How to Lunge in a Fencing Competition

Video Transcript

"Hi, my name is Brad Bogus. Next I am going to guide you through the most important footwork you will need to do in fencing and that is known as the lunge. Now a lot of people are familiar with the lunges and in fencing it works a little bit differently. Now trust me before you start practicing a lunge you are going to have to do a lot of stretches before you do this especially with your hamstring the back of your thigh. So to stretch to prepare for the lunge you are going to get into a basic lunge position. Like I said here is your stance, the lunge is with your front foot as far as you can possibly get it. You want the 90 degree angle between your thigh and the ground and your shin. So you shin will be straight up, straight across parallel to the ground, your back leg should be extended as far as you can possibly get it with your back foot perpendicular to your front foot just like the stance and just like the movement. So go ahead and just stretch just like that so that you get your hamstring prepared for all the different lunge exercises. Also reverse it to squat on your back leg. This gets a really good stretch right here. So once you have your ham strings prepared to lunge go ahead and try it from stance position. You get in a stance also known as arm guard and you go to your front foot as far as you possibly can get it. The point of lunge is to close as much distance to your foot as you can possibly get. That foot perpendicular to the front foot, leg stretched out as much as possible at a 90 degree angle. Practice your lunge with a lot of other foot work basics so go advance, advance lunge, retreat, retreat, when you are doing your practicing foot work like so. In stance, advance, lunge, pull back, retreat, retreat, advance, advance and lunge and close as much distance as you can get that stretch out there and get low to the ground. "