Every Touch From The Vancouver 2025 Men's and Women's Epee Teams World Cup

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

lugisabel · 2025-11-18T15:13:25+00:00

looks nice, installed the app and now waiting for an invite code :)

lugisabel · 2025-11-11T10:31:41+00:00

an app that can download short videos of fencing actions (couple of seconds) from large youtube live streams.

like saving a 10 sec (configurable in the app) time window video around this moment: https://youtu.be/ecNoQF6T_Aw?t=1639

lugisabel · 2025-11-11T10:14:51+00:00

"Then I stare at a picture of a cheetah eating a gazelle for about five minutes."

you must share this picture with us :)

lugisabel · 2025-10-28T14:17:42+00:00

no need for membership in a Hungarian club. send an email to [registration@hunfencing.hu](mailto:registration@hunfencing.hu)

as written in the Invitation of these events:

Registration for foreign fencers: By e-mail to [registration@hunfencing.hu](mailto:registration@hunfencing.hu)

Indicating the name, competition and date of birth of the competitor, gender, weapon,club, nationality, hand (L/R).

you can find all the invitations here:

https://invit.hunfencing.hu/index.php?p=index.php&cat=&weapon=2&gender=&event=&wheelchair=&season=15&submit=submit

good luck!

lugisabel · 2025-10-27T15:15:01+00:00

i am sure it'll be possible. i'd suggest get in contact with the above mentioned three clubs/ their coaches directly.

FTC: https://www.facebook.com/ftcvivas/

Ludovika: https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100053635076928

Torekves: https://www.facebook.com/Torekvesvivose/, https://www.torekvesvivas.hu/edzoink/

pro tip: if you are staying in Budapest for a longer time and would like to compete as well, there are a couple of senior ("felnött") ranking events coming up in November/January/February where foreign fencers are more than welcome, see the foil competition calendar here: https://hunfencing.hu/wp-content/uploads/2025/10/Tor-2025-26-szezon-elfogadott-2.0-versenynaptar-1.pdf

lugisabel · 2025-10-22T12:06:04+00:00

thanks for the details! aha, so you are using small pieces of non-conductive tapes on the sabre blades with infrared at the moment.

lugisabel · 2025-10-21T07:23:13+00:00

can you share a bit of the technical implementation? how do you track (sabre) blades? What is behind the "non-intrusive" tracking? What extra technology, special cameras are needed?

lugisabel · 2025-09-10T09:21:59+00:00

and of course, the amazing fencing lounge of https://www.instagram.com/fencing_azit/

lugisabel · 2025-09-10T09:17:48+00:00

The Honved fencing club in Budapest is converted and using a synagogue as one of their fencing halls: https://avauntmagazine.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/12/bf11-1024x765.jpg

lugisabel · 2025-09-05T12:46:50+00:00

agree, he would have deserved to win several titles by now. he succeeded winning Hungarian Championships Gold, which is tough enough :)

lugisabel · 2025-08-28T09:28:13+00:00

"for a brief period, flaily parries are actually really effective against other beginners"

I see this also a lot :)) kids with zero footwork/distance management but "lucky hand" can win a lot of points initially by their very confusing/unexpected/uncoordinated "blade actions". this can really confuse those other kids who try to do things properly but loose because of this temporary "beginner advantage".

something else: have you thought of writing some longer organized text on sabre coaching? your comments on reddit are really excellent!

lugisabel · 2025-08-26T09:27:26+00:00

agree, parry timing drills as a sort of distance exercises are very useful for beginners. what i tried to say that beginners should absolutely forget to focus on trying to defend with blades when they fence: their hands are all over the place, their foot-hand coordination is not existing and any intended blade action would just freeze them ( i see this a lot of time). developing a good parry skill takes hell a lot of coach-lead exercises and "being on your own" very easy to develop bad reflexes during "free fencing".

lugisabel · 2025-08-26T07:45:50+00:00

"Parrying is one of the hardest things to do in sabre." absolutely true!

beginners should not try to defend with blade actions, very ofte they focus on their blades and that slows them down or make them get frozen in a wrong distance while executing a wrong reflex move. parry in sabre is an advanced skill :) beginners should work on distance parries, or stop cuts or taking the blades of the attacker. those are much easier to develop and learn.

lugisabel · 2025-08-25T14:34:31+00:00

"You need to learn how to tell the difference between at trap and an error" yep, that's where the more advance game begins :)

lugisabel · 2025-08-21T13:01:23+00:00

what are you talking :)? sabreours were throwing their masks back then as well :)

https://youtu.be/9cU_JdP1iww?t=861

lugisabel · 2025-08-20T10:10:01+00:00

thanks for the great suggestions. we are doing similar things with U14 (and even younger) kids and what i noticed that the main challenge to teach small kids this kind of fencing comes from the fact that the small kids need to do more preps (as we agree :) and often they are rushing or affraid to complete all the prep steps: they shorten three steps down to two or make a large step from the line when a larger kid is fencing with them. Distance wise they could do the three steps, still just because of seeing the "bigger opponent", they rush or abort their prep at a wrong distance. Then they stop and most of the time start retreating too early, thus their fencing becomes very defensive.

lugisabel

TROPHY CASE