nemo
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Post by nemo on Jul 15, 2005 17:48:14 GMT -6
I'll post this for the referees just because I heard some discussion on this at a tournament last month. It's a right-of-way issue and I fence epee.
Fencer X holds ground and establishes a point-in-line.
Fencer Y advances to Fencer X, who steps back, but otherwise maintains the torso-shoulder-arm-weapon arrangement of the original point in line.
Fencer Y lunges, landing a touch on fencer X (there is no blade-on-blade contact) and simultaneously impaling himself on fencer X's tip.
Two lights.
Did the retreat invalidate the point-in-line? Whose touch is this?
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Katman
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Post by Katman on Jul 16, 2005 1:48:57 GMT -6
Nope. If fencer X maintained the point in line then it is his touch. You can advance, retreat, lunge and recover with the line as long as you keep it (don't break your arm) or don't have your blade deflected by fencer Y.
Someone correct me if I'm wrong, but I don't think I am.
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Post by DavidSierra on Jul 16, 2005 16:25:47 GMT -6
You are correct. You may retreat, advance, even lunge with a line, and still maintain priority, so long as the line is not deflected by your opponent, or removed from the line in which it is established, unless to derobe an attempted take.
If however, you start moving your line about wildly, even if your arm and elbow maintain steady, and your opponent has not searched for it, then the line looses priority.
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