Fencing 27th July
Jul. 28th, 2025 09:13 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
izardJacob's last U11 tournament with is over, and now it is time to buy a longer weapon and start attaching wire to the helmet. This time he only got 6th place; worse than before. And once again, most of dangerous opponents only practiced single move.
The most strange one was a guy who was only using one move: take the priority, and ram the opponent with both blade and helmet, while covering his chest with left hand! With serious judges, this would grant him black cards each time, but now judges only warned him, and I overheard when they were discussing "I should disqualify him but I do not want to spoil fun." Jacob still managed to win.
Another guy was an opponent who weights ~2x more than Jacob and more than any other competitor, and he also practiced a single move: really very strong parry which looked like using a club rather than a foil, and then quick attack while the opponent is distracted. Jacob managed to win 5:0 while feinting against parry and then attacking, worked 5 times in a row.
And then Jacob lost in elimination to a left-handed opponent who rushed to start close quarter combat (while doing so, he scored 3 points and my son scored 4), and then in close quarter fight he scored 6 points and Jacob scored 0. He was begging his coaches to teach him close quarters for a long time, but they always responded that it is too early, and he should not let the opponent that close anyway.
Once the first "ramming" guy learns close quarters fight techniques, he will be very difficult to face.
The most strange one was a guy who was only using one move: take the priority, and ram the opponent with both blade and helmet, while covering his chest with left hand! With serious judges, this would grant him black cards each time, but now judges only warned him, and I overheard when they were discussing "I should disqualify him but I do not want to spoil fun." Jacob still managed to win.
Another guy was an opponent who weights ~2x more than Jacob and more than any other competitor, and he also practiced a single move: really very strong parry which looked like using a club rather than a foil, and then quick attack while the opponent is distracted. Jacob managed to win 5:0 while feinting against parry and then attacking, worked 5 times in a row.
And then Jacob lost in elimination to a left-handed opponent who rushed to start close quarter combat (while doing so, he scored 3 points and my son scored 4), and then in close quarter fight he scored 6 points and Jacob scored 0. He was begging his coaches to teach him close quarters for a long time, but they always responded that it is too early, and he should not let the opponent that close anyway.
Once the first "ramming" guy learns close quarters fight techniques, he will be very difficult to face.
