WPI FENCING CLUB

Beginners: Contents of Second Term

At the start of the second term, beginning fencers spend some of the term revising their knowledge of what was learned during the first term, and are then split into weapon groups: some remaining as foilists, and some starting epee or sabre.

Those who remain with foil learn the following information and skills:

• Concept of direct, indirect and compound attacks.
• Basic two movement attacks, such as disengage-disengage (the 1-2), and high-low.
• Successive parries.
• Circular parries.
• Beat.

Epeeists start by converting their foil skills into epee skills.

Sabruers convert their foil skills to Sabre, focussing initially on basic cuts and parries.