Create a note book, copy and paste to your word program....... Go to www.FencingAcademy-Tampa.org, to see Sport Fencing Instructional Tutorial Flicks. Fencing Distance and Orienting Movements. Orienting movements are responses that help a fencer focus and adjust themselves to receive helpful input. Identifying three types of orienting movements: previewing, tracking and simple. The fencer must predict where he or she will be in relation to environmental features at a future point in time, the performer must "look ahead." Previewing. The orienting movement required whenever performance involves body transport is called previewing. The critical factor in previewing is the rate of the performer's movement. For a particular rate of body transport, the sport fencer must look for a given distance ahead to obtain information about objects in the environment in time to subsequently avoid or contact them as in not running into a fencing opponent when attacking. The problem confronting the performer is much the same as that facing the driver of an automobile at night. In order to avoid hitting an object or person, the driver must be able to stop the vehicle within the fixed distance illuminated by the headlights. If the stopping distance for a given rate of speed exceeds the "previewing" distance, the rate of speed of the automobile must be decreased. On guard. Toes at ninety degrees, torso aiming in between feet toward corner (not twisted). Neck and back lengthen and stay straight <b>...</b>
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