"See the Preparation". AiP is now executed at medium distance with a lunge instead of the close distance used in Part 3 of this lesson.

Gia Kvaratshelia, varsity foil coach at Notre Dame continues lesson focused on attack with a disengage when the coach makes a preparation (attempts to take or engage the fencers the blade in the 4 line). He keeps score, making the lesson more bout-like and tells Nicks coach, Wendell Kubik to remind him with strip-side coaching to See the Preparation This makes it easier for the fencer and the coach to make this action work in a real bout. During competition, the coach can use the same terminology, and refer to this specific action, when coaching from strip-side.

The first three touches Gia forces the student to be out-of-distance. Nick self corrects. Gia stresses that distance must be perfect. Coach does parry riposte if Nick attacks out-of-distance. Nicks footwork must be perfect to maintain the perfect distance for the attack into preparation. Note this action is practiced from medium distance and is executed with a lunge.

Score is 3-3. At around 2:43 is an example of a mistake by the fencer that requires correction. Nick is at the perfect distance for the AiP but Gia points out that his extension is too slow, he moves the front foot before he extends and by that time the coach closes the line.

Gia talks about simulating the degree of difficulty in the lesson. Every touch matters leading up to the week before a major competition (North American Cup, Jr. Olympics, Jr. World Cup). He talks about simulating real world competitive situations in the lesson leading up to critical competitions. After a big competition, he decompresses the students with lessons that review mechanical skills in a less stressful lesson environment. At 4:03 he talks about working on simple set skills in the lessons the week before a competition because the emotional/psycho stress it too high. But a month away from big competitions, like the Jr. Olympics, the coach must create pressure on the fencer during the lesson. He says, You cant hide from the pressure.

Nick loses the bout-lesson, 5-4 on a parry riposte from Gia. Gia asks why did you attack late, and Nick says he hesitated because of pressure. Gia says "then I achieved my goal". He goes on to say that he will work many times on this action until the fencer can execute without failure. He will find the situations that make him fail and work on them until the fencer achieves success in those situations.

In the next portion, he develops off the original action. Nick does AiP when the coach attempts to take his blade in 4. In this case, Gias says he has run into a phenom who can still make the parry 6 and Nick will need to do a parry in 6 with disengage. They start slow.

Nick fails to keep the distance when retreating at the beginning, and Gia scores twice. Gia mixes the actions sometimes the AiP succeeds and sometimes the counter parry by Nick is required.

Gia increases the distance to advance lunge distance at the end of this clip. Now the fencer must break into lunge distance the critical distance to deliver the touch. He gives him a set piece where the fencer must do a double disengage around the coaches attempt to take the blade twice in 4.

and the rest is in Part 6..

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