fencing till 1994. If you watch the footwork from that Olympics, you'll be shocked at how poor the footwork is compared to any time after, and these guys were the best in the world. There is no doubt about it, removing the forward crossover and fleche from sabre improved the footwork immensely. Why it was removed. I've heard two stories. First was that it was the last refuge of the old and overweight fencers who were not properly fleching, but simply crossing over and falling to hit. Second was that refs where pushing the fences way back behind the On Guard lines before calling Fence, because if both fencers where going to do this, they had a real tough time determining ROW. As for the Mega Flunge, the guys doing it look as if they are going to tear their tendons, muscles and ligaments to shreds before too long.

Many years ago, maybe around 2016ish i recalled seeing a clip of Matyas Szabo appearing to "lunge" by primarily pushing from both his front and back leg. I remember being baffled. Maybe I was just confused by the slow motion especially since i didn't know as much about sabre back then. Or he was doing some sort of mega lunge one time.

Very useful for describing the difference between a foil fleche and sabre

Your recent content's really been improving!!

I always assumed "flunge" was a contraction of fleche and lunge

Really like this style of video!

love this new content

This is lowkey a good video ur underrated man

That’s why I do epee lol

Mega flunge great name 🔥

3:22 the sun on the ground. Early morning fencing 🤗

Fun video as always. I'm liking the increase in videos with your casual voiceover. Only criticism is that the music from 3:00 onwards ... Isn't exactly what I'd have chosen.

I would love to see your comparison between modern sabre and chinese jian / dao forms. There may be more to it than it seems, and youtube may love it.

the first clip is the perfect explanation to why nowadays it's illegal in sabre to cross legs

In the examples at the start of this video, each of them would have been been given to the defender had the actual rule as written on the fleche been applied. Rule 417.2 (page 59 of the AFA edition of 1981): "A fleche attack is correctly carried out: "- as a simple attack when the arm is straightened as the fleche is carried out and when the hit arrives at the latest before the the rear foot again touches the piste or as it does so. - as a compound attack when, with the arm straightening in the correct forming of the first feint, the hit arrives at the latest as the front foot again makes contact with the piste."

I’ve only ever done foil, but would be cool to do a saber competition sometime.

Flying Lunge (True Input)

The problem with the fleche at sabre was referees not enforcing the rule that every cross-step after the first was preparation; in effect, the back foot landing in a fleche being the same as the front foot landing in the lunge. Instead they took a rule knocking around in lower level foil in the USA in the wake of the Smirnoff accident, and banned the fleche.

3:01 im surprised that Yoshida Kento didnt roll his ankle

So going along with this, I’ve been noticing that in recent tournaments, the Korean hop hasn’t been seen too much. Why do you think this is? Or did I miss something?

Got to put a James Williams flunge in if you can find an example. I think the first of these megas should have been annulled for hit made while falling, but it's not really called. Good analysis though, that big kickout is almost like the step phase of the triple jump, sort of hanging in the air and then throwing the front leg.

Will you do a video what happening in Warsaw

bro the epee fail clip made me cackle

im pretty sure flunge is fleche and lunge together

So what happens if a top saber fencer uses the crossover vs a flunger. Forget what is legal, who wins? The idea was to make fencing less pedantic, but flunging allows them to dive at each other anyway. So did they achieve anything, while they sidelined a real fencing move. Or is the flunge fun to watch, but functions as a restriction over the crossover, so for a non-martial art, it is a win win.

I think Daryl Homer is the best

I think the grandfather of the flunge was Kothny creating something new. ......something new to overcome some distance in some swift motion. Just kidding 🤣

My goal is to master flunges until I become the Michael Jordan of fencing, literally wanna fly through the air like a boeing 747

Are you a fencer yourself?

Honesty, I think the reason that the fleché isn’t used more often in foil, is because if you screw up, or it gets parryed, you’re kinda fucked😂

Let them run at each other - it's more the spirit and nature of the weapon anyway to charge at your opponent. I think you would get better results dropping right-of-way and forcing the fencers to actually respect their opponent's blade. Maybe even parry once in a while.

Blah.. this is so silly that they restricted flesche for sabre. Doesn't make any sense. Flunge seems like a nice alternative, although seems like very likely to injure a knee in the process. Oh well, gotta try that in epee, will see if it's any good.

crazy how our country is good at fencing, archery,judo yet suck at taekwondo

Why the weird and cringey music… yt videos really make fencing look cringe and bad

Can I use the mega flunge in foil?