12-27-2004, 11:31 PM
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#21 | | Just Joined
Join Date: Dec 2004 Location: Sudbury, MA
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| I was sorta hoping Santa would bring me some electric stuff, but it must've slipped his mind...my first competition is going to be this January, and i'm required to have a lame, two wet foils, and two body cords....and I don't have any of it...it turns out to be around 200 bucks worth of stuff, and guess who doesn't have any money left after Christmas shopping?
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12-28-2004, 12:05 AM
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#22 | | Friend of Fencing
Join Date: Sep 2004 Location: Being helpful in Breeland
Posts: 863
| Does giving a lesson on Christmas count?  | |
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12-28-2004, 12:31 AM
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#23 | | Senior Member
Join Date: Mar 2004 Location: MA
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Originally Posted by AllisonT Heck. Why not run a Santa Slaughter tourney? |
Because we have here everyone who would come.
I would want to, but my parents wouldn't let me. | |
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12-28-2004, 05:33 PM
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#24 | | Member
Join Date: Mar 2004 Location: Sweden
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Originally Posted by Zilverzmurfen Ah, glögg!
Lucky you! Our semester is due another 1˝ week or so...
Who won the comp? | Well definitely not me...  | |
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12-25-2005, 12:27 AM
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#25 | | Senior Member
Join Date: Jun 2005 Location: Knoxville, TN or Philadelphia, PA
Posts: 738
| I fenced my father on Christmas day last year (outside, on our deck), sprained my back and spent the next two days lying on the floor in too much pain to move.
I should have been practicing my lunges instead.
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Mais que diable allait-il faire dans cette galere?. . .
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12-25-2005, 12:39 AM
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#26 | | Senior Member
Join Date: Oct 2005 Location: Los Angeles
Posts: 7,054
| What about this year? I haven't fenced in over a week! I'm starting to get withdrawl symptoms.  Spring can't come fast enough! I NEED TO FENCE!!!!! 
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12-25-2005, 01:02 AM
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#27 | | Senior Member
Join Date: Jun 2005 Location: NJ/NYC
Posts: 139
| I spent the day building about 75 bodycords and a dozen or so weapons plus installing the new fridge.....
Does balancing the blades and testing them count??
No huh...
Dang..then nope didn't fence a lick....
Rick Shellhouse
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12-25-2005, 05:24 AM
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#28 | | Moderator
Join Date: Feb 2005 Location: Austin, TX
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| The question is about Christmas Day Rick. Do you mean to say you've already finished Dec 25 2005? | |
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12-25-2005, 06:57 AM
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#29 | | Senior Member
Join Date: Dec 2005 Location: Singapore,
Posts: 478
| T.T wanted to but club was closed... could do dry but my chums were partying
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12-25-2005, 01:59 PM
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#30 | | Immortal
Join Date: Jul 2000 Location: Heidelberg, GE
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| I took a lesson on Christmas Eve, which the Germans consider the first day of Christmas, so I guess my answer is "yes."
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12-25-2005, 02:49 PM
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#31 | | Senior Member
Join Date: Aug 2002 Location: Vancouver, BC
Posts: 294
| Was supposed to have a practice at 10 am this morning.... But overslept... Better luck tommorrow hopefully... Although the facility, which my club was able to secure for the time of the holidays is incredibly small with a very very slippery floor... Still, could've gotten a lesson. My coach is the strong believer in the whole "You must to be train when you opponent sleep and you must be train when you opponent train!!" philosophy - so we ususally have practices during on holiday, provided the gym is available. | |
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12-25-2005, 04:09 PM
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#32 | | Friend of Fencing
Join Date: Sep 2004 Location: Being helpful in Breeland
Posts: 863
| Seeing that once again no one is hosting a tournament this weekend... I resorted to giving a lesson instead. Just like I did in last year's Christmas. Somebody please start hosting Christmas events again! I miss refereeing!
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12-25-2005, 04:26 PM
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#33 | | Senior Member
Join Date: Dec 2005 Location: the Salle(I no longer have a home address)
Posts: 1,137
| Christmas day of what year?
Time warp on! Full steam ahead!
Noticed that this thread starts in 2004 and jumps into 2005.
Nah, no swords up here at all. I'm in Sequoia/Kings Canyon at my wife's house. Six thousand feet in the Sierra Nevada. The closest I've gotten to a blade is dueling chain saws. Hey the body needs a chance to rest, reset, and recuperate. And races of sequoia trees growing is about as restful as one can get. Only fast movements are the cats playing in the christmas wrapping papers.
Monday!! then we start again. | |
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12-25-2005, 04:36 PM
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#34 | | Friend of Fencing
Join Date: Sep 2004 Location: Being helpful in Breeland
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Originally Posted by jjefferies Six thousand feet in the Sierra Nevada. | Awesome.... Back in the Summer Nationals, I rented a car and drove a small group of referees (card carrying members of the "Travelling Circus") to Reno, NV on our day off. Coming from over a decade of NY life, the experience of crossing the Sierra Nevada was quite something. I think we even noticed a hint of snow cap, in the middle of summer! Back at the host hotel, I was also introduced to a beer of the same name... which ended up being my berage of choice for the rest of the week.
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"Presidente of the Jury must consider the artistry and finesse of a foilist's attaque. He must also make it a pointe to deteste the hideousness of unwashed heathen who insists upon marching forwarde with his arm bent in a grotesque manner."
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12-25-2005, 05:05 PM
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#35 | | Senior Member
Join Date: Apr 2000 Location: Chelmsford, MA
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Originally Posted by Mauler Awesome.... Back in the Summer Nationals, I rented a car and drove a small group of referees (card carrying members of the "Travelling Circus") to Reno, NV on our day off. Coming from over a decade of NY life, the experience of crossing the Sierra Nevada was quite something. I think we even noticed a hint of snow cap, in the middle of summer! Back at the host hotel, I was also introduced to a beer of the same name... which ended up being my berage of choice for the rest of the week. | As opposed to Pittsburgh... where we know what the beverage of choice ended up being...
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12-25-2005, 05:50 PM
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#36 | | Friend of Fencing
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"Presidente of the Jury must consider the artistry and finesse of a foilist's attaque. He must also make it a pointe to deteste the hideousness of unwashed heathen who insists upon marching forwarde with his arm bent in a grotesque manner."
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12-25-2005, 10:45 PM
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#37 | | Senior Member
Join Date: Dec 2005 Location: NYC
Posts: 182
| i fenced today for about three hours, only three guys showed up, including me haha
christmas eve i fenced also, the turnout: 5 people
the only people in the entire place were us, Dan Kellner and Jon Tiomkin who weren't even fencing and both left after about 3 min haha | |
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12-26-2005, 12:59 AM
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#38 | | Senior Member
Join Date: Aug 2005 Location: Borings-ville
Posts: 223
| you guys are crazy! fence on Christmas?! I've taken the whole week (from thursday to wednesday) off from fencing. Partly because my club's closed, and partly because my foot's starting to get tendinitis and this is my one chance to rest it, and partly because everyone needs to take a break from everything, even the thing they adore most, every once in a while. Besides, most people when they take breaks, take them for a very long time right before or after competition season..... I don't take them before, because I'm preparing for fencing's ridiculously long competition season (september to july.....does any other sport have a season that long?!) and after competitions is when I fence my best, so I'm not going to take a break and miss all that improvement. and so the cycle continues....
so i'm allowing a teeny break. In theory, i wasn't even allowing myself to think about fencing, and yet here I am, my American Fencing magazine on the floor, re-read for the um-teenth time, and entering stuff on this site....
That's it. I'm fired.
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12-26-2005, 01:38 AM
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#39 | | Question Game Queen
Join Date: Feb 2005 Location: Southern Canadia
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Originally Posted by SwordSoul DDR! the machine that i played at a lot at Wright State University has been moved. I R t3h n00b again...
I've really been thinking of doing a fun "non-fencing" activity with my team... i always thought DDR would be perfect! | How about laser tag? Have everyone hold the gun like a foil and tell them it's to practice point control!  | |
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12-26-2005, 10:47 AM
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#40 | | Senior Member
Join Date: Jun 2005
Posts: 1,326
| Yeah, I got some exercise. A quick recap:
I woke at about midnight to catch a fat burglar trying to sneak into our house via the chimney. When I confronted the red-and-white-clad old man, he snarled, grabbed a fireplace poker and swung at me. (For those of you with a legal bent, this shifted ed his offense from intended burglary to robbery, at least.) I quickly retreated and yanked one of my display rapiers off the wall to defend myself as he swung again. We fought for a long, long five minutes, he with a heavy-handed sabre style and me trying to survive and bruise him into submission with numerous epee-like point impact welts -- the tip of my weapon was blunt, mind you, and I didn't intend to run him through. We knocked over furniture, trampled gift boxes, shouted obscenities and otherwise tried to find any advantage possible over the other. He did surprise me with his speed -- the guy was "rotund" to say the least, and I had assumed he would move slowly; but then I recalled the typical body types of our local sabreurs... I finally caught him with a feint, drawing an over-wide parry which gave me an opening to bring me point up to his chubby cheek just below his eye. He froze. We stood there like that, both gasping for breath for a few moments. I was considering just how much damage I was willing to inflict on this invader to save my own life -- all I would have to do is extend up an inch and he would be blinded in one eye -- when he started crying. He dropped the poker and seemed to collapse from the inside out. Shocked by this development, I stepped back; he slumped to the floor, sobbing over and over, "I'm so sorry." As I surreptitously dialed 911 on the hallway phone, I prompted him to explain why he had invaded my house. "The gifts," he began, wiping his eyes with the back of a red glove. "I was just trying to --" He suddenly clutched at his chest and gasped in pain. "Oh god! My heart!" The next few moments were more frightening for me than the earlier sword fight, watching this sad old man die under my Christmas tree ... | |
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