Taking foil groups to the competitive level : a system of progressive drills for teaching beginners and training competitors 9781883616038, 1883616034

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A System of Progressive Drills for Teaching Beginners and Training Competitors

By Vincent Bradford, M.A. with Darrell Williams, M.A.

Taking Foil Groups to the Competitive Level A System of Progressive Drills for Teaching Beginners and Training Competitive Fencers All rights reserved. No part of this manual may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying, recording, or by any informa­ tion storage and retrieval system, without written permission from the publisher, except by a reviewer, who may use brief quotations in a review. Copyright © 1994 by Vincent Bradford

ISBN 1-883616-03-4 Copies may be ordered directly from the publisher for $15.95 plus $3.50 for postage and han­ dling. (Illinois residents add 8.25% for state sales tax.)

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About the Authors Vincent (Vinnie) Bradford is a faculty member in the Kinesiology Department at the University of Texas at Austin, where she has been teaching fencing classes for 9 years. She coaches competitive fencers at the Texas Fencing Academy, where she is the head coach . Vinnie has been a staff member of the USFA Coaches College Program since 1988 and is currently the Assistant Director. She had a long and successful competitive career, both in foil and epee. In 1984 she was the United States National Champion in both women's foil and women's epee. All told, she won four U.S. National Epee Championships. She has been a member of numerous U.S. international fencing teams including the 1979 and 1983 Pan Am Teams and the 1984 Olympic Team in women's foil; and the 1987 Pan Am Team in womens epee. Darrell Williams is Associate Professor of Kinesiology at the University of Texas at Austin, where for 27 years he has taught activity and academic classes and studied the acquisition of skills by persons of normal talent, that is, the physical education approach. In his youth he competed in gymnastics. Darrell competed in fencing in his middle years in the South Texas Division of the USFA, has taught beginning fencing for 25 years at UT Austin, and for many years coached USFA competitors in university and community clubs.

Acknowledgements A very special thanks to my colleague, Darrell Williams, for the lively and valuable dialogue over the last several years, which inspired me to the formal organization of the approach that appears in this manual. Dave Littell also deserves special thanks for his encouragement and assistance in editing. Thanks, too, to Emily Sims for her help with copy editing and layout and Angela Herbert­ Hodges for her cover illustration.