https://www.vanityfair.com/hollywood/2017/10/princess-bride-30th-anniversary-sword-fight-inigo-montoya-man-in-black-rob-reiner-mandy-patinkin-cary-elwes
Now I have to look up Scaramouche for the sword fight.
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
That is very impressive, Con. :bd:
One time, I peed on an electric fence. It was a shocking experience.
I bet that made your eye's light up.
I definitely got a charge out of it.
Did it bring the colour back to your cheeks?
Quote from: bob48 on October 23, 2017, 02:00:29 PM
Did it bring the colour back to your cheeks?
all four
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.)
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:
...putting what up where?
No. On second thoughts, I'd rather not know.
It can be put-up anywhere it will fit. Though it's not always comfortable.