Compound attacks

Many times a straight lunge attack will not be enough to score a touch. Your opponent only has to move their blade a short distance to execute a parry while the point of your foil needs to travel a much greater distance before that parry can be made. Because of this compound attacks were created. These are attacks of at least two parts that make it harder for your opponent to parry. The most common compound attack is the feint attack. To perform a feint, extend your point towards one side of your opponent, and then switch your line to the other side in the middle of the lunge. If your feint was convincing, then your opponent will try to parry it as if it were an attack. When you attack to their other side, they will have to work harder to parry it. You can feint many times with one action. Try an advance lunge, starting with your blade towards one line on the advance, then another at the beginning of the lunge and finishing with a different line. If you can do it well, the opponent will have no idea where to parry.