aprilcat 0 #26 January 16, 2007 QuoteQuoteI was just eating some earlier and it dropped down the front of my shirt, know any one who can help me clean up? Too bad it didn't drip into your pants, then i would've cleaned it up. Okay. Now I feel like I'm in the right place. ~~April Camelot II, the Electric Boogaloo! Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
AggieDave 6 #27 January 16, 2007 I took fencing in college. It was a whole lot of fun! You should really enjoy it. Its harder then it looks, but it is a lot of fun.--"When I die, may I be surrounded by scattered chrome and burning gasoline." Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
DownWind 0 #28 January 16, 2007 Have fun Sunshine. I took up fencing while I was at Universisty and loved it. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Stacy 0 #29 January 16, 2007 I fenced Sabre in college. It was the first year that women's sabre was allowed in NCAA competition! They didn't think that women could handle sabre since it was faster paced and whole body as target. I had a blast and got some cool bruises. It is all electronic. At first it feels really funny being clipped to a retractable rope, but you get used to it. I highly recommend doing wall sits and squats as fencing takes a huge wear on your leg muscles since you spend most of the time in a lunge position. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Zenister 0 #30 January 16, 2007 Quote They didn't think that women could handle sabre since it was faster paced and whole body as target.. one of the best Sabre fencers in the South East (at the time, she only fenced in "open" and "three weapon" tournaments what are not around any longer) was a women... ofc she was also a Soccer Goalie who kept notches on her goalposts for every broken bone incident she was involved in, so pain wasnt something that frightened her.. Sabre is/was/can be a very brutal discipline, particularly before the electric scoring system appeared as light touches to the arm (a very common attack in RL and in modern sabre) were not easily spotted by the line judges and so led to harder more deliberate hits that were easier to judge to ensure the point was given in the exchange (stamina is a HUGE factor in sabre, so a successful attack that the judges miss call/dont see can REALLY change the result of a bout) one example.. during a mixed(male and female in the pools together) tournament after a corp a corp (locked guards leading to a point her way when they disengaged) i saw her head snap around as they broke apart and her body language was clearly seething... at the next engagement she double advanced-fleche'd right off the line as he advanced (no longer allowed in Sabre WTF ) and delayed her head cut so the bell of her weapon pretty much punched him in the face (mask) and knocked him flat on his ass.. it LOOKED like an accident (she got a warning anyway, but we all laughed) I was on another piste at the time so missed most of the previous exchanged but caught enough to see him hit the floor.. between rounds i asked her what happened... "what happened? fucker grabbed my ass as i walked off from the last point. Wasnt going to give him the satisfaction of my complaint to the director, so i took my ounce of flesh from his head instead.." ____________________________________ Those who fail to learn from the past are simply Doomed. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
