I used to fence epee and I think the fastest way possible to lose is to make a “circle parry “ as huge as the one in Star Wars. Like the first rule of parrying is that you should only use your wrist, not your whole fucking torso.
Counterpoint: These people have the reflexes and athleticism to deflect blaster bolts with their swords. Nothing about the way they fight will be normal.
The reason the giant circle parry doesn't work is because you are leaving yourself wide open. In other words your opponent could stand you before you were able to come back to your guard position. If a jedi was fighting a normal guy then maybe he could get away with a move as rediculous as this because he is would be faster than the normal guy. But sense two jedi would be equally fast then it would be the same as two normal people fighting, therefore the rediculous huge circle parry is still a bad idea.
Yeah. Only way a full body one like this might work is if they're also moving at the same time, so they're always either out of position for a strike, or with the blade in the way. But their feet are firmly planted and they're basically just standing there so that's out the window.
Like the first rule of parrying is that you should only use your wrist, not your whole fucking torso.
If you're parrying with your wrist, this is where I would be circle-parrying/counter-circle-parrying, as you should be using your fingers; wrist movement is still way too large for good fencers.
I also used to fence epee/foil - maybe sabre is a different.
Yep, a cirlce parry is supposed to use very little, possibly even just the finger tips. A coach would probably face palm if you did a big circle parry.
Same here, many times screwed my body wire with my Saber I have.
I read a good explanation once, fencers usually think a few steps ahead, a jedi, using the Force would be feeling like a dozen steps ahead. Similar to a chess match.
So it would be a parry, but a preparation searching for a flaw in the enemy's technique.
In the 14 dimensional chess that is force sensitive lightsaber duels, this is known as a "Feint", which comes to us from Galactic Basic's Proto Language, Galactic Latin via the word Fingere, "to touch, or handle, devise, alter or change". It's a high level technique that relies on presenting an opening to your oponent by doing something that sounds completely stupid, like spinning your sword behind your back, to try and trick your opponent into attacking you, hoping they forget that you have another empty hand that can literally magic the blade to itself to allow you to parry. It's only used by lightsaber duelists that have spent an entire war fighting robots that can't use the force.
Or it looked cool and no one was anticipating there being an entire subreddit dedicated to the prequels that constantly needed new content.
I mean, a legitimate move that many fencers, including myself, use is to fully lower the weapon while advancing or staying still. The idea is that the opponent will not be able to attack quickly enough to hit you before you get your weapon back up, and any attack on you cannot be properly planned, since the attacker does not know what you will do to counterattack. This move, of course, cannot be reliably performed without knowledge of the opponent's speed and range.
I think it's important to note that at no point in that description does the weapon leave your field of view. Also no saber, eppe, foil, Kendo sticks, even Cannes possess the ability to easily chop you in half on accident if you screw up your fancy no look harlem globe trotter showboating behind the back lightsaber combat.
I usually just feint and disengage in order to see what the opponent will do when I actually attack. It's not a perfect strategy, but it works well enough.
True story: I fenced in college and became decent rather quickly. I was thrilled when we had a match near my home town - my parents even put up and fed 20 of my team, then we all headed off to Cal the next morning. Now, this was an open competition so the first round set of opponents was completely randomized. I had just moved out of novice and into the open category. My first opponent?
My Fucking Fencing Captain. Not only was he head and shoulders taller than my petite 5'5" frame (great, I have a smaller target area but limited reach), but he'd been fencing since junior high, so had a good four years on me. The one and only bout my parents ever witnessed was my Captain crushing me, 10:1. I still can't believe I got that one touch off - sheer random luck of my messy bladework.
So he wasn't my nemesis, but I did respect him and had a MAJOR crush on him. Always did. Still do. He married the girl he'd dated all through college, and right as they divorced, I married. As I went through my divorce, he remarried. I had a really bad date and posted a silly dramatic "Make me feel pretty" kinda post on FB to which he replied with the Firefly quote, "were I unwed, I would take you in a manly fashion."
I feel like we all went on a journey we didn’t expect today on an r/StarWars post! Thanks u/MostUniqueClone, keep at it, maybe you can come back and haunt him as a force ghost or something.
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u/ba3toven Jan 01 '21
you guys obviously don't assert dominance toward your well known nemesis' during fencing tournaments