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Need to make it to the top ... .with a Pop & Shove in Skateboard?This video will teach you how.

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Want to take a turn? On a skateboard ramp? This video will show you how.

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Get into a smoother grove, by gaining momentum. This video will show you how.

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Drop in, on your skateboard ramp. This video will show you how.

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You know the score, or maybe you just think you do. Learn how to keep score in fencing. This video will show you how.

pearl Click here for more on "Instructional Fencing"]]> Transcript of This Video My name is Brad Bogus. Next I am going to guide you through how to score in foil fencing. A lot of people call foil fencing physical chess and the reason is because there are a lot of rules involved in how you score. You can't merely just hit your sword on the other opponent and score a point. Instead there is a lot of strategy involved and that strategy is known as right of way. To gain right of way, you have to be the first fencer to initiate the attack and complete it. This can get very confusing and it might take a little research on your part to understand fully but to establish right of way if two fencers are facing each other in the arm guard position as I am now and one of initiates the attacks and they see attack he has established runaway by being the first fencer to initiate the attack. If two fencers are facing each other both in the arm guard position, if I initiate the attack and then he comes after me with a counter attack and we both land our attacks, I will be the fencer to score and that other fencer will not be because I established the right of way and you cannot score without a right of way established. To score in foil fencing, the tip of your foil has to touch any of the target areas on the body also covered by the lamae. In electronic fencing there is a tip that has to be pushed in to complete the circuit. You cannot merely just graze the tip along the target areas you have to actually use a little bit of force and apply the tip to the body like so. Like I said establish your right of way, make your attack, land your attack before the other opponent does and you will score successfully in foil fencing. tag:www.showmehowtodothis.com,2008://1.1309 2008-09-30T05:20:49Z 2008-09-29T21:35:44Z

D-E-F-E-N-S-E De-Fense, De-Fense isn't just for football. Learn about defense in fencing. This video will show you how.

pearl Click here for more on "Instructional Fencing"]]> Transcript of This Video My name is Brad Bogus. Now I am going to guide you through the basic defensive maneuver also known as the parry. The concept of the parry is when an opponent goes to make an attack at you, you take your blade and you deflect their blade away from your target area. Now notice that when I am deflecting I am not waving my sword all the way across my body in a very wild and theatrical way. I have my body here, my sword position guarding my five. If an opponent was to make an attack at my four, so imagine the blade coming towards here I am going to parry it by rolling my wrists over, holding my sword to the inward part of my body with my point facing the opponent. The reason I am not doing this is because I have all this ground to cover just to get my weapon back into their target area. So I just do enough to keep their blade from coming across mine and hitting my target area. All you want to do is block what is necessary not over exert yourself and cause yourself to open on the other side of your body. So all the target areas are named by what you are parrying. You're in five you have a parry attack at four, parry four. To get a defense six, you are going to parry six by rolling your wrists outside of your body, again the point facing the opponent just enough the sword cannot get into your target area. If you want to parry seven, there is two ways. You can lower your wrists downwards so that you are deflecting the blade out to the side and you can make a counter attack or you can drop your blade like so which is another way that is a little bit easier and little bit less effort on the wrist to make a quick parry. If you are going to parry eight pull the wrist outwards, point drop down like this just enough to prevent the sword from hitting your target area. tag:www.showmehowtodothis.com,2008://1.1308 2008-09-30T05:17:12Z 2008-09-29T21:11:18Z

Don't look back, be on the attack. This video will show you how.

pearl Click here for more on "Instructional Fencing"]]> Transcript of This Video Hi, my name is Brad Bogus. Now I am going to guide you through some of the basic attacks in foil fencing. Remember with the attack you have your foil guarding 5 in the middle of your area. Before you make an attack you want to know which target area you are going to attack and pick it and commit. So whenever you make your attack you want to pick the line. The line is known as the target you are to affect. Okay. Now with foil fencing with most fencing you don't want to cut, slash, you're not trying to wax them with your sword. The intended purpose is to take the tip and put it into the opponent's body. So you pick your line, make your attack; you don't slash your attack. Okay. The basic lunge and remember to always keep your mask on when competing. With your basic lunge you are going to pick your line of attack, you're going to make your lunge which is a committed attack and you are going to point your foil straight towards the opponent's body in that affected target area. You pick the attack at 6, extend, and lunge that way the point is going into their body on 6, that's your line. You have your foil pointing towards where you expect and close your distance with your lunge and pull your body back up. tag:www.showmehowtodothis.com,2008://1.1307 2008-09-30T04:56:20Z 2008-09-29T21:13:02Z

Want to be right on target with your fencing? This video will show you how.

pearl Click here for more on "Instructional Fencing"]]> Transcript of This Video Hi my name is Brad Bogus. Now I'm going to guide you through the 5 main target areas in fencing, there are more than 5 but of the main ones and they're usually the ones that you can most comfortably make your attacks toward or defend. Most of the terminology involved in fencing is French so pardon me if I slaughter the pronunciation. You start with 5, 5 is the middle it's the center kind of in between one and 10. 5 is what you're guarding whenever you're on guard. So your foil is here and it keeps you centered on 5. Now depending on whether you're right handed or whether you're left handed, the side target areas are going to flip around, so if you're right handed like myself, the upper hand portion of your labaj is known as 4 or quatre. If you're left handed it would be over here, so this is 4, this is the one that you're going to guard most often as it is the most exposed out of all of the target areas. Directly on the opposite side you have six, or six. So you have 4 - 5 - and 6, those are your main upper target areas. You go to the bottom left hand portion, if you're right handed, it's known as 7 or sep tem and directly on the other side you have 8 or octave, switch around if you're left handed but I'm right handed so I'm showing you, you have 4 you have 5 you have 6, 7 and 8. it's important to know these because there's a lot of officiating involved in fencing and once they can call where your attack was actually made and they can say you attacked on 6, they're going to know more or less that they are actually right because they are able to see the point and officiate perfectly. tag:www.showmehowtodothis.com,2008://1.1306 2008-09-30T04:51:23Z 2008-09-29T21:14:01Z

Make sure your handiwork starts with the basics, especially when holding a foil in your hand! This video will show you how.

pearl Click here for more on "Instructional Fencing"]]> Transcript of This Video Hi my name is Brad Bogus. Now I am going to guide you through some of the basics with the handwork involved in foil fencing. I have already showed you how to hold the weapon, now I have the glove on. The way you hold the weapon as far as your arm goes, you want to keep it a 90 degree angle to your body so that your elbow is right near the bottom of your rib cage. Now you don't want it jammed up against your rib cage because that is too tense and restricts movement. You want to loosely relax maybe your elbow maybe a couple of inches from your body and held at a 90 degree angle with your weapon facing your opponent. The way you hold this weapon to your body is with a slight bent inwards. You don't want to hold it out because it gives them a little more target area. You want to close it off a little bit helping protect you in any kind of basic situation. So you see that it kind of bends inward a little bit this way partly because of the curve of the blade but also that is how I am intentionally holding it to give me a little more security on my target area with my opponent. Your back hand you hold at a 90 degree angle but you hold it upwards. I am sure you have seen this in a lot of sword fighting movies but it is there for a reason. So this is your basic position with your hands. You are going to move and advance on the strip and keep this arm up relatively most of the time until you make a lunge. When you make a lunge, this back arm drops kind of a counter balance you see so you keep your weight distributable even on the strip. So you are on the strip, you move, you lunge, back arm goes down, front arm extends to make your attack and that is how you keep your attack and counter balance working while you are doing your fighting on the strip. This is the basics of your handwork. tag:www.showmehowtodothis.com,2008://1.1305 2008-09-30T04:46:32Z 2008-09-29T21:15:03Z

Lunge, thrust, parry. You should know the basics of fencing. This video will show you how.

pearl Click here for more on "Instructional Fencing"]]> Transcript of This Video Hi, my name is Brad Bogus. Next I am going to guide you through the most important footwork you will need to do in fencing and that is known as the lunge. Now a lot of people are familiar with the lunges and in fencing it works a little bit differently. Now trust me before you start practicing a lunge you are going to have to do a lot of stretches before you do this especially with your hamstring the back of your thigh. So to stretch to prepare for the lunge you are going to get into a basic lunge position. Like I said here is your stance, the lunge is with your front foot as far as you can possibly get it. You want the 90 degree angle between your thigh and the ground and your shin. So you shin will be straight up, straight across parallel to the ground, your back leg should be extended as far as you can possibly get it with your back foot perpendicular to your front foot just like the stance and just like the movement. So go ahead and just stretch just like that so that you get your hamstring prepared for all the different lunge exercises. Also reverse it to squat on your back leg. This gets a really good stretch right here. So once you have your ham strings prepared to lunge go ahead and try it from stance position. You get in a stance also known as arm guard and you go to your front foot as far as you possibly can get it. The point of lunge is to close as much distance to your foot as you can possibly get. That foot perpendicular to the front foot, leg stretched out as much as possible at a 90 degree angle. Practice your lunge with a lot of other foot work basics so go advance, advance lunge, retreat, retreat, when you are doing your practicing foot work like so. In stance, advance, lunge, pull back, retreat, retreat, advance, advance and lunge and close as much distance as you can get that stretch out there and get low to the ground. tag:www.showmehowtodothis.com,2008://1.1304 2008-09-30T04:41:13Z 2008-09-29T21:16:18Z

Now's not the time to cut footloose. Know the basics about your fencing footwork. This video will show you how.

pearl Click here for more on "Instructional Fencing"]]> Transcript of This Video My name is Brad Bogus. Now I am going to guide you through some of basic footwork of fencing. First we will start with the stance. Now all footwork is generally universal in any style; remembering we are doing the foil here. The stance works like so. You face your opponent. If this is my opponent in front of me here I am going to hold my sword, pretend this is my sword, at my opponent here. Okay. I am going to squat with my front foot facing towards my opponent directly and my back foot perpendicular to my front foot facing this way. You want to make your feet about as far apart as your shoulder width and you want to squat down a little bit with your upper body completely straight as if you could draw a line from the top of your head through your tailbone and down to the floor. This is the basic stance. You are going to hold your leg, squat like this slightly in front of you. Now to advance on the strip, you move with your front foot forward and you follow quickly with your back foot like so. That is going to be how you move forward all the way down the strip. Now you are going to want to do this kind of quickly because you definitely don't want your opponent catching up to you. To retreat, exactly the opposite. Back foot forward, follow the front foot. Back foot, follow the front foot. So basically you are gong to want to practice this a few times until you get very comfortable moving up and down the strip as fast as you can possibly get your feet to move because that is the goal of foot work is to keep your distance. Before I show you anything with the sword, you are going to need to know your foot work. That is the most important thing in all of fencing and in all of martial arts. So you are going to want to get this down and practice it a few times too. tag:www.showmehowtodothis.com,2008://1.1303 2008-09-30T04:32:09Z 2008-09-29T21:17:24Z

Fundamentals of fencing begin with the basics. Learn about the weapons and how they are used. This video will show you how.

pearl Click here for more on "Instructional Fencing"]]> Transcript of This Video Hi my name is Brad Bogus. Alright next I'm going to show you the weapon. I'm going to show you all the parts and guide you through the basic fundamentals of what the weapon looks like. Like I said, there are 3 different weapons and with each of them associated a style. The one I'm showing you is foil and this is what it looks like, it looks like your basic sword, very slender blade and very flexible, that's extremely important in fencing. Right here where it bends that's known as the foil it's the most flexible and most pliable part of the blade. You move closer to the end and you have the forte, it's strong and not as bendable, this is where you get most of your control right here. The back part is known as the hilt, starting with the bell guard, the bell guard is known as such because its round and makes kind of a bell sound, as you can see, protects my hand from any sword puncturing it in any way. Right here we have the grip, now the grip can be tricky because there are two basic types of grip. There's a French grip which looks like a long slender handle, has a strong hump on the back which is a weight that keeps the sword distributed evenly and then there's a pistol grip which is what this is. As you can see the pistol grip looks kind of like a pistol, it has a handle has what you would call a barrel and I guess you would call this the hammer, right? There are lots of different types of pistol grips depending on which region they were created in, there's a German pistol grip, a Belgium, a Spanish, an Italian, this one's a German and they're all basically the same, the only difference is the degree in angle of the handle and what not. On the inside, you'll see a little padded piece; this protects your fingers from jamming up against the metal on the inside of the bell guard. On this side we have what's called a bayonet, it's generally a two prong piece that you stick two electrical pieces of metal into that are connected to a wire which goes down the length of your shirt and into a box that registers points. Now it's all electrical, but as I said, you plug in here it's connected to the wire which runs down the length of the blade all the way to the tip. Now with this fencing foil, I'm showing you an electric competitive foil. And if you're using a practice foil, you won't have a tip like this, you'll have generally a rubber piece called a button on the end, but this one is an electrical competitive foil. You'll see a tip, it depresses very slightly and once it does that, and it makes a connection with the labaj, the metal piece that most fencers wear, it creates a circuit and registers a point in the box. That's the basic fundamentals of the weapon; next I'm going to show you some of the basic foot work in fencing. tag:www.showmehowtodothis.com,2008://1.1302 2008-09-30T04:26:58Z 2008-09-29T21:18:15Z

What to wear? Always an important questions, but maybe more so when fencing. This video will show you how to dress to impress.

pearl Click here for more on "Instructional Fencing"]]> Transcript of This Video My name is Brad Bogus. I am a member of the United States Fencing Association and I am going to guide you through some of the basics and advanced techniques of fencing. Now with fencing there are three different styles as well as three different weapons. There is foil, eppe and saber. What I am going to show you today are the basics and advanced techniques of foil fencing. We are going to start with the basic gear that you need to wear before entering a fencing competition or just fencing. Start with the underwear: any kind of tank top or regular undershirt will do; the lighter the better because this gear can get quite hot. Some guys prefer to wear a cup; I'm not opposed to that as it keeps any type of sword hitting you in parts you don't want to get hit. However, maneuver ability with a cup can be a little bit uncomfortable. I choose to opt out. First piece will be your knickers, these pants right here. As you can see they kind of look like knicker bockers they end right here at the end near your calve muscles and they come up to about your belly button with suspenders to keep them up. The next piece you are going to put on is called your underarm protector. This is actually what it says it is. It protects the underarm. It is a little bit of extra cloth and little bit of extra padding to prevent any swords from hurting you excessively. This goes underneath your jacket which I will show you here in a minute and usually whenever your fence in an USFA tournament or regulated tournament, they require you to wear underarm protectors where as in about or replay you may not be required to wear one of these. Put this on underneath and under it goes the jacket. The jacket is basically - just as it is, just the jacket. It has sleeves and everything. The only difference is it has a loop right here at the bottom because it needs to cover also parts you don't want to get with a sword. So step through the loop, arms through the holes and then you just put it on like a real jacket. Depending on whether you are right handed or left handed, the zipper will be oriented as such. So I'm right handed I zip it on the left side. It also latches right here on the neck to help protect your neck from swords. tag:www.showmehowtodothis.com,2008://1.1301 2008-09-30T04:18:35Z 2008-09-29T21:19:46Z

Use your brain, don't be lame. Learn what to wear to safely fence. This video will show youhow.

pearl Click here for more on "Instructional Fencing"]]> Transcript of This Video My name is Brad Bogus. The next piece to go on is called the lame. Now there are two types of foil fencing; electric fencing and dry fencing. Electric fencing is what you will find in any competition or any regulated match. This is an electrical lame. It goes on and as your see it looks like a piece of metal pretty much. It keeps an electric current going when you are playing but I won't get into that now. Either way I am showing it to you now because I want to show you the valid target area and that is what the lame covers. You step through the loop just like when you do with the jacket because this also considered target area. You put it on like a vest and just like the jacket the zipper is worn according to whether you are left handed or right handed. Zip that up, latch it around the neck because the neck is also still valid target area and you are ready to go. Next piece is the glove. This is probably one of the most important pieces as your hands are constantly hit with weapons. Now the glove goes on over your sleeve not under because you don't want a sword poking in through your sleeve and possibly cutting your arm. The glove itself is padded on the outside on the knuckles and on the back of the hands to prevent any swords from hitting you and trust me when that happens, it hurts a lot. The mask prevents any sword obviously from entering your face and it has a neck guard here to provide a little bit more padding in case you get hit in the larynx or anything like that. It latches around the back with this little piece right here and provides a little bit of padding as you can see. You slip it on like so, now you are ready to fight. Next I will show you the techniques with the sword. tag:www.showmehowtodothis.com,2008://1.1290 2008-09-29T22:21:04Z 2008-09-29T21:21:24Z

Wrap your scarf in a snap. This video will show you how.

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