12-12-2004, 12:39 PM
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#1 | | Member
Join Date: Dec 2004 Location: Adelaide-Australia
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| Hello people!
Hello. I've just been...wandering around for a bit, and saw no reason for me to draw any attention to myself. But I consider it impolite to not introduce myself, then again it may also be impolite to suggest that it is impolite (Don't you hate it when you second guess yourself?).
I have been fencing for three years now...and I am nowhere near the level I should be  (I still only compete in State competitions-guess that's a local competition). I do come from Australia  , and I am primarily a foil fencer, and really enjoy it. I do enjoy fencing sabre as well, and least of all epee. The reason for not enjoying epee is related to myself not liking the absence of right of way rules. I was fencing my friend in the South Australian Junior U17 Boy's Epee...and I have never lost to him in foil, and I was very unhappy to find the final score 5-3...it would have been resolved with a tie breaker had someone informed him BEFORE the bout that there was no right of way...he began counter-attacking after being informed after the 3rd point when questioning the referee, and I was not too impressed.
I think I've babbled on enough now. Sorry for boring you all  Thankyou very much for your time
Last edited by Anari; 12-12-2004 at 12:46 PM.
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12-12-2004, 02:07 PM
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#2 | | Senior Member
Join Date: Aug 2004 Location: Mass/ct
Posts: 3,226
| Welcome!!!! Yay! Yes.. its not nice to not introduce yourself! Keep talking to us (even if some of the people here are rude wossnames.. some of us.. (like me!!!) are actually very nice) !!! | |
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12-12-2004, 04:43 PM
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#3 | | Curmudgeon-in-Chief
Join Date: Jul 2001 Location: Somewhere in your nightmares!
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| Bah! Welcome from us rude jerks as well! | |
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12-12-2004, 06:14 PM
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#4 | | Senior Member
Join Date: Sep 2004 Location: Wokingham, Berkshire, England
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Originally Posted by Anari I am primarily a foil fencer, and really enjoy it. I do enjoy fencing sabre as well, and least of all epee. | I will be ok in a minute - just need to have a lie down (did he say foil - then sabre - and ONLY then epee?) omg - bring on the St Bernard with the brandy! | |
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12-12-2004, 06:16 PM
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#5 | | Senior Member
Join Date: Dec 2004 Location: Sunny south devon UK
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| well beat me with a jaffle iron..
welcome!!
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12-12-2004, 06:36 PM
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#6 | | Épéeist Hive Queen
Join Date: Jul 2002 Location: Sweden
Posts: 12,772
| *lets loose St. Bernhard dog with keg of brandy*
Oh, and welcome to the forum. May you discover the beauty of épéeism one day!
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12-14-2004, 12:25 AM
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#7 | | Senior Member
Join Date: Mar 2004 Location: MA
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Originally Posted by Inquartata Bah! Welcome from us rude jerks as well! | I thought you were a curmudgeon. 
(But welcome to the board...) | |
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12-14-2004, 01:28 AM
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#8 | | Senior Member
Join Date: Feb 1999 Location: Australia - various
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| YAH another Aussie....I think that makes a round half dozen of us! What state do you fence in? I'm originally from Qld, but am now in Tasmania for work....
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12-14-2004, 01:36 AM
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#9 | | Senior Member
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Originally Posted by mrbiggs I thought you were a curmudgeon. | Well...Inq IS multitalented... | |
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12-14-2004, 02:00 AM
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#10 | | Curmudgeon-in-Chief
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| I can multitask with the best of them. | |
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12-14-2004, 07:21 AM
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#11 | | Member
Join Date: Dec 2004 Location: Adelaide-Australia
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| I fence in South Australia. And yes, epee is my least favourite. It's really annoying, when you parry someone, riposte, get them beautifully in the chest, and they tap your hand and it's a double point. *shakes his head* I never get it, and I don't think I ever will. | |
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12-14-2004, 08:00 AM
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#12 | | Curmudgeon-in-Chief
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| It's all about the bouncing, Anari. | |
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12-14-2004, 01:33 PM
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#13 | | Senior Member
Join Date: Jan 2004 Location: Boston, MA
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| Better then being all about the yelling...  | |
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12-14-2004, 02:20 PM
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Join Date: May 2004 Location: U.S. of F-ing A.
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Originally Posted by Anari I fence in South Australia. And yes, epee is my least favourite. It's really annoying, when you parry someone, riposte, get them beautifully in the chest, and they tap your hand and it's a double point. *shakes his head* I never get it, and I don't think I ever will. | All right Anari here's the rules of Epee.
1. Hit them before they hit you
2. Don't let them hit you
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12-14-2004, 02:43 PM
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#15 | | Épéeist Hive Queen
Join Date: Jul 2002 Location: Sweden
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| 3. Whoever hits first gets the point.
4. Double hits = double points handed out.
Quam difficile?  
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12-15-2004, 03:46 AM
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#16 | | Senior Member
Join Date: Jan 2004 Location: Boston, MA
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| Epee is defined by the saying I have written on the elasic on my mask.
"Hit First" | |
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12-15-2004, 02:05 PM
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#17 | | Senior Member
Join Date: Oct 2004 Location: A land where magical things can happen.
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Originally Posted by Anari I fence in South Australia. And yes, epee is my least favourite. It's really annoying, when you parry someone, riposte, get them beautifully in the chest, and they tap your hand and it's a double point. *shakes his head* I never get it, and I don't think I ever will. | Horray your a foilist ( so am I ). I don't like epee either I can't stand getting hit in the arms and saber just looks painfull, so I am a foilist. | |
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12-15-2004, 03:45 PM
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#18 | | Senior Member
Join Date: May 2004 Location: U.S. of F-ing A.
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| so therefore wusses are foilists? Ah-ha...
And anyway, your bro's an Epeeist, isn't he Pixie?
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