06-19-2004, 02:43 PM
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#1 | | Just Joined
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| I think I may have a problem...
Just got back from an early morning practice and, since being entirely drenched from sweat, took a shower. So my minds start churning through the lessons I absorbed earlier, and soon thereafter I find myself practicing a disengage or two, in the shower!
Do you think I should should seek medical attention? | 
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06-19-2004, 03:11 PM
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#2 | | Senior Member
Join Date: Jan 2004 Location: Anchorage Alaska
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| Just don't do any footwork in the bathroom............
Otherwise, I'm afraid there's no hope for you...........you're a Fencer 
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06-19-2004, 03:11 PM
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#3 | | Senior Member
Join Date: Mar 2003 Location: Austin, TX
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| Here's the test:
Shower with a romantic partner.
If you're still disengaging-yes, seek help! | |
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06-19-2004, 11:13 PM
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#4 | | Senior Member
Join Date: Jun 2003 Location: calgary,ab,canada
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Originally Posted by cvelusc Just got back from an early morning practice and, since being entirely drenched from sweat, took a shower. So my minds start churning through the lessons I absorbed earlier, and soon thereafter I find myself practicing a disengage or two, in the shower!
Do you think I should should seek medical attention? | yeah, yeah, i do the same thing...and i even manage some footwork too!!  | |
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06-19-2004, 11:26 PM
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#5 | | The Judge
Join Date: Feb 2003
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| no, you're getting into the swing of things
you may find yourself doing footwork down stairs
i know that when i was actively practicing martial arts, i'd for no reason bust out with something just to practice it because it was on my mind. anywhere. at home, at the mall, grocery store, whatever. | |
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06-20-2004, 03:55 AM
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Originally Posted by daeceg Shower with a romantic partner. | This is a very difficult test to set up for the cow.
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06-20-2004, 04:37 AM
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#7 | | Fencing Coach
Join Date: Nov 2003 Location: Amarillo, Texas
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| I find myslef doing bladework and foot work tin the wierdist places. I say it's a good thing, just rememeber, like in fencing watch you rbalance, exp in the shower lol!
Oh and you know you are in trouble when you take a foil to work with you every day... I wonder why I do that  | |
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06-20-2004, 05:21 AM
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Join Date: Feb 1999 Location: Australia - various
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| Test: If when at cocktail party you spend 10 minutes looking at everyones feet and correctly picking current and former fencers by their foot position, you need help (from experience).
Disengaging in shower? Perfectly normal (IMNSHO).
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06-20-2004, 01:21 PM
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| This thread made me feel very happy as I lunge at buttons of elevators, coffee machines etc. It’s nice to know my behaviour is not completely abnormal. | |
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06-20-2004, 02:15 PM
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| My father lunges in his sleep, and my mother has the bruises to prove it!
I find myself thinking "halt off target" or "point left" when I am using a fork to eat  So imo no u dont need any medical help 
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06-20-2004, 04:37 PM
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#11 | | Senior Member
Join Date: Jun 2002 Location: West coast
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| Yeah, at least you people do it when you're conscious.
After practice the other night, I was asleep, and I guess I had a dream of fencing, and my hand shot out and hit my bed post!
Now my knuckles are all bruised! 
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06-20-2004, 04:39 PM
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| ...so long as it's your hand you're disengaging with...
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06-22-2004, 10:48 PM
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#13 | | Senior Member
Join Date: Feb 2004 Location: Alberta, Canada
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| Isn't practicing disengages and parries in the shower normal? I've done it since I started fencing...
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06-23-2004, 01:13 PM
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| I went to a GWAR concert about a month ago and found myself doing footwork to dodge out of the way of wayward moshers. 
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06-24-2004, 01:23 PM
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#15 | | Senior Member
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Originally Posted by cvelusc Just got back from an early morning practice and, since being entirely drenched from sweat, took a shower. So my minds start churning through the lessons I absorbed earlier, and soon thereafter I find myself practicing a disengage or two, in the shower!
Do you think I should should seek medical attention? | Only if you slip on the soap.
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06-26-2004, 12:59 PM
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#16 | | Senior Member
Join Date: Jun 2004 Location: Wisconsin
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| After learning the Italian hand positions and guards a friend of mine could not get them out of his 'muscle memory'. He would practice them unconciously all the time. One day sitting in a board meeting one of his co-workers looks over at him and gives him this quizzical frown and whispers "what are you doing'. My friend looks down at his hand and realizes with embarrasment that his hand had been going through a cycle of guard positions with his pen.
The shower is a much safer place to practice... you might slip and fall, but at least you won't put your social lor professional life in danger.
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06-26-2004, 01:29 PM
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#17 | | Senior Member
Join Date: May 2004 Location: U.S. of F-ing A.
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| yes, I've definitely caused some embarrasing moments by doing footwork at random places. . . You get some weird looks!!!
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07-07-2004, 02:16 AM
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#18 | | Senior Member
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| Not at all, a coach of mine told stories of walking across campus when he was in college and practicing parries. He also mentioned that working on your guard stance while shampooing and conditioning your hair in the shower, or while brushing your teeth was an excellent idea. I practice my guard stance while standing in line or waiting for my food to microwave at work. Welcome to the club.
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07-07-2004, 10:17 AM
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#19 | | Senior Member
Join Date: Jul 2004 Location: Attleboro
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| That means that you're becoming a better fencer. It happend to me when I was fencing 6 times a week. Every moment i was thinking about fencing of everyday. i could be watching a movie and imagining a parry, remembering how much distance i would need to keep with some of my team mates. Its a good thing, trust me. and the oddest place i ever used fencing skills was, i volunteered with a school play to clean up the seats after the production, so me and my friend would use footwork to go up and down the rows of seats cause we're too big to walk normally in the little space.
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07-07-2004, 11:39 AM
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Originally Posted by EpeeConvert Its a good thing, trust me. and the oddest place i ever used fencing skills was, i volunteered with a school play to clean up the seats after the production, so me and my friend would use footwork to go up and down the rows of seats cause we're too big to walk normally in the little space. | Fencers in Service to the Community.
I like it!
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