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Prise de Fer

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Prise de Fer (“Taking the Blade”)
“A prise de fer is a movement that takes an opponent’s blade into any one line and holds it there as a preparation to an attack” (3, 60) There are 4 prise de fer actions:
 * 1) Opposition (a.k.a. Glide)
 * 2) Can be executed in all lines. Fencer controls opponent’s blade in one line and does not release until action is complete (5, 129)
 * 3) The glide is “in reality a feint of direct thrust. Glide along your adversary’s blade slyly and without giving alarm” (4, 43)
 * 4) Bind (a.k.a Transfer)
 * 5) “With the blades engaged, the action of carrying the opponent’s blade diagonally across from high to a low line, or vice versa” (1, 180)
 * 6) Croisé (a.k.a. Cross)
 * 7) “A semibind executed by taking the opponent’s blade vertically from the high line to the low line” (5, 51)
 * 8) Is not executed from low to high (1, 183)
 * 9) Also called a “liement” where “the blade is taken from high to low line or vice versa” (3, 60)
 * 10) Envelopment (a.k.a. Circular Transfer)
 * 11) Takes the blade in one line and controls it while in that line and completing a circular motion. Contact remains throughout (5, 50)