About The Parry in Intermediate Sabre Fencing

Video Transcript

"JASON SHERIDAN: On behalf of Expert Village, my name is Jason Sheridan from the Sheridan Fencing Academy here in New York City, and today, we're going to demonstrate some intermediate sabre fencing. Of course, this is fencing and so the blade does come into play. So when we are protecting ourself, one, we're looking to protect ourselves with our feet, but two, we do look to protect ourselves with our blade. This is called parrying. We use our blade to protect ourselves from our opponent's attack; it's called parrying. There are several parries depending on where opponent's attacking and what we're trying to do. We may do one of several parries that allow us to stop the opponent's blade, and then make a riposte, or to hit them after we've protected ourselves. It can be done in place with maneuvering forward, backward, even sometimes with a lunge, depending on the needs and the tactical situation. We'll go over three of the most important parries in sabre one at a time and how and when to use them. I'll show you these from different angles as well, different parries we might use, like so."