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    Senior Member Array ReverseLunge's Avatar
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    The time has come for epee

    I do all 3 weapons but mostly foil and epee. I'm starting to feel foil has become too sissy and I think it's finally time to do the full switch to epee. I'm getting sick of all those girly men crying and whinning about every point. I just want to slap a pair of breasts on them. What do you think?

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    I think people who pretend to be Vietnam veterans shouldn't be allowed to call anyone else 'girly men'.
    There are no damn chickens in my room!
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    I'm a foilist who also does some epee, i find that foil takes more strategy whlist epee is more "lure then counter" due to no right of way. I greatly prefer foil though epee helps with my speed a bit. Also, no need to use females as an insult, things like that give fencers that air of arrogance reputation, with which you seem to wear quite well. I advise you to watch the way you word things, your post seems to want to spark a flame war between foilists and yourself for your amusement. It would have been better for you to ask people to list pros and cons of both weapons, instead you use insults to rile up people. I really do not want to see another rant, counter rant war begin. SO, to save the mods and everyone else the trouble of having to deal with your flaming tacics, please, stop this "game" of yours that you seem so eager to play. It does no good for our sport and makes you seem even worse in the forum-public's eyes than you do now. I recommend you reword the post or repost.

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    While I do understand you wanting to go to epee, dont go insulting the foilists.
    "I've seen things you people wouldn't believe. And from this side only! The flight of a half-man, half-bird. Dinosaurs nuzzling their young in pastures where strip malls should be. Cookies on dowels. All those moment, lost in time. Gone, like eggs off a hooker's stomach. Time to die" -Phil Ken Sebben

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    Quote Originally Posted by Taomagicdragon
    I recommend you reword the post or repost.
    Wouldnt that be Riposte?
    "I've seen things you people wouldn't believe. And from this side only! The flight of a half-man, half-bird. Dinosaurs nuzzling their young in pastures where strip malls should be. Cookies on dowels. All those moment, lost in time. Gone, like eggs off a hooker's stomach. Time to die" -Phil Ken Sebben

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    Quote Originally Posted by D+F+P=Hadouken!
    Wouldnt that be Riposte?
    Oh god, that pun was hilariously funny, yet it made me gag so much.

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    Inq, I believe you have an apprentice.
    There are no damn chickens in my room!
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    Quote Originally Posted by ReverseLunge
    I just want to slap a pair of breasts on them.

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    Wow. Up to 9 posts and still no flame war.

    Maybe RL has lost his touch. Usually he'd be up to his armpits in angry posts by now.

    I personally couldn't choose between foil and epee. I like them both equally. As long as I'm fencing I don't care which of the three weapons I'm using.
    Fleche!! Fleche for fantasy.

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    I enjoy foil more, although, I fence both weapons. Foil is just so much more fun to fence than epee (in my eyes), you really have to thoroughly think through what you're doing. You try to plan while avoid falling into your opponent's plan/trap. RL, I think that epee would be better for you. Epee is more of a hit first thing, which is fun, and it suits you. I don't see foil as a sissy weapon.
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    Amazing, but I thought Epee was the one where you had to think everything through and outsmart the other guy, Foil was the one where you hoped your blade was whippy enough and your arm was straighter than the other fellow's, and Sabre was the one where you ran at each other and screamed and hoped the ref knew what happened because you sure didn't but boy was it fun.

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    hehe, it's all a matter of preference
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    Sorry forgot to put the "I'm kidding" smiley there. They all have "plan without falling into your opponent's trap" in spades, of course.

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    yep, definitely
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    Quote Originally Posted by Sarah
    I enjoy foil more, although, I fence both weapons. Foil is just so much more fun to fence than epee (in my eyes), you really have to thoroughly think through what you're doing. You try to plan while avoid falling into your opponent's plan/trap. RL, I think that epee would be better for you. Epee is more of a hit first thing, which is fun, and it suits you. I don't see foil as a sissy weapon.
    I'm an A rated foilist and a C rated epeeist. I hate it when the noobs give advice.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Taomagicdragon
    no need to use females as an insult, things like that give fencers that air of arrogance reputation, with which you seem to wear quite well. I advise you to watch the way you word things, your post seems to want to spark a flame war between foilists and yourself for your amusement.
    If only people would realize that they cannot in fact be insulted by someone about whose opinion they don't care, it would rob the troll of all its fun. Then perhaps it would go back to fencingsucks....

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    Quote Originally Posted by D+F+P=Hadouken!
    Wouldnt that be Riposte?
    Why, I oughtta----!

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    Quote Originally Posted by Soldier
    Inq, I believe you have an apprentice.
    Hey, are you comparing me to Donald Trump?!

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    Or the Emperor?
    With infinite complacency men went to and fro over this globe about their little affairs, serene in their assurance of their empire over matter

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    Quote Originally Posted by ReverseLunge
    I'm an A rated foilist and a C rated epeeist. I hate it when the noobs give advice.

    Your a nam/korea veteran as well.
    "I've seen things you people wouldn't believe. And from this side only! The flight of a half-man, half-bird. Dinosaurs nuzzling their young in pastures where strip malls should be. Cookies on dowels. All those moment, lost in time. Gone, like eggs off a hooker's stomach. Time to die" -Phil Ken Sebben

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