How to Lunge in Competitive Fencing

Video Transcript

" Hi! I'm Mike Elder, the head coach and general manager for the Miami Fencing Club; that's www.miamifencingclub.com We meet weekday evenings in South Miami and Saturday afternoon in Miami Day College. Fencing's provides an excellent low impact aerobic workout for fencers at athletes age 8 to 80. Nautia and I are going to show you now how to practice making the attack. The attack is called a lunge. It is an explosive forward action. It allows the attacking fencer to gather up the distance very quickly. Fencing is a game of distance and speed. You need to maintain the distance between yourself and your opponent to avoid getting hit. By maintaining a distance, you can also put yourself out of range so that you can't hit. Therefore we have an action that is called a lunge. A lunge you want to go like this. Stretch yourself out as long as you can so you can hit your opponent. I'm going to work with Nautia to give her practice of making a lunge to attack me. I want her to try a lunge as long as possible without falling down. I grab the blade like this to be sure to put in the correct position. "