Physical Education: 2023

Fencing

One of the most unknown sports of the Olympic Games is fencing. Our boys were aware of all the sports and fencing was not going to be less. Cobito was always fascinated by the whole world of swords since he read Alejandro Dumas' work, "The Three Musketeers." The play tells the feats of a young D'Artagnan who, saying goodbye to his parents, left his house to go to Paris, in search of honors and adventures. D'Artagnan only carried his horse, a beautiful sword that his father had given him and a handful of coins. The trip was very long until he arrived in Paris and along the way he met some gentlemen with whom he had to fight. D'Artagnan was brave and daring, he was not afraid of anyone. When he arrived in Paris, he went to meet Mr. Treville, who was the captain of the musketeers. D'Artagnan soon met the three most famous musketeers in Paris: Athos, Porthos and Aramis with whom he initially had several encounters. At that time, people were very easily offended and when this happened they fought in duels using swords. This happened to D'Artagnan with the three musketeers. The day he had met them to fight, about 15 guards of Cardinal Richeliu appeared there.

What are you doing, musketeers? Are you going to fight in a duel? Don't you know that it's forbidden?

Cardinal Richeliu's guards and Mr. Treville's musketeers could not be seen, they were fatal. But DÁrtagnan couldn't imagine that that exchange of pulls was going to end in a full-blown confrontation! The ladybug was put together!DÁrtagnan didn't think about it, he drew his sword and started fighting next to the three musketeers, putting their rivals on the run. And from this anecdote, the motto of One for all and all for one! which refers to the importance of teamwork and collaboration between them to achieve things.(Adaptation The Three Musketeers. Alejandro Dumas)

See chapter of the previous fragment.

The fencing

Fencing is an elegant, feminine and masculine sport, dating back to very ancient times: the ancient Egyptians already dressed with wooden sticks. It consists of a fight between two people, with a knife (flower, sword or saber) and on a rectangular track. The purpose is to touch the opponent with the paint of the weapon on certain parts of the body. He tries to dodge the attack and counterattack. Grimists earn a point for each headdress. The first one with 15 headdresses wins the fight. Concentration and strength are important in fencing. Fencers must have good reflexes and good technique, and must be able to detect the weak points of their adversary to plan the attack.

Fencing is one of the eight sports included in the first Olympic Games of the Modern Era in 1896. It is the only Olympic sport of Spanish origin.

Fencing in English is fencing.

The fencing material

You can see the material used in fencing practice in this video. Click HERE.

MASK.- That protects the face with a stainless steel mesh on the front and a canvas beet for the neck.

GLOVE.- Made of leather or reinforced fabric to protect the armed hand. It usually has an extension that covers the forearm to prevent the weapon from entering the sleeve.

A WHITE SUIT.- consisting of pants and jacket. The pants cover up to the knees and the jackets are usually kevlar which is the material of the bulletproof vests.

WHITE SOCKS AND SNEAKERS with reinforcements on the sides.

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The track

The fencing track is about 14 meters long and about 2 meters wide. It is divided into three parts, center line, guard line and warning line. If a shooter crosses the warning line, the referee says "stop."

The referee

"On guard." - The shooters will be placed on the line of on guard. This happens whenever an assault is started and after an assault.
"Ready".- Once the shooters are on guard, the voice is given having to respond to the shooters; if they do not answer, it is considered affirmative.
"Go ahead." - When the players are on guard and prepared, the assault begins.
"Stop".- The fight stops with the voice of "Stop" of the main referee after a headdress. In that case, the shootersare placed on the guard lines.

What do we have to learn to get started?

1. Regards. To indicate respect for the adversary and sport. At the beginning and end of all fights and lessons.

Stand upright with the heels together at a right angle.
The view addressed to the person who receives the greeting. The weapon is directed from tip to bottom to blade on the chin, the mask under an unarmed arm.
The armed arm ends under the mask.

Watch the video

Motor task 1: practice the greeting several times until it goes well

2. The Guard.- "Prepare for attack, counterattack and defense" the initial assault position.

When: at the beginning or after the completion of any of the fencing actions.

Legs: Tip of the foot, knee, hip and hand armed in the same direction.
Feet apart the width of the shoulders. Conductive foot directed towards the adversary and open retarded foot (90o angle).
Bent knees.
Weapon arm: Attitude of the folded arm arm holding the weapon without pressing and the tip directed at the opponent.
Unarmed arm: Shoulder relaxed arm over the shoulder with bent elbow and rested hand (like the tail of a scorpion)

Watch the video

Motor task: practice the on-call position several times until it goes well.

3. The displacements: MARCH, BREAK, BOTTOM AND ARROW.

With displacements we intend to create a timely distance to touch our opponent. This must be during the entire assault as an attack or as preparation for the attack. It is necessary to maintain balance between the two legs (like sitting in a chair). You should avoid raising your hip during the movement.

In MARCH, move the foot forward looking for the floor with the heel, without dragging feet and pushing with the back foot.

In the BREAK, move your foot from the back looking with the tip and then the heel, without dragging feet.

BACKGROUND.- Attack movement, explosive and more used to touch the opposite., movement of the armed arm extending forward, throwing the front leg and ankle a little below the height of the knee. The back leg is completely extended. The body as vertical as possible and the back arm extends parallel to the extended leg.

ARROW.- Throw the body forward, dropping the weight on the forward leg, remaining bent. The arm armed in line with the blade, completely stretched, points towards the target. Finally, to avoid falling, the previously overdue leg will occupy an advanced position to regain balance.

This element consists of making an imbalance of the body forward, dropping the weight on the forward leg, remaining flexed.

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Immune system

Motor task: practice moving forward and backward, the bottom and the arrow several times until it goes well.

4. The whites

Look at the following illustration. Depending on which weapon we use, we can touch one part of the body or another. In the flower only the trunk, in the sword all over the body and in the saber trunk and mask.
We will only play with the white of the flower.

The fencing lines divide the valid white of the opposite into 4 imaginary portions.

Depending on where we want to go, our armed hand will take one position or another.

Notice that the outer area is the area where we have the flower. If we are left-handed, it would be the left area.

Florete.

5. Hand actions

The hand can take a total of 8 positions. These can be classified according to putting the fingers up (supposition) or down (pronation).

Supination: sixth, fourth, eighth and seventh.
Pronation: third, fifth, second and first.

Do you remember the lines we saw a little higher up?

These divide the body into four zones with two perpendicular imaginary lines, one that runs through the spine and the other goes horizontally to the chest, depending on the area we want to touch, the hand adopts 8 positions.

They can also be classified into:

External upper line: sixth and third positions.
Internal high line: fourth and fifth positions.
External low line: eighth and second positions.
Internal low line: seventh and first positions.

Movements of guard, defense

Attacks on the lines

Grips of the flower, sword, saber.

Women's World Championship Final

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The video is narrated in English, don't worry, the important thing here are two things: look at how they play and what loose words you are able to understand. Cheer up!

Men's Olympic Final at the 2012 London Olympics

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To find out more...

LEARNING TASKS

Make a flower with the help of your parents. The best material to do it is the churro to learn to swim (it's a soft material). You can also do it with the polyethylene insulator that is used in heating and plumbing.
Here are some ideas with other material for its elaboration:

Video 1.
Video 2.

Motor tasks:

Practice the greeting.
Study and learn the "On guard" position.
Practice traveling:

From "On guard" move forward. (walk) and back (break).
Practice the attack movements.The background and the arrow.

Family with the flower.
With a balloon, hit the balloon with the flower and practice the different positions of the hand.
Hit the balloon with the flower while practicing the movements.
Previous Idem but hit the balloon only with the tip of the sword.
With a partner, try to steal his balloon.
Couples. Grief. Each one with a balloon, they try to steal the opponent's balloon by keeping his own in the air. The one who falls to the ground loses. He then returns to the guard position.
On a sheet of paper with the following drawing. Stick it on a door, wall, tree...

From a short distance, touch the third sector.
Tap with a step forward to the third sector, guard and step back.
Touch the fourth sector with a bottom, break and guard.
Tap sector two with an arrow.
Advance two or three steps and touch with the bottom.
On guard, advance two steps with an armed arm in line, break, move forward again and bottom.
Make runs with the correct guard position.
Move backwards without crossing your legs and keeping your armed arm in line.
Lock the partner's sword and back (break) correctly. If someone is touched, the fight stops and returns to the guard position at the beginning. Always like that.
We remember that to attack:

External upper line: sixth and third positions.
Internal high line: fourth and fifth positions.
External low line: eighth and second positions.
Internal low line: seventh and first positions.

Florete.

In pairs.

To relax at the end of the day:

Do the following yoga exercises this week before going to bed.

30 seconds. 2 times

15 seconds. 2 times

20 seconds on each side. 2 times

10 seconds. 4 times

15 seconds on each side. 2 times

ACTIVITIES:

Make a drawing of Cobi fencer (they are also called shooters)
Watch the chapter of Dartacan and the three mosqueperros as a family. You can also watch the movie of the three musketeers.
Take a photo by doing some task of the proposals. Send along with the Cobi drawing to jorge.gargom.1@educa.jcyl.es (At the end of the quarter a video souvenir album will be made. If they have not given authorization, they can take a photo from behind or put an emoji.
Make a flower with soft material (foam from the churros of the pools, polyethylene that covers pipes, paper, cardboard...)
Learn how to do the greeting, the guard, attacks and defenses. Practice some of the proposed motor tasks.
Yoga exercises proposed before going to bed.
Be happy and love each other.