Cupee and Beat & Go
First, we will discuss the cupee (pronounced like tupee). The cupee is actually a move that is an option after a different move. The first move is called the Beat & Go. First, the fencer beats the blade. This is accomplished by striking the opponents blade near the midde. The following images will help illistrate the actions.
The blue arrows show the path of the fencer's blade and the red arrows show the path of the opponent's blade. The purple arrows represent momentum and the force of the blade. In the action of the beat, the fencer transfers the energy from his blade to that of his opponent. The action of this will send the opponent's blade out of the line (represented by the red arrow). when this happens, the fencer lunges at the opponent. If the opponent know what he is doing, he will perform a counterparry. This is accomplished by using the energy from the beat to bring the blade around and parry the lunge. This is represented by the red arrow in picture two. The cupee is the action performed by the fencer in picture two (blue arrow). It is the pulling back of the blade to avoid the counterparry. This is completed during the lunge. After the completion of the lunge, the fencer "punches" at the target sending his point under the parry and hitting target.
Glazad
The second move we are going to discuss is called a glazad. This is both an offensive action and
a defensive action. The point of a glazad is to send the opponents point out of line and ending the
move already in thrust for the lunge. If the move is performed effectively, a counter parry will not
be an option. Lets take a look at our pictures.
In the first image, the orange line represent the foil due to horrible photography. The postion of the fencer's blade, is under the opponents blade in order to "pick up" the blade and make a circular motion towards the opponents outside low target. The result of this can be seen in the second image. The final action is to lunge at the target where the foil is pointing. As the third picture shows, the opponent's blade is almost completely out of his hand. This glazad was performed correctly. In this move, the fencer uses the friction between the two blades for "picking up" the opponents blade. With the combination of friction from the forward motion of the blade and the momentum build up, and because momentum is always conserved, When the fencer ends contact with the other blade, it sends the other blade out of line with a lot more force than the beat & go had in it.
The Incortata and Pasata Soto
The next two moves are based upon the idea that it is better to avoid the blade altogether and attack where the fencer least expects it. The pasata soto is a move when the fencer drops to the ground when an opponent lunges at them. the words"pasata soto" translate to literally mean to pass underneith. The following pictures demonstrate what the pasata soto and incortata look like.
The first image is what a pasata soto is supposed to look like. It is just dropping straight to the ground and letting the opponent skewer himself on the fencer's blade. The fencer accomplishes this by removing his back leg from support, and letting gravity force him to fall on his other leg. If this is performed fast enough,the opponent wont have time to react. The second image is of an incortata. it is actually using the nonweapon hand to bring the body out of the line of the opponent's lunge. This is also done while pointing the blade at the opponent thus impaling him on the blade. This is accomplished because of the fact that force=massxaccelleration. By "flinging" the arm backwards towards the fencer's back. The accelleration of the hand pulls the body along with it so that the acceleration is enought to move in time to get out of the way of the opponent's blade.
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