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The Fencing Thrust family covers the offensive attacking techniques in fencing — the extension of the arm and blade to land a touch on the opponent's valid target area, which is the fundamental scorin...
The Rapier Thrust subfamily covers the thrusting techniques that form the core offensive repertoire of rapier fencing, the rapier being designed primarily as a thrusting weapon. [1] Italian rapier mas...
The Zornhau (wrath cut) is the first and most important of Liechtenauer's five master cuts — a powerful diagonal descending cut from the dominant shoulder to the opponent's opposite side, delivered wi...
Quarta (fourth guard) positions the hand with the palm facing upward (supinated), the blade angled across the body to protect the inside low line and threaten a thrust to the opponent's flank or abdom...
The Rapier Cut subfamily covers the cutting actions of rapier fencing, which, though secondary to thrusting, were an important component of the rapier's tactical repertoire. [1] Rapier cuts are delive...
The Lunge is the fundamental attacking movement in Western fencing, combining a full arm extension with a powerful forward drive of the body to deliver a thrust across a distance greater than the fenc...
The Epee Attack subfamily covers all offensive thrusting actions in epee, where the fencer extends the arm and advances to land the point on any part of the opponent's body. [1] Epee attacks are uniqu...
The Sabre Parry subfamily covers all defensive blade actions in sabre where the fencer deflects an incoming cut or thrust with their own blade, transferring right-of-way and earning the right to ripos...
The Disengage Thrust (cavazione) is a rapier attack that deceives the opponent's parry by passing the blade under or over the opponent's guard to thrust into the newly opened line. [1] The cavazione i...
The Direct Attack is the simplest offensive action in foil, consisting of a straight thrust delivered in the same line as the fencer's blade engagement, without any change of line or blade deception. ...
The Foil Parry subfamily covers all blade-deflection actions in foil where the fencer uses their blade to redirect an incoming thrust away from the valid target area (torso), establishing the right to...
The Time Thrust (Arrêt) is a stop-hit delivered into the opponent's attack, exploiting a tempo where the attacker is committed but has not yet reached the target. [1] It requires precise timing and co...
The Foil Riposte subfamily covers all counter-attacking actions executed immediately after a successful parry, which under right-of-way rules gives the defender priority to score. [1] The riposte is t...
The Counter Thrust is a defensive-offensive action in rapier fencing where the fencer parries or evades an incoming attack and delivers an immediate thrust in response, embodying the principle of a si...
The Foil Attack subfamily covers all offensive actions in foil where the fencer extends the arm and moves forward to land a thrust on the opponent's torso, establishing or maintaining right-of-way pri...
The Epee Parry subfamily covers all blade-deflection actions in epee, where the fencer uses their blade to redirect or block an incoming thrust before responding with a riposte. [1] Parries in epee mu...
The Rapier Guard subfamily covers the four primary guard positions of Italian rapier fencing — Prima, Seconda, Terza, and Quarta — each named for the hand position (first through fourth) and correspon...
The Hanging Guard (Hangetort) is a HEMA longsword guard position where the sword is held with the point hanging downward, typically with the hands above the head or at shoulder height and the blade an...
The Standard Epee Attack executes the fundamental offensive thrust in epee by extending the sword arm fully toward the target while advancing with a lunge or fleche, aiming to land the point with suff...
The Foil family covers all techniques specific to the foil discipline, the lightest and most technical of the three fencing weapons, characterised by right-of-way (priority) rules, a target area restr...
The Rapier family covers the combat techniques of the rapier, the long, slender, thrusting-oriented sword that dominated European civilian swordsmanship from the mid-sixteenth through seventeenth cent...
The Beat Attack is a preparation-on-the-blade attack where the fencer sharply strikes the opponent's blade with a crisp lateral motion to displace it from the line, immediately followed by a direct th...
The Fencing — Sport group covers all techniques within the three Olympic fencing disciplines — foil, epee, and sabre — as governed by the Federation Internationale d'Escrime (FIE). [1] Sport fencing i...
Seconda (second guard) positions the hand with the palm facing outward (pronated), the blade angled to protect the outside low line and threaten a thrust beneath the opponent's arm. [1] Seconda is a p...
The Sabre (Sport) family covers all techniques specific to the sabre discipline, the only fencing weapon that scores with both the edge and the point, targeting the entire body above the waist includi...
The Epee family covers all techniques specific to the epee discipline, the heaviest of the three fencing weapons, characterised by the absence of right-of-way rules, a target area covering the entire ...
The Riposte is the offensive action delivered immediately after a successful parry, completing the defensive-offensive cycle that is the foundation of fencing tactics — the defender parries the incomi...
The Disengage Attack is an indirect attack where the fencer passes the blade under or around the opponent's blade to change the line of engagement and deliver a thrust to the newly opened line. [1] Th...
The Standard Attack On Preparation executes the timed offensive action by reading the opponent's preparatory movement (typically a forward step or arm retraction before their attack) and launching an ...
The Standard Riposte executes the immediate counter-thrust following a successful parry, directing the point back at the opponent's torso while they are recovering from their failed attack. [1] The st...
Standard Winding (Winden) is the fundamental blade-rotation technique of the German longsword tradition: from the bind, the fencer turns the sword by rotating the short edge toward the opponent and dr...
The Coupe Attack (also called the cut-over) is an indirect attack where the fencer lifts the blade over the opponent's tip by withdrawing the point upward and forward, passing over the top of the oppo...
The Weapon class encompasses all fighting techniques that employ an external implement — whether bladed, blunt, flexible, or projectile — as the primary means of offence and defence. [1] Weapon-based ...
The Standard Sabre Parry executes the fundamental blade deflection against incoming cuts or thrusts, using one of the sabre-specific parry positions: quinte (horizontal blade above the head to defend ...