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Yeah, I agree... 😢 But let the others show their highlights as well, right? Appity, Ibragimov, Dershwitz... The greatest set of sabre-fencers altogether of all the times, I think. I wonder, what will come after this generation gets finished...

The 6 parry you describe was used by Montano against Ochiuzzi at the New York World Cup (I can't remember what year) I forgot to put that one in

@@SlicerSabre Check the fencers coached by Kirienko if you want to see 6. And Bashta

You'll want to follow Beatrice 'Bebe' Vio, her story is very inspirational and she's an absolute beast

It’s septime (7th) in mainland systems. Slight differences, namely a better hold on the weapon, but similar usage.

Prime is great - but seldom against an attack with no set up.Try this: offer point in in line, when your opponent beats, drop your tip and look for quinte, prime or seconde. Because the hand has v.short distance to move the high line parties are much easier.

The same here. We were not even taught to use it, it was considered to belong to the realms of epeé mostly. However we were taught the "sixth" (sextieme?), which is a very beautiful parry, and effective as well: just imagine the "fifth" but with reversed hand. Very useful to change into from a faked "second" (seconde). Well, these were the 1970'ies...

true, this misses circular and semicircular parries

Learn the distance. That is the most important and at the same time the most basic thing that you should learn. All those fancy actions, that amazing attack, it doesn't matter if you fall short at the very end. How to learn distance? On attack: Try to never fall short when attacking but also to never receice a counterattack. If you fall short while attacking, you missed the moment of your lunge or the lunge was not executed correctly. If you get counterattacked, you were too close to begin with! At that distance, you should have lunged few steps ago! Don't bother if you get parried at the start, just don't fall short! As soon as you master the distance, adding a false attack will be a piece of cake and you will rarely get parried. On defence: Stop trying to do fancy parries. Try to provoke your opponent and make him fall short by retreating (in en garde and with steps, no cross running!). No parries. A lot of people stop and try to take parry. You can't do that. You have to retreat at an appropriate distance or you will very rarely make a parry. So stop worrying about parrying and start worrying about distance. If you run away, you won't need to parry, so always try to retreat first, parry later. Now, while you are learning. When you master the distance, we can talk about parries and second intentions. In all of that. Stay in en garde. Your back leg is like a spring in that position. It will propell you forward on the lunge. You will get tired, but stay in en garde. Take a break if you want, then come back but stay in en garde. Judging the distance correctly is one thing, being able to control your body to keep the distance is another. So you need to learn to move very well. Short steps, longer steps, slower steps, faster steps. Do a lot of footwork. 30 minutes every day. Just slow correct steps. Different kinds and combinations. Gradually add speed. If you master the distance, you will have a much better chance when trying to learn more advanced tactics. If you try to parry at the wrong distance, you will most likely not succeed, yet with the right distance and correct set up, unless your opponent notices the trap, success is guaranteed. The same is true for the attack. It doesn't matter how fancy your attack if you always fall short at the end. This is what I try to teach normally. There are a lot of other small stuff, but by far, this is the most impactful thing one should focus on in my opinion.

@@archardor3392 Thanks! Do you think it's important to have a long lunge? Like Oh Sang-uk? I apologize if I am asking too many questions I am still quite new to this.

@Archardor Thank you for this advice! I just started fencing myself.

Quinte?

@@matthewpham9525 Sixte? Sexte? Sexty?

Or a flying seconde from Homer for that matter

you read my mind

you mean with foil or epee as you don't need all 8 parries in sabre...actually i thought you only needed 3 (i was only taught and used well 3 parries... tierce, quarter and quite)

I can only speak for foil and epee (since it's much more easier to understand to non-fencer as myself). from what I've known and read, there are some parries that share the same line. Parry 3 and 6, for example, is done to deflect attack from high outside line. Parry 2 and 8, is for low outside line. The difference between those parry is whether the hand is pronated or supinated (it has something to do whether your palm is facing towards you or towards in front of you/"against" you/opposite of "facing towards you", I often mistaken one for another so you might want to google it). If I remember correctly, parry 3 is when the palm is facing towards "against you" while the parry 6 is when the palm is facing towards you. For low outside parries, 2 is the palm is facing against you while 8 is when facing against you

you've learned the parries in the french system, the italian system is more common in sabre apparently

Seconde goes down to the outside, prime is more of a circular parry going from down to up covering your inside torso. That's how I see it at least

@@vidanmilenkovic1666 Ahhhh I see now. In that case what I originally said should be flipped. Seconde is to the outside and prime is to the inside

1 parry - hand held high, past pronation, covering the inside line, like a 4. 2 parry - hand held high (?), past pronation, coving the outside line, like a 3. Note that I put a ? on the part about the hand held high. Traditionally that is correct. But since there are attacks that come from below, looking to get under the guard of a 3 position, you will see fencers bring the hand lower to stop this attack. The scene of Szilagyi taking 2 against Oh's lowline attack shows this.

Parry WTF is actually septime and it is a valid parry.

@@tamasszavo642 ok, then what are parry 6 or 8 in saber? Maybe they don't exist or are not reasonable?

@@ryanschultz9037 Parry 6 (using modern hungarian/italian numbering) is also known as the master's 5 in some places. It's mostly used after your opponent parries 4 and ripostes to head but it can be usedin other cicumstances. (see the bronze medal match from Atlanta 96.) Imagine you're a righty and you take a a lefty's five with your left hand holding the saber but standing on guard as righty, now give your right hand back the saber without moving the saber from where it's at. This is sixth. There is no 8 in modern saber's numbering system. The last parry in the video (the wtf) is parry 7.

@@esgrimaxativa5175 If I understand correctly, parry 6 then can be described as a supinated parry in an elevated position across the body. It is a high risk parry, but functions to lockout the opponent's blade in a counterparry type of situation.

@@esgrimaxativa5175 the last parry is a form of 8th, because one is defending the outside with the blade downwards. The 7th would be the same, but defending the inside.

Exactly, I actually said 'wtf dude' out loud when I saw that (I've seen plenty of foilists and epeeists do the behind-the-back shot, but not in sabre). Only way it would be legal was if it was a retreating counter attack, but he took a half-step back at most (even that is pretty doubtful)

What did you find? I think for 1, you need to be faster than your opponent. For 2, you need to be taller.

Maybe Venya will get his own video. His parry 3 is very unique