Men's Individual /fencing/ Thread

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first for the baltics

hit me with your best streams, lads

It's surprising how much faster and exciting men's is. This sport doesn't rely require extreme strength or speed, but the movements also feel much more deliberate.

I'd like to see a male-female champion match to see differences in style.

Britannia shall be victorious

Can anyone give me a brief explanation how the scoring system works

BBC stream is showing an empty fucking track

That's more to do with the weapons than gender. Foil is a lot faster and more explosive where as epee (which the women were doing yesterday) is played at a more delibrate pace and goes to the time limit much more often.

Hit somebody with your sword in, target area depends on the 3 types
gain 1 point

Both people score 1 point if they both get a hit within 0.2 seconds of eachother

thanks

Yeah its bullshit, and the crowd is going wild so something very exciting must be happening off camera

what does it mean when the white light goes off, and they both reset?

this stuff is cool as fuck but i dont really understand it desu.

Foil? You have to hit them in the chest area (not including arms, legs and head) if one light comes up then that person scores (or if a white light comes up then that means they hit outide of the target area so don't get any points) if two come up, regardless of colour, the person who has the "advantage" scores the hit/miss. If you're the initial attacker coming forward then you have advantage but if your opponent parrys your blade or you attack and miss then they'll have advantage on their attack immeadiately after that.
That probably is a shit explanation but you have Google.

That's only for epee.

That means they scored a hit, but it was in an invalid area of the body, so they start over

When are our boys fencing?

This empty lane isn't providing much entertainment

Fuck you BBC

REEEEEEEEEE

That means they hit someone but not in the target area. So they don't score and they reset.

it made it a lot clearer for me thanks

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Brill, cheers bud

>Both people score 1 point if they both get a hit within 0.2 seconds of eachother

That's only in eppe. In foil, right of way determines who gets awarded the touch. They do this because in a real fight in certain situations you would have to defend if you wanted to live, rather than going for a simultaneous strike where you would both die.

jesus fuck BBC, this empty track is hype as fuck, just listen to the crowd ... DID YOU SEE THAT? THE LIGHTS AT THE BOTTOM? OH MY GOD


actually what the fuck BBC, fix your shit

is br vs austria live? or am i watching a vod?

>show empty strip with people cheering for a couple of seconds
>Coverage Will Resume Shortly
>repeat randomly every few minutes

NBC isn't much better.

Im watching Toldo (bra) vs Pranz (aut)
isnt that live? its bretty gud

Watch blue piste, brazil vs austria.

yeah it's live. It's also tickling my autism that toldo has red side and a green foil, and pranz has the red foil on green side.

I'm not even in the top 50 male fencers in my region and I have beat women who have fenced on the women's national and olympic teams. It's pretty much like any other sport.

Noice

nos heeft zijn streams wel altijd goed op orde.

well

at least winter is coming...

Can't, fucking BBC

I was watching it. Holy fuck, that was intense. I should watch more fencing.

Good match huh, sure wish I could watch it but THE FUCKING BBC ARE JUST SHOWING AN EMPTY TRACK

CBC has the wrong fucking track up too. Are there any countries with competent broadcasting at the fencing?

NBC, but the match is over for now, so we're gonna be stuck waiting till another match starts.

Brazil

Im sure they'll get their shit together since a British guy is on in 20 minutes

Agree, this is some good shit.

Red Piste has been lit up, they're going to be using it next, BBC and CBC have coverage of red piste, nothing on NBC yet.

So it hasnt started yet?

So they refused to show an event, faouring the empty piste where we will soon be fighting?

Thank you BBC

gibe Medal pls?

there introducing peeps now. red piste has some britbong vs tuna

Nope, not yet, they're setting up still presumably.
not just an event, three fights on blue, one on green.

Hopefully they dont pull this shit for the rest of the event, at least its on now

Ok lads. I can't even watch this shitty sport.

I'm laughing too hard at how silly this is.

I'll go back watching women's gymnastics. At least they have real atheltes there kek

Aw yiss

USA
Up 5 - 0 in under 20 seconds on a leaf

reminds me of this

japan giving brazil a good match

some piece of shit kids keeps yelling brazil on stream someone kidnap her already wtf

Korean one is cooler

wait, what? jap is no 2 in the world and brazilian is 66th? more shameful than I first though.

FUCK THIS KID AND HIS SHOUTING

Now people are booing

This roach is getting destroyed

>streaming table tennis just fine on bbc
>fencing and gymnastics start
>quality goes to shit
>dropping every 4-6 seconds
god damn it britain, go take a mid-day nap

At least the fight's okay, the few seconds i've seen of it.

USA-Meinhardt wins 15 - 4 in the first round against CAN-Van Haaster

japan is spooky

>Hues in charge of spectator decorum

Also

>Fucking leaves in charge of not getting shit on by based Meinhardt

Ota what the fuck are you doing

A Fucking Leaf BTFO

>spectator decorum

dang our stream is showing brits, wish we saw that one Leafs got fucking destroyed

Brit wins, get rekt Tunisia

>the next bout will be... uh...
>SOMEWHAT more difficult...

lel. Hopefully russia doesn't shove davis' ass in.

>Britain
More like Pakistan tbqh

Yeah lets keep watching red piste even though the match is over

Thanks BBC

the other matches are over too at least, unlike before.

dishonorable brazil crowd booing

We seriously need somebody to kill that little shit cunt in the crowd constantly shouting Brazil

EAT SHIT ANIME

ota why

HOLY SHIT THIS FUCKING KID SHUT UP

japan chokes again

Low test asian male couldn't handle the pressure.

Yuki Ota was reigning world champ and number 1 seed. Holy shit.

Top half of the bracket is wide open.

I doubt fencers are used to having crowds that provide this strong of a home field cheering advantage.

Bracket for anyone who needs it.

Lefort vs Joppich on yellow should be the best bout of the next leg. That or Pechoux vs Sheng Lei on green.

Just woke up. When does the next match start?

time for russians

looks like its starting soon

Next bouts roll out in 4 minutes. Americans fence at 10 and 10:30 EST

Announcement to tell these monkeys to shut up.

>russia vs russia

terrible match up for them

Should I watch the green piste or the red piste?

BBC green piste cam coming up in about ten minutes.

a lanklet

I'm watching red because thats what I have access to.

red piste in nl and cant switch piste as far as i know.
ruski vs ruski. one ruski has got some sweet shoes

Green, Sheng Lei is defending gold medalist

about time chere scored

cherem is fucking PISTE.
I mean, he is moving like he's super angry, he's swatting like he's using a saber or something, he keeps hitting safin's arm. the fuck.

we are so good

VIVE LA FRANCE

>tfw no one is streaming fencing

This is stupid. Why they didn't split them?

seeded together, just unfortunate luck really. Cherem is throwing this match too.

Punishment for Ukraine