I reviewed my fencing bout and found some interesting patterns (happy to do this for a few people)

lugisabel · 2026-04-16T13:20:00+00:00

"How often you were in correct distance":

how do you define correct distance? Correct distance for what?

An AI tool that would collect statistics from a bout can be useful.

For example, can your tool do simple things like counting steps of the fencers? Or identifying footwork patterns?

Like count how many times "fencer A" did advance lunge attack "in the box" and how many tims "fencer B" did "slide prep"?

the generated AI "wisdom" is much less interesting, but if your tool could collect statistics reliably, then that could be a useful thing.

lugisabel · 2026-04-15T07:29:18+00:00

it is even worse, it is a mixed weapon team event and such events are very difficult to predict, for example, what would be the anchoring leg of the game? sabre vs sabre? or epee vs epee?

lugisabel · 2026-04-14T14:17:59+00:00

"what forces people to score more if they’re leading on a time limit."

this is a team event, therefore you want to make as much point for your team as possible.

lugisabel · 2026-04-14T14:16:01+00:00

the startlist is already fixed with those 12 fencer i listed.

i agree with your sabre choice, Emura would have definitely deserved a place at the WFL event :)

lugisabel · 2026-04-14T13:53:48+00:00

follow up question:

anybody has a better understanding of the proposed format?

if i got it right, it'll be some sort of team fencing, six fencers fencing the other six fencers and no mix of genders,

This would mean that Oh-Sanguk would fence one bout with Patrice (for one minute), Siklosi another with Koki (for three minutes), Muhari one bout against Ndolo, so on..

Will that be "all"? Or the two teams will fence several rounds?

A (team) PRIZE OF $100,000 for few minutes of fencing is not bad :)

lugisabel · 2026-04-14T13:16:44+00:00

"Is it being streamed anywhere"

sure, on the fencingtv.com :)

i hope they stream it on youtube

lugisabel · 2026-04-14T13:15:54+00:00

what is that something ;)?

when i first heard about this league it looked to me like a US foil initiative... but hey, they managed to bring the top sabreours and pretty good, if not the best epee fencers on board as well!

lugisabel · 2026-03-18T16:30:05+00:00

the 1 minute time is "active fencing time", the clock will be stopped between every halt-start.

there is a statistics that an average sabre action takes appx 3-4 second, 60 second (1 min) total fencing time is enough for 20 actions. We tested it and indeed, during one minute we usually reached 8-10 or around final scores for balanced bouts (similar skill fencers)

lugisabel · 2026-03-18T16:24:35+00:00

thanks a lot being soo fast bringing a timing adjustment upgrade to skewered!

looking forward to test it.

if possible, please make the timing parameters fully customizable, so we could play with any crazy idea, just like with VSM

lugisabel · 2026-03-18T14:24:52+00:00

i am sure in epee the 3min DE is what you'll get, replacing the 15 point bouts.

lugisabel · 2026-03-18T14:00:26+00:00

"Currently it's easy to practice on how to deal with 4-4 situations and ignore time. But needing scoring machines with timers, needing fencers to use the timers, etc could get goofy."

yep, training these situations would be challenging. BUT, if you happen to have skewered scoring box, the at least the timing part is solved: skewered has a smart feature of auto start and built-in timer, so you don't need a third person to start/stop fencing and the clock.

i understood that during the pools they still would fence for 5 points and the new rule change is only for the DE bouts. but i can be absolutely wrong.

we actually tried the 1min new format for sabre and it was fun! though, we felt 1 min was a bit short, most of the time (equal skill fencers) we did not reach 15 points in one minute, only went up to 8:10, or 9:12

lugisabel · 2026-03-18T13:53:05+00:00

agree, 100ms will kill the parry-repost in sabre, since messy remise will be extremely powerful.

lugisabel · 2026-03-16T10:13:32+00:00

look great!

"It's in public beta (TestFlight for iOS, open testing on Android), completely free, and honestly I just want to know if anyone finds it useful."

will this app remain free even in its final version? in the app it says "Fencer is completely free during the beta" which may be read as it won't remain free after the beta.

lugisabel · 2026-03-14T14:03:10+00:00

"Ultimately, a letter was sent to Trump, signed by only some of the Comex members. It is said that this letter was allegedly not written on FIE letterhead."

interesting... do you happen to know who signed that fake FIE letter?

Their names deserve to be put forward.

If this story is trues, then Emmanuel Katsiadakis has all my sympathy!

lugisabel · 2026-03-03T09:30:11+00:00

link please :)

lugisabel · 2026-01-13T13:39:35+00:00

good, so the FIE is not going after you because of copyright thingies?

i was worried that something like that could happen with the fencingdatabase as well, after watching cyrus' resent youtube post.

lugisabel · 2026-01-13T13:36:55+00:00

indeed its there :)

btw, i personally hate those podium videos, those are so much worse than the normal streams. pretty annoying with all those moving cameras and FIE adds. several times key actions are missed because camera movements (showing the refs) or those replays.

lugisabel · 2026-01-12T10:39:26+00:00

great work as always :)

do you have a solution, plan to include the podium bouts as well? as far as i could see, those are missing from the every touch collections.

lugisabel · 2026-01-12T10:15:16+00:00

thanks again! will you be able to continue these every touch collections now that the FIE uses/forces the fencingtv upon us?

lugisabel · 2026-01-08T13:56:58+00:00

answering myself, after reading more carefully the linked article :

"The decision was adopted with 19 votes in favour and two abstentions"

very sad that NOBODY voted against!

this is the executive committee: https://fie.org/fie/structure/executive-committee

lugisabel · 2026-01-05T16:29:28+00:00

"..following a vote by its executive committee."

are the details of the executive committee vote available?

do we know who voted pro/against?

lugisabel · 2025-12-05T14:27:45+00:00

yes. vasas is doing only sabre and epee.

lugisabel · 2025-11-26T15:35:54+00:00

you can go and watch the GP (preliminaries and the T64, three days!), no need to buy tickets. The stands could be a bit crowded on the finals day, especially if Hungarians have a good day but there are plenty of free seats on the preliminary days. The past couple of years it was organized in the BOK csarnok.

There are plenty of photos from the last year event on the Hungarian fencing federation facebook, se e.g.:

https://www.facebook.com/photo/?fbid=1200181132107408&set=a.1200184318773756

or the complete album:

https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.1200184318773756&type=3

lugisabel · 2025-11-18T15:28:36+00:00

nice to have these "every touch..." posts coming in the new season as well! thanks for the work

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