| Sabre. Weapon of distinction. |
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| Sabre: Attacking is key, however highly skilled fencers can defend with great success as well. Gone are the days of endless and pointless simultanious attacks. Fencers find it difficult to chase a balanced opponent with impunity as they could before the crossover attack was made illegal. Stop-hits and Pris' de fir dominate today's sabre finals. Distance ripostes now make unchecked aggression a liability. |
| Men's Sabre National rankings Congrats Ivan Lee US Sabre Champion! Women's Sabre National ranking Congrats Sada Jacobson US Sabre Champion |
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| Recent changes: When the fencer on the left's weapon touches the fencers on the right's mask or body, the red light goes on. When the fencer on the right's weapon touches the fencer on the left's mask or body, the green light goes on. And when they both hit at the same time, both lights go on. If you have any questions you can click here to email me for a more absurdly simple explaination. Be prepared for sarcasm. If both fencers hit, the referee determines which fencers had right of way when the hits occurred. The fencer that attacks first has right of way until his blade is parried or he misses the target. |
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| The rules: Sabre evolved from calvalry training so target area is anything and everything above the waist. Touches can be scored with the edge and the point of the weapon unlike foil and epee. Once an opponent makes a cut that does not arrive on target his attack is considered "short" or "parried by distance." His opponent immediately gains the right to riposte. Example: If one fencer cuts and misses, and in the next tempo both fencers cut and hit, only the fencer who made the first (unsuccessful) cut will be counted as touched. A cut which arrives on the guard will be counted as parried. However it is common for certain cuts to whipover the guard causing the light to go on indicating the touch arrived despite the fact that it hit the guard. Various methods of protecting the defender from this situation have been implemented, but with no success. Some referee's will ignore the immediate light and allow the riposte. Most will not ignore the scoring equipment and will count any action that turns on a light as having arrived. Wise fencers now parry with adequate distance whenever possible to avoid the occurance of "whipover." Any forward motion that brings the rear foot past the front foot will result in any action made by the fencer at fault being anulled, and a yellow card being given. |
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