ATTENDEE INFORMATION
(PLEASE RETURN THIS FORM TO CoachGreg@NovaFencingClub.com no later than March 7th, 2019)
NAME:
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CLUB AFFILIATION:
DIVISION:
# of Years you have been fencing (competing + coaching):
Included in the number above, # of Years you have been coaching:
Coaching Certification, if any (USFCA or Foreign):
Primary Weapon as a fencer:
Secondary weapon as a fencer:
Primary Weapon as a Coach:
Secondary Weapon as a Coach:
Highest Rating achieved as a fencer and year (specify weapon):
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Please describe your expectations about this clinic:
ASSIGNMENT: Please view the bout below BEFORE you arrive in Falls Church, VA., and either email your observations to CoachGreg@NovaFencingClub.com before March 7, or bring them with you to the clinic.
BERNE GRAND PRIX EPEE 2018https://www.facebook.com/fie.org/videos/1522055924564658/
SEMIFINAL BOUT MINOBEK (Japan) vs VISMARA (Italy)
Minutes 13:46 to 23:46
AGENDA FOR DAY ONE -EPEE- OF CLINIC ON MARCH 9-10, 2019
As detailed below this will be a first of a kind clinic with a very unique and innovative approach.
I - [TIME] - WELCOME AND INTRODUCTIONS
II- [TIME] - OVERVIEW OF FIRST DAY OF CLINIC
III-{TIME]- INTERACTIVE SESSION ON EPEE STRATEGIC CONCEPTS
This exercise sets the stage for coaching epee. Attendees will be asked to identify epee’s strategic concepts. In doing so, they will be encouraged to use an inclusive approach and not to edit their thoughts at this stage. This exercise, together with the rest of the clinic program, will provide the conceptual strategic basis for coaching and fencing epee, which will then allow coaches to develop their own methodology
Deliverables: In this session, with the help of Facilitators, participants will learn to extrapolate derivative strategic concepts from certain factual strategic concepts peculiar to epee. This clinic will produce a document with a breakdown of factual, analogical and derivative epee strategic concepts.
IV-[TIME- ESSENTIAL SKILLS – PRACTICAL SESSION ONE
Footwork is a misnomer in the training of young fencers, since the hand is the inseparable companion of the foot; and fencers must learn how to use them both in tandem and separately to be able to probe, deceive, disrupt, induce and strike unexpectedly. This session will focus on the relationship between the hand and the foot with respect to coordination, inverse coordination and to their more synergetic relationship as impacted by tempo, speed and acceleration.
Deliverables: In this session, with the help of Facilitators, participants will learn how to integrate the concept of rhythmic and arrhythmic movements of hand and foot as impacted by syncopation within the contest of group hand/footwork. Participants will also be shown how to teach young fencers to manage their physical resources on the strip and introduce them to the concept of “tightening in tempo”, as well as teaching them to recognize and feel the “kill zone”. Since infighting is also an essential skill for fencers, participants will be introduced to KATA progressions to teach students how to position their bodies moving into the reach of the opponent with the aim of placing the tip of the opponent’s point offside.
V-[TIME- INTERACTIVE SESSION ON RISK MANAGEMENT – PART ONE
Changes in competition format, 15-Touch/DE w/no-repêchage & U2F have made risk management a quintessential component in the training of epee fencers. Fencers must understand strategy/tactics and risk management even before they have the technical skill to implement them.
Deliverables: During Part One, Participants will learn: (a) How to conduct a video analysis of epee bouts (b) identify the key factors to watch during a bout (c ) develop a form to tabulate their findings. Participants will be given an overnight assignment.
VI-[TIME- ESSENTIAL SKILLS – PRACTICAL SESSION TWO
Learning how to hit with TIM fingers straight, downward, in pronation supination and angulation. Diversifying the position of blade when on-guard. Calibrating distance to targets while adding and subtracting speed to and from the opponent. Understanding the cone of protection and protecting the fencing arm.
Deliverables: In this session, with the help of Facilitators, participants will learn how to hit with the and in various position and hold the blade in different positions while on guard. Further, they will integrate the variations of distance to different targets in movement in their methodology; as well as teaching the students to recognize the shifting of targets during the dynamics of the bout. Participants will learn how to “protect the fencing arm” as well as learning to take the initiative, induce certain reactions from the opponent, attacking in acceleration and dealing with the incoming counterattack.
VII-[TIME- INTERACTIVE SESSION ON RISK MANAGEMENT – PART TWO
Beginning fencers need some general behavioral guidelines on how to manage risk when fencing; especially by learning to minimize their risk, as well as understanding that risk is not measured in a vacuum but that it is directly related to the score and time.
Deliverables: Drawing on the previous interactive session on video analysis and with the help of facilitators, participants will identify and develop general guidelines for their fencers to follow when: (a) the score is tied (b) they are leading in the score and (c) they are trailing in the score. This clinic will produce for participants a document with general guidelines for risk management.
VIII-[TIME- ESSENTIAL SKILLS – PRACTICAL SESSION THREE
Hand Acceleration, Hand acceleration w/foot de acceleration (1-1; 2-1; 3-1+ ratios); and hand & foot acceleration in connection with multiple hits in progression to different targets.
Deliverables: In this session, with the help of Facilitators, participants will learn how to: integrate the variations of hand accelerations in their methodology to improve the technical executions of fencing actions of their students and also use them to lay the foundation for more complex tactical strategies. To teach their students to execute multiple movements of the fencing hand with one foot movement; and tying it all together with accelerating hand and foot together with multiple hits in progression.
IX-[TIME- INTERACTIVE SESSION SESSION– OPTIMAL MOMENTS TO HIT THE OPPONENT (AND TO BE HIT BY OPPONENT)
Fencers must understand as soon as possible when their opponent is most vulnerable and by the same token apply that knowledge to their own mirror vulnerability. This knowledge is then used to hit the opponent, avoid getting hit as well as inducing the opponent in a trap and avoid falling into one. Participants will be given an overnight written assignment.
Deliverables: With the help of facilitators, participants will identify those moments in which the opponent is most vulnerable. This clinic will produce a document for participants listing the optimal moments to hit the opponent.
X-[TIME- COMBINED SESSION:
PROBLEM-SOLVING CREATIVE SESSION &
ESSENTIAL SKILL PRACTICAL SESSION – PART FOUR
Teaching fencing requires an understanding of the biomechanics of fencing movements. This to be able to teach beginners in the easiest way possible for them. The Theme for this combined session will the fleche and the remise from the fleche
Deliverables: The Participants will be challenged with an apparently absurd teaching task , which will draw on their creativity to resolve. The Practical session will build on the solutions proposed and show a path to teach their students the proper, technical and tactical, use of fleche and to hit the opponent three times each time they fleche.
XI-[TIME- ESSENTIAL SKILLS – PRACTICAL SESSION FIVE
Blade Control & Infighting: Just like fighters must know how to wrestle because they end up on the floor, epee fencer must know how to infight. Blade control is not only important because there is no ROW in epee, it is essential to infighting and goes in tandem with moving the fencer’s body passed the opponent’s point.
Deliverables: This session will cover blade control techniques on all lines with emphasis on geometrical effectiveness without widening movements unintentionally; realistic blade deflections; and using transfers, glides, ceding parries in synchronicity with footwork aimed at closing the distance while positioning the opponent’s point passed the fencer’s body and closing in on the target with multiple hits.
XII-[TIME- CREATIVE THINKING -OUTSIDE OF THE BOX- SESSION
Participants will be given a very unorthodox tactical scenario involving two fencers during a bout. Within that existing, almost absurd, framework they will have to think of how to implement the unorthodox tactics successfully.
Deliverables: This exercise is designed to expose participants to think unconventionally, be open to change and challenge the norm. As poorly thought-out rules are continuously proposed and implemented in fencing, the ability to think multidimensionally has become essential to coaching fencing.
XIII TIME- ESSENTIAL SKILLS – PRACTICAL SESSION FIVE
Angulations: Angulations are a key component of epee fencing and deserve a stand-alone- session.
Deliverables: Participants will be shown a methodology to teach this skill from the onset to young beginning fencers based upon geometry, distance, acceleration and risk, which then morphs into the tactical application of angulations both in tempo and on the student’s initiative, as first intention or second intention attacks, as well as to be used as a disruptive or probing technique. Defending against angulations will also be covered.
As detailed below this will be a first of a kind clinic with a very unique and innovative approach.
I - [TIME] - WELCOME AND INTRODUCTIONS
II- [TIME] - OVERVIEW OF FIRST DAY OF CLINIC
III-{TIME]- INTERACTIVE SESSION ON EPEE STRATEGIC CONCEPTS
This exercise sets the stage for coaching epee. Attendees will be asked to identify epee’s strategic concepts. In doing so, they will be encouraged to use an inclusive approach and not to edit their thoughts at this stage. This exercise, together with the rest of the clinic program, will provide the conceptual strategic basis for coaching and fencing epee, which will then allow coaches to develop their own methodology
Deliverables: In this session, with the help of Facilitators, participants will learn to extrapolate derivative strategic concepts from certain factual strategic concepts peculiar to epee. This clinic will produce a document with a breakdown of factual, analogical and derivative epee strategic concepts.
IV-[TIME- ESSENTIAL SKILLS – PRACTICAL SESSION ONE
Footwork is a misnomer in the training of young fencers, since the hand is the inseparable companion of the foot; and fencers must learn how to use them both in tandem and separately to be able to probe, deceive, disrupt, induce and strike unexpectedly. This session will focus on the relationship between the hand and the foot with respect to coordination, inverse coordination and to their more synergetic relationship as impacted by tempo, speed and acceleration.
Deliverables: In this session, with the help of Facilitators, participants will learn how to integrate the concept of rhythmic and arrhythmic movements of hand and foot as impacted by syncopation within the contest of group hand/footwork. Participants will also be shown how to teach young fencers to manage their physical resources on the strip and introduce them to the concept of “tightening in tempo”, as well as teaching them to recognize and feel the “kill zone”. Since infighting is also an essential skill for fencers, participants will be introduced to KATA progressions to teach students how to position their bodies moving into the reach of the opponent with the aim of placing the tip of the opponent’s point offside.
V-[TIME- INTERACTIVE SESSION ON RISK MANAGEMENT – PART ONE
Changes in competition format, 15-Touch/DE w/no-repêchage & U2F have made risk management a quintessential component in the training of epee fencers. Fencers must understand strategy/tactics and risk management even before they have the technical skill to implement them.
Deliverables: During Part One, Participants will learn: (a) How to conduct a video analysis of epee bouts (b) identify the key factors to watch during a bout (c ) develop a form to tabulate their findings. Participants will be given an overnight assignment.
VI-[TIME- ESSENTIAL SKILLS – PRACTICAL SESSION TWO
Learning how to hit with TIM fingers straight, downward, in pronation supination and angulation. Diversifying the position of blade when on-guard. Calibrating distance to targets while adding and subtracting speed to and from the opponent. Understanding the cone of protection and protecting the fencing arm.
Deliverables: In this session, with the help of Facilitators, participants will learn how to hit with the and in various position and hold the blade in different positions while on guard. Further, they will integrate the variations of distance to different targets in movement in their methodology; as well as teaching the students to recognize the shifting of targets during the dynamics of the bout. Participants will learn how to “protect the fencing arm” as well as learning to take the initiative, induce certain reactions from the opponent, attacking in acceleration and dealing with the incoming counterattack.
VII-[TIME- INTERACTIVE SESSION ON RISK MANAGEMENT – PART TWO
Beginning fencers need some general behavioral guidelines on how to manage risk when fencing; especially by learning to minimize their risk, as well as understanding that risk is not measured in a vacuum but that it is directly related to the score and time.
Deliverables: Drawing on the previous interactive session on video analysis and with the help of facilitators, participants will identify and develop general guidelines for their fencers to follow when: (a) the score is tied (b) they are leading in the score and (c) they are trailing in the score. This clinic will produce for participants a document with general guidelines for risk management.
VIII-[TIME- ESSENTIAL SKILLS – PRACTICAL SESSION THREE
Hand Acceleration, Hand acceleration w/foot de acceleration (1-1; 2-1; 3-1+ ratios); and hand & foot acceleration in connection with multiple hits in progression to different targets.
Deliverables: In this session, with the help of Facilitators, participants will learn how to: integrate the variations of hand accelerations in their methodology to improve the technical executions of fencing actions of their students and also use them to lay the foundation for more complex tactical strategies. To teach their students to execute multiple movements of the fencing hand with one foot movement; and tying it all together with accelerating hand and foot together with multiple hits in progression.
IX-[TIME- INTERACTIVE SESSION SESSION– OPTIMAL MOMENTS TO HIT THE OPPONENT (AND TO BE HIT BY OPPONENT)
Fencers must understand as soon as possible when their opponent is most vulnerable and by the same token apply that knowledge to their own mirror vulnerability. This knowledge is then used to hit the opponent, avoid getting hit as well as inducing the opponent in a trap and avoid falling into one. Participants will be given an overnight written assignment.
Deliverables: With the help of facilitators, participants will identify those moments in which the opponent is most vulnerable. This clinic will produce a document for participants listing the optimal moments to hit the opponent.
X-[TIME- COMBINED SESSION:
PROBLEM-SOLVING CREATIVE SESSION &
ESSENTIAL SKILL PRACTICAL SESSION – PART FOUR
Teaching fencing requires an understanding of the biomechanics of fencing movements. This to be able to teach beginners in the easiest way possible for them. The Theme for this combined session will the fleche and the remise from the fleche
Deliverables: The Participants will be challenged with an apparently absurd teaching task , which will draw on their creativity to resolve. The Practical session will build on the solutions proposed and show a path to teach their students the proper, technical and tactical, use of fleche and to hit the opponent three times each time they fleche.
XI-[TIME- ESSENTIAL SKILLS – PRACTICAL SESSION FIVE
Blade Control & Infighting: Just like fighters must know how to wrestle because they end up on the floor, epee fencer must know how to infight. Blade control is not only important because there is no ROW in epee, it is essential to infighting and goes in tandem with moving the fencer’s body passed the opponent’s point.
Deliverables: This session will cover blade control techniques on all lines with emphasis on geometrical effectiveness without widening movements unintentionally; realistic blade deflections; and using transfers, glides, ceding parries in synchronicity with footwork aimed at closing the distance while positioning the opponent’s point passed the fencer’s body and closing in on the target with multiple hits.
XII-[TIME- CREATIVE THINKING -OUTSIDE OF THE BOX- SESSION
Participants will be given a very unorthodox tactical scenario involving two fencers during a bout. Within that existing, almost absurd, framework they will have to think of how to implement the unorthodox tactics successfully.
Deliverables: This exercise is designed to expose participants to think unconventionally, be open to change and challenge the norm. As poorly thought-out rules are continuously proposed and implemented in fencing, the ability to think multidimensionally has become essential to coaching fencing.
XIII TIME- ESSENTIAL SKILLS – PRACTICAL SESSION FIVE
Angulations: Angulations are a key component of epee fencing and deserve a stand-alone- session.
Deliverables: Participants will be shown a methodology to teach this skill from the onset to young beginning fencers based upon geometry, distance, acceleration and risk, which then morphs into the tactical application of angulations both in tempo and on the student’s initiative, as first intention or second intention attacks, as well as to be used as a disruptive or probing technique. Defending against angulations will also be covered.
