IOC trying to reduce 3 weapons to only 1?

[Inquartata]

Hey, it depends on how far you want to carry the premise of "real". I daresay that the sclaeger blades they use in SCA rapier are more "real" than epee blades; and the Ren blades and wasters other WMA groups use are more "real" than schlaegers; and...

[Noha]

what is that ???I'm opposing this idea 100%

converting ther three types to only one!what shall we call it then foeper!!!!
Every type has got its own taste and joy- as i played the three- and i think it is not a good idea to make them only one
it won't give a chance for the players- which r skilled in a particlar kind - to prove themselves in the other if they mix them in one

I'm telling you "IT IS A FAITURE IDEA" belive me!

[Sildar]

Good call! From now on when people ask what my weapon is I'll say "foepre" just to see the look on their faces. And how cool would it be to say you're the world's first competitive foepreur.
Odds are I'd probably also be the last, come to think of it. But hey, I'm already among the world's first half-dozen electric shinai fencers thanks to atilla. Hmm, maybe I should contact the IOC with that one...

[its_me_mango]

i hate to say it guys, but that sort of fencing is theatrical fencing, the one we eschew....