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my takeaway here in addition to him not being afraid to make a messy attack is he isn't afraid to make an attack that misses.

Being able to create so much momentum in an attack is so much fun (Freeing in a way). You can just focus on finishing when your opponent makes a mistake; rather than worrying about distance for a risky dance towards the back line, once your opponent is defending.

Love these analysis videos! Even as a foilist, they provide so much insightful commentary

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His attack really just takes advantage of the current box timing. One light counter attacks are so difficult now that you have time to run in with a lot of momentum on your attack

Hey slicer, would you like saber to ditch RoW completely and switch to epee-like ruleset? How do you think this would affect the sport? Do you think such aggressive style and ,,momentum" usage would still be efficient? Why or why not? I have some thoughts, but I would love to hear opinion from more of an insider :)

@SlicerSabre

5 ай бұрын

It would just turn into epee

I think it matters the lack of parry attempts against him. Everyone trying to deal with his attacks with distance alone. What the hell do you have to lose by at least trying to parry his sloppy attacks?

@SlicerSabre

6 ай бұрын

I think the way he hits makes it really hard to parry. If he finishes early to wrist/arm he can often whip around the guard. If he gets any momentum he's going to smash through a lot of parries even if you pick the right one

@DonovanDeans

5 ай бұрын

Sloppy attacks...haha, you fence him then. I have - his attacks are incredibly accurate and he hits like a freight train and outside of the center winds his arm so hard that if you attempted to parry 5 riposte a headshot the blade would wrap around and hit your neck. Tactically, it makes more sense to parry attacks launched from far away, and counter/close-out, stop-cut, or draw distance on trampling attacks like Bazadze (which seems like the newer version of Montano's old-school charging attack.)

@donaldbadowski290

5 ай бұрын

@@DonovanDeans I doubt I'll ever get the chance. And he's got better people to fence than guys like me on the geriatric side of life. But to the point, we have lived with whip over before, and referees were supposed to take that into account. I'm going to guess that you never experienced the pre-2000 blades. Well, prior to those being mandatory, the FIE had given a directive to the referees, in 1998 I believe. If you see an attack, a parry riposte and a possible remise, and you can't tell it it was the attack that landed clean or whip over after making parry contact, you are to call it for the riposte and call the whip over a remise. We still live by this directive to this day, even with the stiffer blades. So yes, I get you. Parrying this guys' attacks is still fraught with the danger of whip over landing. But if you don't try, refs don't get the chance to judge it in your favor.

@donaldbadowski290

5 ай бұрын

@@SlicerSabre If you were the ref, and you saw him smash through a parry, but the opponent was still able to extend for riposte and you got two lights, would you call it for the riposte? My own take on this was that a ref is not supposed to count the forcing of blade through a parry as part of the initial attack.