Then again, i have serious doubts about how many people from the club actually reads this blog.
Now that jon has covered his favourite basic attack move in fencing. I should now cover my basic attack move. The lunge.
Before you start fleching, you should actually learn how to lunge.
For a fast lunge, push as hard as possible onto the piste with ur backfeet to get enought momentum to move forward.
F = d (mv) / dt
Since m is constant
F = m dv/dt
F= ma
Where is a is the average acceleration, but since the amount of force from the extension of ur muscles in ur left/right thigh muscles is not constant, an integral of the area under the graph is needed to find the exact acceleration.
So fencing is not really about speed, otherwise known as velocity. It's about acceleration. (proven)
Yup, enough with the physics. More fencing theory. Though ur theoretically supposed to land on the heel of ur front foot and the angle at ur front leg is supposed to be 90 degrees. If you observe the videos containing fencing pros carefully, you wil find that they don't do it. Some of them drag their feet, some of them over lunge, some of them under lunge.
To categorise the various lunges and their prerequisites:
For a long lunge. You need long legs. (like daniel)
For a fast lunge. You need strong legs.
For a short lunge. You need short legs. (like jon)
So, after all that, what exactly is a good lunge?
It's actually just a lunge that allows you to score the point without getting hit. This is best done with good ODT.
*Still wondering who actually reads whatever we post here...*
*Good luck to those who still have S papers. Like Bio S. etc.. it's onli 3 more days!*
