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Sparks a flyin' !!! Scenario: I'm directing a bout between two newbies (less than 5 months training)using dry foils and they are going at it hammer and tongs. Just as they beat each other's blades, I swear I saw a spark fly off one of the foils! I've been in and directed a lot of bouts over the years and I've never seen or even heard of this before. This ever happened to you? I thought it was weird but maybe it's common. “General Feraud has made occasional attempts to kill me. That does not give him the right to claim my acquaintance.”
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Happens in sabre all the time - I love the smell of ozone inside my mask when someone has whacked me hard enough to send off sparks. Haven't heard of it happening in foil, though--they must have been whacking away!
--Delia
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Originally posted by Peach:
<STRONG>Happens in sabre all the time - I love the smell of ozone inside my mask when someone has whacked me hard enough to send off sparks. Haven't heard of it happening in foil, though--they must have been whacking away!
--Delia</STRONG>
I smell smoke when I take a head shot in sabre. I have yet to see the fabled spark, tho.
In foil?  They must've though they were broadswords or somthing!
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The only way that I could see sparks fly with foil is if one foil blade gave a really hard hit to the hilt or coquille, enough to scrape away some metal, creating a spark.
[ 08-17-2001: Message edited by: TheScribe ] TheScibe- after all, the pen is mightier than the sword!
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Funny, this came up last night at the bar after fencing. My coach was telling me about the Hero's Tournament in London Ontario and everytime him and a friend of his are really intense when they fence each other there that sparks fly from the beats, takes and parries. In epee...
The sabre definitly, I've seen that lots of times, and a girl in our club got a spark in her eye from a hit to her mask at a tournament.
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Originally posted by Peach:
<STRONG>...I love the smell of ozone inside my mask ...
--Delia</STRONG>
Ozone stinks doesn't it?
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The name ozone comes from the Greek ozein, for "to smell". But I like the smell. It brings back memories of my cousin's Lionel train sets when I was a kid--it's formed when a spark passes through oxygen.
--Delia
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Just noticed this post after being on vacation, and had to comment.
S2000 saber blades seem to spark a whole lot. When my friend Sean and I fence saber in the park until it gets dark, we notice a LOT of sparks seem to fly off our blades. Of course, they're easier to see when it gets toward dusk, and the neighborhood kids seem to notice the sparks from 2 blocks away. Any one else notice this?
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I've had sparks fly in Foil once. My oponent did a beat attack with some force, I guess the angle was just right to get the sparks flying. Now, if they are constantly producing sparks, then I would be a bit concerned that someone might get hurt. Joshua
-If what your doing isn't working....do something else!-
-Coach Daniel Faller WKU Fencers
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I'm showing them what to do about the Big Beat when it comes so hopefully they will defuse each other naturally. Kids....
Doug, Ever use a busted open cyalume stick on your saber blades for night effects?
Just a thought. “General Feraud has made occasional attempts to kill me. That does not give him the right to claim my acquaintance.”
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I had no idea that you can get O3 out of sabre blades.
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By the way, we were both using Triplette Dinamo blades, and it got to the point where almost every other blade beat produced a spark.
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