It cannot be healthy. I didn't even do this in college. Perhaps its because the club is closed for the holidays and I have had too many days off from work...but I am seriously obsessed with my upcoming first tourney as a returning fencer. I have been checking askFred daily to see who has preregistered and looking to see how old, skilled, etc they are (that's google for you!). I have been watching all foil bouts on youtube and fencingchannel. In part it is helping my restart jitters, but at the same ...
I have no idea why, but for the past couple days I've been thinking of a particular WF bout I reffed quite a long time ago. Idk, maybe 6 months. I remember it really well, and the more I think about it, the weirder of a bout it is. Alot of contested beat attacks vs. parry ripostes. Neither fencer was really doing it very correctly. The attacker (left handed) would start in a low line, start to come up to the target, but then have a decision point of either beating the blade if it ...
Last night at fencing practice I was introduced to an interesting game. It’s called “3-5-9”. The rules are that two fencers do a regular 15-touche bout. The only catch is that the first person that reaches one of the score thresholds identified in the name of the game (“3” points, “5” points, or “9” points) that person has to give up one element of their game as selected by their opponent. For example, if I make a touché to bring the score to 3-1 in my favor, my opponent could say, “Ok, now ...
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