Changing Distance in Advanced Sabre Fencing

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"JASON SHERIDAN: On behalf of Expert Village, this is Jason Sheridan of Sheridan Fencing Academy here in New York City. Today, we're going to talk about advanced sabre fencing. One other thing you can use the slide for is to be able to change the distance of your attack, the distance that you will need to go reach your opponent without giving away any of the attack, without changing anything in your preparation to give your opponent an edge. Watch very carefully. Come both closer. In this instance, Emma begins her attack with slide, Rachel tries to escape with a double retreat we talked about earlier, but because she's making the slide, she has the time to bring her back foot even closer to her front foot and make a much longer attack. Watch carefully. You see here, we'll do it one more time. Emma's back foot came all the way in. Come back en garde. We'll do it again. All the way in during her slide right up to her back foot allowing her a lot of distance on her attack. And the double retreat was not enough."