Akhmatkhuzin was probably the fencer with the most "classical" style on the circuit before he retired, who do you think holds the title now?

@christianalbertjahns2577

3 жыл бұрын

Avola, probably.

@clementzoccola240

3 жыл бұрын

Mepstead and Saito have also classsical style

@OlympicFoil

3 жыл бұрын

@@clementzoccola240 Agreed! 😄

@sldg_memes

Ай бұрын

garozzo?

@OlympicFoil

Ай бұрын

@@sldg_memes yes good one ☝

Some great hits by the Russian in here. In general, the French fencer was doing a lot of circular blade motion, and Akhmatkhuzin was just avoiding the blade contact and hitting him with straight counterattacks. I also really like the circle-parry into the transfer all the way under at 0:52, and the feint to 4, cutover/disengage to 8 at 3:43. I'm gonna try both of those in class next week! Thanks for posting.

@OlympicFoil

3 жыл бұрын

Agreed! 0:52 in particular is incredible incredible incredible

Helissey was mentally and spiritually broken (in in almost all cases like this, by himself). Self-doubt, reinforcing feedback from one mistake leads to greater mistakes.... been there. It's tough to crawl out of it, especially in the biggest competition venue in the world.

I was fucking screaming at camp when this happened

@OlympicFoil

3 жыл бұрын

Yeah what an incredible match 😃 Exactly what you want in an olympic final

There must've been an awkward conversation during the after party for the french team ...

@OlympicFoil

2 жыл бұрын

😬 yuuuup

still sad moment for Zherebchenko though. He was there watching the fire but couldn't participate in said fire

@christianalbertjahns2577

3 жыл бұрын

@Kali Tolles because the team decided that Zherebchenko wouldn't fence. Since Zherebchenko didn't fence in the entirety of the competition, he didn't receive the medal. Good thing for him though, he won the gold medal at men's individual foil's world championships (essentially a bit lesser Olympic that is held annually) the next year.

More rio 2016 content please! I can barely find any of it on KZread

@shrek2342

3 жыл бұрын

You can find a lot of it on Olympic's official website

@OlympicFoil

3 жыл бұрын

Glad you like it! It's rare cuz channels who post 2016 clips tend to die in mysterious circumstances.....

MY SPORT

@OlympicFoil

2 жыл бұрын

This is fencing at its most exciting 😁 Comeback in an olympic final

Sad reason why they played JPTH, because if he hadn't fenced that day, we wouldn't have gotten a medal

@christianalbertjahns2577

3 жыл бұрын

Well probably to give him an Olympic medal since he needed to fence to get a medal. That's why Zherebchenko (Russian reserve) didn't get the gold since he never fenced in that competition.

@christianalbertjahns2577

3 жыл бұрын

Anyway I am quite surprised that they chose Tony-Helissey as reserve rather than, say, Mertine, their reserve in 2015 World Championships

@philosophylord1687

3 жыл бұрын

@@christianalbertjahns2577 he beat race that season and was strong at every comp up to this. ( he also had two bouts go 14-15 with race if im not mistaken)

so Akhmatkhuzin retired for medical reason?

@OlympicFoil

3 жыл бұрын

I believe so, he did have both his hips replaced in 2014, so despite his fencing skill being fine as you can see after the operations, it was probably a good idea to retire at (I think) 28 years old. Avoid the risk of severe problems developing!

@markevgenev7380

3 жыл бұрын

He is now a coach !!

@OlympicFoil

3 жыл бұрын

I always liked his style, hopefully his students get some high placements at competitions, would love to see the Akhmatkhuzin produces

@fredik-uj5xb

2 жыл бұрын

@@ShastriGuruJi872 umm who asked, matter of fact no one asked for your negative attitude. Did your mom or dad die sike your dad went to go get milk and your mom is making out with the mailman.