Just wondering

[B.O.T.S.]

hey everyone... I'm just wondering what kind of music gets you in the competitive bouting mood? I like rock music personally.

[Inquartata]

The soundtracks from movies with rousing battle scenes, like "Last of the Mohicans", "Conan the Barbarian", etc., for "inspiration". Bach if I need to settle my nerves.

[Moonitic]

Two soundtracks:

Buffy the Vampire Slayer (the movie) & The Pirate Movie.

If I still competed like I used to, I'd have to say A Knight's Tale..that is one AWESOME soundtrack!

[DamedEscrime]

Meatloaf..Bat Outta Hell.

[Sildar]

At one club I practice with, the coach had people do footwork with progressive trance (a kind of techno) playing for the last couple semesters. A bunch of the students there now have this weird Pavlovian response where whenever they hear trance, they instantly feel like they should be fencing. It's great.

[big poppa]

QUEEN PERIOD!

[latenight]

Always Kid Rock or Beastie Boys

[Catal]

Mortal Kombat- mostly because we found an old stereo in our workout room and that's what was in the CD player. No complaints yet.

[Stryder]

Mortal Kombat
Ice T
Kid Rock

I would love to go to a World Cup and blast Kid Rock's "American Badass"
Wouldn't that piss 'em off?

Geez, from my music selection you would never guess I was raised by the hair bands.
I feel young again!

[edew]

Amazing Grace with the Scottish Bagpipes and
Drums corp, or Siegfried's death and funeral
march from Gotterdammerrung. Die Walkure is
too trite and over used.

Sometimes the theme to The Good, The Bad, and
The Ugly.

The choral fantasie can also work; only 20
minutes or so long, so use it during warm-ups.

However, ever since my CD player was stolen
from the hotel room in Cincinnati during the
'96 Nationals, I never bring electronic gear
with me to competitions. I did bring CDs
with me to Sacramento Summer Nationals, but
only because I drove up there. I never did
get any reparations for the stolen CD player,
and some of the CDs have not been replaced.

[latenight]

Stryder,

American Badass is on every tape I make to take to a tourney. I usually put Cowboy on it too, even though it was overplayed.

I throw alot of Beastie Boys from Hello Nasty on it as well.

[Purple Fencer]

Believe it or not, in addition tot he drum corps tunes I crank int eh car ont he way to a comp, sometimes I'll play something by Weird Al Yankovik...go fig.

Eric,

You just gave me a visual of a really long and intense foil rally -- both guys up and down the strip frantically trading shots and trying to slip a touch in there -- but in slo motion (but no sound from the piste...no grunts or rings of steel) with Barber's "Adagio for Strings" in the background.

Latenight,

Oh yeah...I can just see a really bad celebration of a bout win. You kill your guy, whip off the mask and start yelling "My name is Kiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiidddd...."

[latenight]

Sam,

Yeah, but I scream it in my head!