March 20, 2020

On Strip/At Home Series: Beginner and Advanced Footwork (Video!)

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Here’s our first video training. It’s meant for our beginners, but I want our experienced and advanced to do it too.

Video link: https://youtu.be/xfAgfq4UmIs

BEGINNER FENCERS
We talked at the end of last class to do these exercises. Make sure you keep doing them! I went in depth in class, this will reinforce what we talked about. The first part explains the four things I want you to work on. The second half of the video is the exercise. I do them to, so just follow along for each set of 10.

EXPERIENCED AND ADVANCED FENCERS
Skip to the 4:30 mark (https://youtu.be/xfAgfq4UmIs?t=270) and do the footwork with me. It only takes about 3 minutes to do everything. But do these things:

Bend your knees as low as I am and stay seated.
Don’t stand up through all 4 sets of 10.
Focus on the distance of your lunge, landing on your heel and not rolling to the balls of your front feet when you lunge.
If you are doing this correct, the legs really should start complaining around the 5th lunge. Of it doesnt, you’re probably not sitting low enough on you en garde. 🙂