Learning to Fence

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besilarius

October 23, 2017, 06:58:32 AM
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Con

#1
October 23, 2017, 01:10:41 PM
This is very true

I fenced at Olympic level in the 90s when I was at the German club in Bayer and at university in the UK and I have a couple of under 16 and under 21 UK championships under my belt and this scene we tried to reproduce and couldn't do it as flawlessly and effortlessly as they do.

Con

bob48

#2
October 23, 2017, 01:54:28 PM
That is very impressive, Con. :bd:
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'Clip those corners'

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mirth

#3
October 23, 2017, 01:56:30 PM
One time, I peed on an electric fence. It was a shocking experience.
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bob48

#4
October 23, 2017, 01:58:42 PM
I bet that made your eye's light up.
'We few, we happy few, we band of brothers'

'Clip those corners'

Recombobulate the discombobulators!

mirth

#5
October 23, 2017, 01:59:19 PM
I definitely got a charge out of it.
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"you don't look at the mantelpiece when you're poking the fire" - Bawb

"Can't 'un' until you 'pre', son." - Gus

bob48

#6
October 23, 2017, 02:00:29 PM
Did it bring the colour back to your cheeks?
'We few, we happy few, we band of brothers'

'Clip those corners'

Recombobulate the discombobulators!

mirth

#7
October 23, 2017, 02:05:16 PM
Quote from: bob48 on October 23, 2017, 02:00:29 PM
Did it bring the colour back to your cheeks?

all four
"45 minutes of pooping Tribbles being juggled by a drunken Horta would be better than Season 1 of TNG." - SirAndrewD

"you don't look at the mantelpiece when you're poking the fire" - Bawb

"Can't 'un' until you 'pre', son." - Gus

JasonPratt

#8
October 23, 2017, 03:28:16 PM
Quote from: bob48 on October 23, 2017, 01:54:28 PM
That is very impressive, Con. :bd:

Ditto! -- I taught fencing off and on for fifteen years, but was never good enough to earn a C rating. (Not that that's easy to do, for those who don't know. My best friend from high school started learning to fence several years ago and told me how amazed he was that there really were people in the world who could flick flies out of the air with epees, the heaviest, thickest blades. I guessed, based on where he was learning, those were the B class fencers. I was right. A class fencers are exponentially better than that. The second fastest object in the Olympics, after the bullets used in the shooting competitions, are the foil tips.)
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#9
October 23, 2017, 03:46:31 PM
I do, 'chain-length' fencing. It's much prettier and nobody's trying stick you with a sword while you're putting it up.  :clap:
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bob48

#10
October 23, 2017, 03:47:43 PM
...putting what up where?

No. On second thoughts, I'd rather not know.
'We few, we happy few, we band of brothers'

'Clip those corners'

Recombobulate the discombobulators!

Sir Slash

#11
October 23, 2017, 03:54:09 PM
It can be put-up anywhere it will fit. Though it's not always comfortable.
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