6d • Fitness | Training
Flow Work
Flow work is a form of training where you move the sword seamlessly between postas (guards, in Italian literally positions) and strikes.
This type of work seems performative, but actually it’s a huge training tool that helps us as fencers feel comfortable moving from different forms. It helps us stay flexible, it trains our muscles to repetitively move into and out of stances and attacks, and lastly it punches these movements into our muscle memory.
The last benefit is truly the most important. Retaining that muscle memory is essentially what divides a hobbyist from a competitive fencer. Because when you have microseconds to read a situation and respond, the truth is your brain is slower than your muscle fibers. You need to have movement committed to memory. What’s great is when you stamp some movement into your body one day moves just happen automatically. That, that is when training becomes addictive. This is something you should constantly chase in your training.
Ok back to flow work, there are many different routines and I’ll be creating pdfs and videos for the many flow drills that will be part of subscribed content later on. For now check out these examples:
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