WPI FENCING CLUB

Beginners: Contents of First Term

Beginning fencers use the foil and learn all (or most) of the following information and skills, in roughly this order, during the first term (7 weeks) of practices:

• A general introduction to Fencing.
• The On Guard position.
• The Advance and Retreat.
• The Lunge, and Step-Lunge.
• How to hold the Foil.
• The Reprise forward and backward.
• The Cross-step backwards.
• The Balestra.
• The positions 6 and 4.
• The concepts of Covered and Engaged.
• The Parry of 4.
• Using the fingers to control the point.
• The Disengage.
• The Parry of 6.
• Ripostes from 4 and from 6.
• Direct Attack to the low line.
• The parry of 8 and Riposte.
• Basic fencing rules.
• How to judge a bout.
• Free fencing under supervision.

The second term.