There are a lot of instances where both fencers make an attacking action at the same time and are looking for priority.
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Category: Refereeing Tutorials
Posts that teach refereeing conventions
Foil Priority – For Newbies
So you’ve never seen fencing before, you’ve just found out about foil fencing, and you want to know how it’s scored.
Foil Point in Line in Practice with Examples
Having just watched the most recent foil bouts in the 2020 Olympics, I have reason to believe that some of the examples in this article are now out of date. I think that the basic explanations and reasoning are still accurate, but the timings seem to be a lot tighter now against slow attacks, making it more possible to place a line. I will need to review this with some FIE referees and provide an update.
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Foil priority rules of thumb with examples
In general
Priority is a comparison of both fencers.
Just because someone has a bent arm, or is not super direct doesn’t mean that the other fencer automatically gets priority.