09-12-2004, 10:14 AM
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| Compitition day?
Okay.. Its the day of a compitition... What do you do?? What strange habbits do you have before you leave for it......
Paint all you toe nails blue? Not take a shower? umm.. lol.. whatever? I just want to know what people do...  | 
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09-12-2004, 10:45 AM
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Join Date: Jan 2003 Location: Charlottesville VA
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| I usually am up all night before a tourney working on other peoples/club weapons or just unable to sleep because I am a little keyed up, show up to the tourney without having had breakfast or feeling slightly ill because of fast food, warm up a bit with my friends, and proceed to lose my first Pool bought no matter who I am fencing.
After that I get pissed and focused, usually bum a smoke from someone and proceed to make myself slightly dizzy and stinky with it. After that little ritual things tend to get better. Lately I have been playing with getting pass out drunk the night before a tourney so I can get some sleep! 
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09-12-2004, 10:50 AM
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Join Date: Jul 2004 Location: Bonn GERMANY
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| get up at 6:30 and go jogging, then take a long realxing bath. You feel like a whole new person, it's great. Then a good breakfast with enough bread, wurst, cheese, honey and milk. No coffee on those days, I normally just don't need it after going jogging. Then, meet the fellow fencers and drive to the competition with this interesting feeling in my stomach.
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09-12-2004, 01:45 PM
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#4 | | Senior Member
Join Date: Jan 2004 Location: Boston, MA
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| I go out and buy a ton of gatorade. I do not eat at competition, just drink the aforementioned sports drink. I also bring and listen to my CD player on the way to the venue/warming up. | |
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09-12-2004, 02:06 PM
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Join Date: Jun 2003 Location: calgary,ab,canada
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| lets see...get 3 hours sleep (typical for me anyway, so nothing new there). wake up, get a huge breakfast despite the anxious feelings when you're not that hungry. go to the tournament, enter the building with a huge adrenaline rush, warm up, fence the pools, get a first round bye then promptly loose the second round bout because i'm always too excited..  i anticipate this trend to continue this season..hehehehehe | |
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09-12-2004, 02:33 PM
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Join Date: Mar 2004 Location: Bedstuy, Brooklyn
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| I wake up, shower and eat breakfast, enter the venue, run+ stretch, warm up while bouting, and fence... It's kinda boring... but it works...
P.S. I can't forget to mention all the handshaking and schmoozing I inevitably end up doing... 
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09-12-2004, 02:43 PM
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Join Date: Mar 2003 Location: My happy place!
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| Hmmm... tournament day... Well, usually I try to sleep the night before, but it's impossible so eventually I just pretend to sleep. In the morning I 'wake up', take a shower, and get dressed in my workout clothes. Then I try to eat, usually fruit, and grab my big Nalgene bottle and fill it with water. (that's all that I drink..) When I get to the building, I work on my nerves by jogging and doing footwork, then I thoroughly stretch and then I check pools and such. Once I know where I'm going, I start my meditation routines and find my inner terror. (yeah.. the meditating calms my inner body while bringing out the fighter in me and surprisingly gets my muscles ready for the day) After that I just try to find people to hang out with or I find someone to lightly fence to warm up.
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09-12-2004, 06:49 PM
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Join Date: May 2004 Location: U.S. of F-ing A.
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| Let's see. Here's what I do. 1. Before the tournament
(depending on tournament) wake up.
Get dressed.
Get fencing stuff together.
Fill water bottle.
Drive off to tournament.
Forget Lame.
Drive back to get it.
(usually) get a bagel, etc. 2. before the tournament
Get knicks on
Run around (jog, whatever, "run" sounds more masculine  )
Listen to CDs (normally hype-punk ) while streching.
warm up bout.
wait for pools
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wait for pools
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wait for pools
get pools
lose 
win 
(repeat if neccesary)
et voila. there it is, my wonderful day.
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09-12-2004, 08:47 PM
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#9 | | Din Älskling
Join Date: Feb 2004 Location: Somewhere inside your head. Or am I?
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| Interesting, I don't usually get that nervous before a tournament. I have chronic issues with sleep (night owl turned cubicle dweller) though. Usually, I try and stay up late the night before the night before the tournament. That usually puts me in "the mood" to hit the sack on time.
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09-12-2004, 09:10 PM
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| I put on my bandana in the locker room. It symbolizes that I am a different person on the strip then off. Once I put on the bandana, I am focused, goal oriented, and blood thirsty. I never ever wear the bandana outside of fencing.
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09-12-2004, 09:22 PM
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| shouldn't that be capitalized? The Bandana?
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09-12-2004, 09:40 PM
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| The One Bandana... TO RULE THEM ALL!!!!!!
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09-12-2004, 09:42 PM
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| woah, girlie, it's only a bandana... or is it The Bandana!?!?
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09-12-2004, 09:46 PM
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Originally Posted by HillBilly woah, girlie, it's only a bandana... or is it The Bandana!?!? | It is THE bandana. One bandana to rule them all, one bandana to find them, one bandana to bring them all, and in the darkness bind them. In the land of fencers, where the sweat pools lie.
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09-12-2004, 09:47 PM
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09-12-2004, 10:18 PM
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| yeah that totally didn't load. That sucks. Oh well, life goes on...
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09-12-2004, 10:19 PM
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| Did you click on the picture?
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09-12-2004, 10:24 PM
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| yeah I did. >.<
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09-12-2004, 10:35 PM
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| Didn't work for me, either | |
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09-12-2004, 11:14 PM
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| oh bother... hmm. Well, this is what should happen, when you click the picture, it takes you down to the player and uploads (not permanently) the screenplay. Then you are supposed to click 'play' and it should go. I'm sorry if you guys can't see it.. perhaps you don't have flashplayer on your computer?
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