Nice video 👍 Doesn't it better to make half-step back before attack? When you make half-step forward, opponent, especially novice, instinctively often makes step back. So lunge should be really fast and long to reach goal. And it's not so easy to make good lunge from this position because your legs stand wide.
You're 100% right! But in my experience when I taught beginners like that in the past they tended to step back with a bent arm and then attack with a bent(or late) arm. So now I choose to teach a beginner this way. Again in my experience this tends to have them attack with straighter arm.
Thanks for sharing this!
I’m a long time foil and sabre coach trying to figure out teaching epee.
This type of beginner lesson is very helpful!
Glad it was helpful! ☺️
Nice video 👍
Doesn't it better to make half-step back before attack? When you make half-step forward, opponent, especially novice, instinctively often makes step back. So lunge should be really fast and long to reach goal. And it's not so easy to make good lunge from this position because your legs stand wide.
You're 100% right! But in my experience when I taught beginners like that in the past they tended to step back with a bent arm and then attack with a bent(or late) arm. So now I choose to teach a beginner this way. Again in my experience this tends to have them attack with straighter arm.
@@HowtoFencingbyYarikandTimthx for answering. I'm beginning trainer myself, so I'll keep this advice in mind.