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View Poll Results: What is your main weapon? | |
Foil (booyah)
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Epee
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Dabre
|    | 22 | 20.75% | 
08-22-2004, 06:40 AM
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#1 | | Senior Member
Join Date: Aug 2004 Location: St Kilda, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
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| Weapon of Choice?
I just got back from a local competition (bad result on my part) and I noticed a total lack of sabreurs (this is in Australia by the way) so I figured I'd get the numbers. So what is your main weapon.
In case Foil (booyah) as an option didn't clue you on, I'm a foilist.
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08-22-2004, 06:46 AM
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#2 | | Senior Member
Join Date: Jun 2004 Location: Western PA
Posts: 399
| Epee - I fence all 3, but epee is just the most fun. (I'm actually a lot better at foil or sabre, but I like fencing epee for some reason that I can't really explain) | |
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08-22-2004, 08:22 AM
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#3 | | Senior Member
Join Date: Nov 2000 Location: Staying in DC; pining for Texas
Posts: 1,495
| Currently, M4 Cabine, 5.56mm and M9 9mm. Normally, Foil and Epee, however had had to pick up saber out of necessity (no one else to fence!).
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08-22-2004, 08:47 AM
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#4 | | Senior Member
Join Date: Feb 2003 Location: Holland
Posts: 861
| Dabre? what is Dabre? 
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08-22-2004, 09:15 AM
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08-22-2004, 09:47 AM
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#6 | | Feline Groovy
Join Date: Aug 2004 Location: Tidewater VA
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Originally Posted by dunastor Dabre? what is Dabre? | I benced dabre once ... I had a derrible head code ad the dime...... | |
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08-22-2004, 03:55 PM
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#7 | | Senior Member
Join Date: Mar 2003 Location: My happy place!
Posts: 1,514
| hehe... Foil all the way. I fence épée as well, and sometimes sabre, but foil is just my absolute favourite weapon. I love how it can be lightning fast, and how it's the preparation for dueling. I love épée as well, but there's just something about foil that I can't find the right words for. I get such a rush fencing foil and I've never felt quite the same feeling fencing the other weapons, even at National competions. One of the few things that I don't like about foil is how much control the referees have.
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08-22-2004, 08:34 PM
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#8 | | Senior Member
Join Date: May 2000 Location: The Reflecting God
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| .40 Sig Sauer
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08-22-2004, 11:22 PM
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#9 | | Senior Member
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08-22-2004, 11:52 PM
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#10 | | Senior Member
Join Date: Aug 2003 Location: Oklahoma, USA
Posts: 474
| Vulcan Machine Gun.
Like Jesse "The Body" had in Predator.
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08-23-2004, 06:23 AM
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#11 | | Curmudgeon-in-Chief
Join Date: Jul 2001 Location: Somewhere in your nightmares!
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Originally Posted by Sarah Foil ... it's the preparation for dueling. | Eh? ( And a few more characters. ) | |
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08-24-2004, 01:22 AM
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#12 | | Senior Member
Join Date: Jan 2004 Location: Boston, MA
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Originally Posted by Rogue Vulcan Machine Gun.
Like Jesse "The Body" had in Predator. | If I remember correctly, he also died horribly. To each his own, I guess.  | |
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08-24-2004, 04:55 AM
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#13 | | Immortal
Join Date: Jul 2000 Location: Heidelberg, GE
Posts: 5,454
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Originally Posted by telkanuru If I remember correctly, he also died horribly. To each his own, I guess. | It also was a hoax to begin with--a Vulcan has an electrical drive--he'd have to be pulling a pretty substantial generator around behind him for the thing to have actually worked.
Hey, Tofudog. spell my weapon correctly and I'll vote.
MR
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08-24-2004, 06:25 PM
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#14 | | Senior Member
Join Date: Aug 2004 Location: South-central Virginia
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| epee is the best!! | |
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08-25-2004, 07:21 AM
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#15 | | Curmudgeon-in-Chief
Join Date: Jul 2001 Location: Somewhere in your nightmares!
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| Typo. You used a "b" when you should have typed "p"... | |
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08-25-2004, 08:11 AM
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#16 | | Immortal
Join Date: Jul 2000 Location: Heidelberg, GE
Posts: 5,454
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Originally Posted by Inquartata Typo. You used a "b" when you should have typed "p"... | Yes, and he should have capitalized and italicized "Pest" to indicate that he was using a foreign word, German in particular, where "Pest" means.....
Plague....
MR
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08-25-2004, 08:47 AM
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#17 | | Curmudgeon-in-Chief
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| Hmm, I wonder what the Hungarians make of that...  | |
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08-25-2004, 02:20 PM
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#18 | | Senior Member
Join Date: Jan 2003 Location: Philly/Bostonish
Posts: 198
| I prefer a ladle.
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08-25-2004, 03:26 PM
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#19 | | Senior Member
Join Date: Aug 2003
Posts: 4,091
| Garden rake. | |
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08-25-2004, 04:59 PM
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