Good practice evening, fleche ideas

Had a very fun and "on" evening at fencing practice tonight. Now that it's September more and more people who took the summer off are turning up. I've long had some bad habits with fleching, but Russ showed me a method that I used tonight with a good deal of success:

Half advance or lunge, bring front foot back but keep weight on back foot; if distance and so on is good, fleche. Having weight on back foot seems to help me fleche more *from* the back foot.

Another idea from David (via Leon). From a normal stance swing front foot back so its just in front of the back foot, and with the knee well bent/cocked; from there launch into a fleche off the front foot.

Also, some success using Sam's tactic of doing a slow, not very threatening feint, then another slightly deeper but still slow, to give opponent time to consider what to do if you attack in that line for real, then a very fast feint in the same line but broken off, in order to draw out opponent's planned response--parry? counterattack? etc. Then fleche into that same line with whatever disengage or whatever ought to work against opponent's now-revealed defense.

And here's a fencing video I was watching the other day. It's in German and repeats itself here and there. I'm not sure what it's supposed to be about, other than a bunch of clips of epee practice, some slow motion. All to a techno soundtrack. Ran across it while looking for a video showing a 7-6 bind (septime-sixte). At 30 seconds into this one the student practicing seems to do a couple 7-6 binds. Anyway, I'm not sure why but watching it makes me want to fence.