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04-20-2008, 06:33 PM
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#181 | | Senior Member
Join Date: Apr 2008 Location: SGU Theatre.
Posts: 128
| I actually learned of this site form Sword Hobbit, who just happens to be my little sister. When I started fencing this semester, I decided registering on here prob. wouldn't be a bad idea...
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05-21-2008, 09:34 AM
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#182 | | Just Joined
Join Date: May 2008 Location: Australia
Posts: 10
| I googled 'fencing discussion site' or something similar. I actually hadn't thought of finding a fencing forum before till I saw something on another random fencing website that made me think of trying to find one. So I googled it and this site was one of the top results! | |
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07-11-2008, 11:41 AM
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#183 | | Senior Member
Join Date: Jul 2008 Location: Climbing out of my nightmare
Posts: 679
| How did I find you? Let me count the ways.
Ok, well, 1 -
I was on fencing.net looking for some club/tournament info (nothing new there) and clicked on the forum link I have been lurking off and on, but now that I have more regular access to "my own" computer, I decided to make a name for myself... so to speak.
Thanks for being here! | |
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07-11-2008, 03:47 PM
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#184 | | Senior Member
Join Date: May 2008 Location: Missouri (home)/Pennsylvania (college)
Posts: 172
| I found fencing.net through a link on my club's website!
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07-29-2008, 09:24 AM
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#185 | | Just Joined
Join Date: Jul 2008
Posts: 2
| I googled "fencing discussion" or something like that.
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08-05-2008, 08:47 PM
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#186 | | Just Joined
Join Date: Aug 2008 Location: Massachusetts
Posts: 7
| I just googled "introduction to fencing" and surfed here. | |
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08-08-2008, 06:50 PM
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#187 | | Just Joined
Join Date: Aug 2008 Location: San Jose, California
Posts: 21
| Hi!
I found this site via Google while looking for schedules when Olympic fencing would be broadcast, online or on broadcast TV. (I assume that the former is much more likely.) I was hoping that there might be some local match-watching parties/events (San Jose, Calif.), but I haven't found any yet.
My 13-year-old son has just started learning fencing (foil) at the California Fencing Academy in San Jose. I'm very impressed with its very nice and knowledgeable teachers, delightful students and pleasant & helpful parents.
I like to play golf and table tennis, and am a fan of watching/learning about many sporting activities. My son is OK at those sports, but has now entered the "anti-parent" stage, so he's not interested in anything that we like. He's very quick and in enjoying fencing so far. (It also is in sync with his interest in such Internet games as Runescape and Tribal Wars; Grrr.) He thinks he'd prefer saber, though I worry that his very slight stature might be greater disadvantage with that weapon than with the lighter and (seemingly) more precision-based foil. We'll see. He's getting a large dose of all the weapons at a week-long camp at CFA next week.
I was glad to see an Olympics prediction contest on this forum, and just submitted my (quite uneducated) guesses.
I look forward to using this forum to ask questions as they come up in my son's education and development (if any) as a fencer. :-) Thanks in advance for helping us. | |
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08-09-2008, 02:36 AM
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#188 | | Just Joined
Join Date: Aug 2008 Location: San Diego
Posts: 3
| This spring, I decided to take up the sword again after a nearly twenty year absence. I chose the Cabrillo Academy of the Sword here in San Diego. Rather than risk Ebay, I decided to buy new. I went searching for equipment prices and dealers on Google. Fencing.net's store came up and then I noticed the forums while checking reviews on equipment.
I fence Foil and Epee, but have yet to renew tournament competition. Epee is my favored weapon. My daughter attended a couple of classes with me when I did not have babysitting, and has now started taking Foil as well.
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08-11-2008, 09:42 AM
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#189 | | Just Joined
Join Date: Aug 2008 Location: Huntington, NY/ Medford, MA
Posts: 23
| i basically just googled fencing and fencing.net was one of the things that came up.
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08-12-2008, 05:53 PM
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#190 | | Just Joined
Join Date: Aug 2008
Posts: 3
| I googled on "fencing forums" and fencing.net showed up in the first two positions. | |
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08-12-2008, 07:25 PM
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#191 | | Member
Join Date: Feb 2008 Location: Swarthmore
Posts: 98
| Perhaps the time has come to add the "Saw fencing on TV/live and thought it was really cool" option. | |
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08-12-2008, 08:29 PM
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#192 | | Senior Member
Join Date: Dec 2007 Location: Houston, but South
Posts: 2,206
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Originally Posted by Catseye  Perhaps the time has come to add the "Saw fencing on TV/live and thought it was really cool" option. | But how do they find it once they see it? Most people don't guess at urls until they get one that works.
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08-17-2008, 03:55 PM
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08-20-2008, 03:48 AM
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#194 | | Senior Member
Join Date: Aug 2008
Posts: 193
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08-26-2008, 02:47 PM
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#195 | | Just Joined
Join Date: Aug 2008 Location: Oneonta, NY
Posts: 4
| I don't know his username, but I found fencing.net through one of our epeeists. Everytime an odd question came up (what are the dimensions for making a rewiring jig, will gaffers tape pull up a gym floor, best matieral to make an acetone pipe out of) he would always check fencing.net for me and get an answer. He moved away, and now I must go to the source myself. | |
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08-26-2008, 11:06 PM
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#196 | | Member
Join Date: Aug 2008 Location: Wherever you're not
Posts: 98
| I found this website when I saw my 9 year old brother private messaging some chick on here | |
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08-31-2008, 07:30 AM
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#197 | | Just Joined
Join Date: Aug 2008 Location: Australia
Posts: 6
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Originally Posted by Craig For those that found the site via google - was it from typing in "fencing" and getting to the front page of the site, or were you looking for something more specific and came in to a thread/topic on the forums or in the news sections?
I get a ton lot of traffic from Google, but it comes in all over the place. | I think I typed in "fencing forum" in Google. | |
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#198 | | Member
Join Date: Sep 2008
Posts: 34
| I heard about from my friend who is an active user on this site. | |
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