Fencing related games and exercises

Leg training

Marche and rompre

Do marche or rompre over a series of arms / hockey sticks that are placed on the floor. The children may only have one foot in the space between a set of sticks, which teaches children to move the foot in motion direction only.

Assult against Glove

Cooperate in pairs, one with a glove in kicking height in various distances from the other child. The second child makes the assult and try to kick the gauntlet before the assult is finalized. Can later be created with marche assults, jump backward assults or ballaistre assults.

Catch the Glove

Two and two together. One holding a glove high in the air. The one holding the glove drops the glove, and his partner then have to catch the glove at the same time as he is doing marche, fleche assult or other legwork.

Variation

The coach stands in front of the pupil with a glove in each hand. The student makes quartz battery meant whereby the glove is pushed to the side with the weapons hand then the other glove action with the outcome.

Who can kick the longest

A coin or chicken ring is placed under the front feet, the student makes the outcome whereby fowl ring slipped off. Can be created as a competition who can shoot the longest.

Kick the Glove to Mate

Partners are facing each other in EnGarde position. One provider submit a glove on his feet and makes an outcome so that the glove kicked up in the air. This enables the makkeren to take the glove. This exercise can also be made with ballaistre.

Catch the Glove first

The children stand in pairs facing each other, with the coach between them. Coach released a glove between each pair, it is now executive powers to seize gauntlet with outcome. Who’s fastest? With a little routine you can have a glove in each hand and clear two double team one time.

Who is the fastest

Two and two opposite each other in En Garde position. The task is "hit your opponent on the inside of the front knee with your weaponhand". To get the right distance, every kind of legwork except fleche can be used.

Equal much weight on both legs

Stand in En Garde position with weight put equally on both legs, so you can lift your feet faster than the hockey stick you partner moves along the floor. The stick is moved in a random order in front of the front foot or behind the back.

The coach says

When the coach says his name before an order, then the order is to be executed. For example "Martin says do the assult", the children must make assaults. If the order is not performed, not performed promptly, or performed incorrectly that player is out of the game. If the trainer does not mention his name in an order, so it should not be performed, and players who does anyway looses the game, in this case the players should be standing completely quiet. The game continues until only one child is left, who then is the winner.

Legwork with mirror

As a routine legwork, where pupils are placed in a row in front of the coach. When the coach shows the back of the hand to the the kids, it is a fencing match and children must do the opposite of the coach: eg. coach makes marche - the kids must do rompre and vice versa. When the coach shows the palms to the kids, this is a mirror image and children must therefore do the same thing as the coach: eg. trainer do rompre - the children do rompre.

Variation

Make the game into a competition where you drop out of the game or get "punishment" for example pushups if you go the wrong way, or respond too late.

Station exercise / circle training

Split the children into small groups and make 4-6 stations at which various forms of legwork must be done. The kids are at each station for 1 or maybe 2 minutes for older children and adolescents. Make a short break when the children will change to the next station. Make sure children are well aware that the exercises must be carried out properly and give a thorough instruction before start and during the activity.

Legwork Lab

Find the best marche, rompre, assult and ballaistre out of many kinds, as the coach shows the children: Ordinary (short and quick small steps), long, very short, on the heels, on toes, slow, torso bent, torso bent over backwards, on the inside of your feet, on the outside of the feet, on one leg, etc. The participants tries the various ways of making the moves and are consulted and decide (hopefully) to the best of its kind. An educational and entertaining way to show children what is right and wrong in fencing positions.

Red light stop

The coach stands with his back to the children. It is about to reach the person standing as soon as possible, but when the person turns the children must be standing correctly and quietly otherwise they have to go back and start over. Work with marche, rompre when you have to go back and standing in en garde.

Reaction legwork

The children placed in two rows facing each other. One team is called "1 " the second "2 ". Each team has a starting line and a baglinie. The coach shouts "1" or "2". The figure who shout, to capture the second number, so the fencer as he faced before that when his baglinie. The hunter doing marches and the victim does rompre.

Assult reaction game

The children stand in a row and each is assigned a number. When the coach makes a move, for example. pointing at them and shout their number, they quickly makes an assault. The coach must surprise the kids and because fencing is visually, the children must react to the movement not the should. Try to cheat them by pointing to someone other than the number belongs.

Keep distance or drop the mask

The children are grouped together in pairs. They stands En Garde and trapped between the weapon hands is a mask. One child decides the direction and makes marche or rompre, the other child must follow or otherwise drop the mask, they may not say anything, the following child must respond to his partners movements. After a period the children change tasks.

Variations of ordinary legwork

• Leg work with closed eyes.
• Shadow parry or shadow parry with closed eyes.
• Let the children carry the weapon in the hand while doing leg work.
• Write your name with the tip of the weapon, using small movements.
• Working with the weapon and doing leg work at the same time.

Weapon- control and technics

Can You Hit

Fencers facing the trainer, keep this in the first place his hand-knotted, fencing follow the hand with the tip. At one point, opened the hand so that palm appears fencers must now frame the hand by either stretching the arm, low marche or outages.

Fencing Ring Ridning

Hanging a string of good height d.v.s. so that nobody gets the string in his neck. Create a guide appendage in the middle of the long string with a shorter leash. In this pendant, which will hang in a little above shoulder height of a child who hooks a paper clip. Paper clip fastened a keychain or the like. Participants must now try to catch the ring on their arms, either by fleche w. optional weapons at distance 2.5-3m or on the back of his partner in running from my. 5m distance. No braking allowed. This is hard, so you can confidently offered a soda to everyone who can get in the ring. This would be good if one is so clever that you can demonstrate that it can actually be done.

Game of Pirates 2

Children divided into two pirate teams. Each team equipped with foam rubber swords or fleur pans, gloves and masks. The course may be limited to a slope. Placed back on the track team’s treasure trove (eg a power-West = silver treasure). The team who first gets hold of his opponent’s tax has won. You die if you get hit on the upper body minus head and arms (torso). When one is dead, Those who are outside of the track. If you use a piste which runway you can also say that the slopes are a ship that is the table of pirates or two ships sailed into each other.

The coach is a judge and be consistent. The game can be made harder by only the front of the body count, this is also for safety preferable if fence with foil.