Today’s epic hit comes from the much-anticipated deathmatch between two team mates, World #1 and World #2, Gu Bongil and Kim Junghwan. The winning point from Gu in the 2014 Asian Games final is one of the most beautiful fencing actions I’ve ever seen. It’s the last word on attack-on-prep in the 4m. Here it … More Battle Royale: Gu (KOR) v Kim (KOR)
After a month of searching, we’ve finally got (unofficial) video from Asian Games! Here’s the first semifinal, between Kim Junghwan and Lam Hin Chung. Crowd reaction is intense. Good stuff. Thanks to David Sim and Lee KyuJin for providing the video!
Men’s sabre teams starts today with the round of 32 from 2pm Kazan/8pm AEST. Here’s the big table: We’ll be watching France v Georgia (go France!) and Iran v Egypt. Live results are available here. The round of 16 onwards is tomorrow from 1pm Kazan/7pm Sydney. Given the way the individual fencers were performing on … More 2014 World Championships: Men’s sabre teams start tonight
First off, congratulations to Nikolay Kovalev of Russia for landing his first individual World Championship title. The 28 year old right-hander is known for his very dynamic fencing style and has long been my favourite sabreur on the Russian team, and it’s great to see the him return from a long spell of bad luck … More 2014 men’s sabre world champs: individual wrap-up
Facebook turned up something interesting this morning, via the guys at the fantastic Swordsport Productions page: It comes from the guys over at The Fencing Coach. They’ve used the Elo rating system, which was developed for chess but is now used across a range of sports to track player performance and predict match results. It’ll … More Using Elo to pick winners