> >>"The French rules dated 1972 still state that
> >>"touches must be made cleanly and plainly with
> >>the point, the fore-edge and the back-edge to
> >>be counted ...". The 1978 version has the word
> >>"plat" (flat) added. The change must therefore
> >>have been introduced between 1972 and 1977.
> >>During these years the first electric sabre
> >>prototypes were presented which seems to suggest
> >>that the change was introduced to suit the electric
> >>sabre.
> >>Mike Bunke
Everyone's entitled to an opinion, but putting it in print don't make it true. Electric saber
wasn't really used popularly until about 1990, and at first, there were a number of
different systems discussed, including one that used a 3-layered blade with inulated layers
on the flats of the blade. In that way, strikes with the flats wouldn't count. Trouble was
that it didn't work. In the end, the descision was to go with the system that used ordinary
saber fencing blades in dabers equipped with "capteurs" that measured the force of the
blow to be sure that they were deliberate hits & not just passing brushes. The capteur has
since been dropped. There was no serious electric saber in the 70s, and it had no effect
on the rules.
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>the sabre incident between Smart and Touya (blade
run through webbing in Touya's sword/gloved hand and exiting out the palm,
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/5757241/) in the Olympics doesn't give me the
greatest confidence that the electrical sport has been made any safer. (Patrick)
Well, no one said that the olympic sport was any safer than the non-electric, except that
mabe they wear more layers. It's always important to remember that blades are potentially
very dangerous broken & sometimes even unbroken, and the better your form & skill the
greater ability you have to do unintentional damage. Play Safe!
Cheers,
Jeff
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