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 Originally Posted by ThaProfessor12 well not all obviously , theres a guy in ou division in his fifties that earned his A last year... but it seems that alot of them do counter attack in interesting ways... good technique or not It's a question of conservation of energy mostly. Why run down the strip after someone when they're perfectly willing to come to you? Why expend a lot of energy getting someone in range when they're perfectly willing to come into your's and then give you an opening to exploit. Most vet fencers can attack just as well as they ever could....they just can't do it as often. Not to recognize the power of the Titanium Spork is to be in denial.
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Or they prefer to attack all the time, like one of my coaches.
Peach fenced her, I think, in the last vet's challenge.
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Originally Posted by FoilyGeezer Most vet fencers can attack just as well as they ever could....they just can't do it as often. That could also describe many other things we do.
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Originally Posted by mackillian Or they prefer to attack all the time, like one of my coaches.
Peach fenced her, I think, in the last vet's challenge. That could describe a number of my opponents in the vets  Who is it? "Arm yourself, Watson, there is an evil hand afoot ahead." -- Dennis Pierce, 2010 Bulwer-Lytton contest, detective fiction category runner-up.
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Originally Posted by mackillian Or they prefer to attack all the time, like one of my coaches.
Peach fenced her, I think, in the last vet's challenge. If I remember correctly where you said that you fence (you're in NH, right?) I think I know who you mean. If I'm guessing right, I'd say she's just as good at drawing my stupid attacks as she is at attacking -- talk about your wily vets.
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Yvonne Walton. She's a lot of fun to fence. 
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Yes she is! That was a fun bout, even if she had just finished winning the foil and was just playing sabre. "Arm yourself, Watson, there is an evil hand afoot ahead." -- Dennis Pierce, 2010 Bulwer-Lytton contest, detective fiction category runner-up.
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Ya those wily old coots know a thing or two about fencing gotta love it. If they're too old to attack then they work on their defensive and some of them have the best parries I've seen. Could be their precise classical upbringing- parrying straight from blade, onto target not some of the swirly flourishy things you can get these days. "The pen may be mightier than the sword - except for in a duel."
"I had to get up in the morning at 10 o'clock at night 1/2 an hour before i had to go to bed, drink a cup of sulfuric acid, work 29 hours a day down down mill unpaid and have to pay for permission to come to work and when we came home our dad and our mum would kill us and dance around on our grave singing hallelujah!"
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I try to learn more of their defensive than their offense because their 'classical' training can be quite impenetrable. Heaven is where the police are British, the chefs Italian, the mechanics are German, the lovers are French, and its all organized by the Swiss.
Hell is where the police are German, the chefs are British, the mechanics are French, the lovers are Swiss, and it's all organized by the Italians.
"I spent a lot of money on booze, birds and fast cars. The rest I just squandered" George Best
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