Me at the a comp. this weekend

[mrbiggs]

Way to call someone who's trying to help you a dickhead.
Retard

I think Pelle thought that MrEpee was mocking him. (The phrase "hot-shot actions.") I'm pretty sure we all know now that it was a misunderstanding.

[dramamine]

Hey Alex, nice job with the second place. Who won the thing and where'd Jeff place? I wanted to come out for the epee but it wasn't worth it to fly and pay $.

hey sam,

other alex here. nic allen won the foil, jeff and I took the two 3rds.

I was the guy in the red sock in the first video, maybe I can shed some light on the action for those who didn't get it. I made a half hearted taking of the blade in octave during my preparation, and it was the only blade contact in the video. I had pulled my hand back and sped up my preparation a bit in an attempt to draw a counter for a riposte but when I saw pelle search and the distance collapsed I just finished. If you look closely you'll see that I hit the attack but my hand position kinda sucked so no light came on. I would hardly call it a "hot shot" action on pelle's part, although truthfully if I was picking from fencing videos to host on the internet I certainly wouldn't have picked this one (not very interesting!)

Bonehead was spot on with his feedback on what you have to work on though. When someone starts pressing you need to take control of the action somehow. Put out feints, change the speed of your retreats, put out a line, make some false parries, anything to make the person pressing you hesitate or finish. What you did in the video was exactly what someone doing a slow attack in absence of blade wants you to do: stop and look for the blade (big search too). When someone starts pushing you you should be thinking : take control.

Not trying to be disputatious but I checked the results page to see if I knew you and the guy who placed 17th in both u-17 and senior (coincidentally the same guy) was Calvin? Might want to double check the results just in case.


EDIT : Just read wflaschka's reply too and he brings up a good point about your en guarde. Try and keep it in 6 unless you have a real purpose not to, especially when retreating. Gives the attack a few less options and you a few more.

[Pelle]

hey sam,

other alex here. nic allen won the foil, jeff and I took the two 3rds.

I was the guy in the red sock in the first video, maybe I can shed some light on the action for those who didn't get it. I made a half hearted taking of the blade in octave during my preparation, and it was the only blade contact in the video. I had pulled my hand back and sped up my preparation a bit in an attempt to draw a counter for a riposte but when I saw pelle search and the distance collapsed I just finished. If you look closely you'll see that I hit the attack but my hand position kinda sucked so no light came on. I would hardly call it a "hot shot" action on pelle's part, although truthfully if I was picking from fencing videos to host on the internet I certainly wouldn't have picked this one (not very interesting!)

Bonehead was spot on with his feedback on what you have to work on though. When someone starts pressing you need to take control of the action somehow. Put out feints, change the speed of your retreats, put out a line, make some false parries, anything to make the person pressing you hesitate or finish. What you did in the video was exactly what someone doing a slow attack in absence of blade wants you to do: stop and look for the blade (big search too). When someone starts pushing you you should be thinking : take control.

Not trying to be disputatious but I checked the results page to see if I knew you and the guy who placed 17th in both u-17 and senior (coincidentally the same guy) was Calvin? Might want to double check the results just in case.


EDIT : Just read wflaschka's reply too and he brings up a good point about your en guarde. Try and keep it in 6 unless you have a real purpose not to, especially when retreating. Gives the attack a few less options and you a few more.

thanks for the tips, yea your slow attack had me and my friend consipiring lol. Hmm i though i was 17th but oh well. I suppose jujie will post the results sooner or later at the club. hah Calvin was 17th?!? i thought he was going to take it.

[Mr Epee]

I think Pelle thought that MrEpee was mocking him. (The phrase "hot-shot actions.") I'm pretty sure we all know now that it was a misunderstanding.

Just for the record, I wasn't mocking him.

I was trying to give the best free advice possible, and not surprisingly Pele got some good feed back by some folks who happened to be at the competition, and his opponent.

Their feedback was not based on just the submitted clips.

[Bonehead]

You thought calvin would take it.... as in the gold medal?

[Pelle]

You thought calvin would take it.... as in the gold medal?

yes, mr epee, i thought you were calling me a hot shot lol (which would be inaccurate) so im sorry.

[samh]

Hey alex (martin) nice job with the 3rd, who did liver-failure zach lose to? by the way other canadian results: International B (epee) in berlin had a bunch of guys doing really well there were 233 people and Charles got 7th. Igor and Enej got cut from pools and Marc got top 128, Tigran nearly beat Marik (hella good austrian) but ended up top 64. out of 15 canadians who went about 9 finished top 64.

[Webster]

and for future reference, I like to refer to that competition as the J-Lo.

no its the jlopen. jujie is now jlo
And to actually make reference to the topic at hand, it looks like you just randomly flailed when Alex attacked you. and he got locked out by the box.

as for the second one... ARM FIRST

Wow, been Awhile since ive been here.

[dramamine]

Hey alex (martin) nice job with the 3rd, who did liver-failure zach lose to? by the way other canadian results: International B (epee) in berlin had a bunch of guys doing really well there were 233 people and Charles got 7th. Igor and Enej got cut from pools and Marc got top 128, Tigran nearly beat Marik (hella good austrian) but ended up top 64. out of 15 canadians who went about 9 finished top 64.

zack lost to nic allen 15-13. he fenced pretty well.

cool that your club sent so many fencers to berlin, nice job everybody!

[Lemberg]

Ha ha well none of these gusy are REALLY from Sam's club I mean we've been bugging him for years now to dawn the glorious Blue and White of Dynamo but nothing took so far We're still trying tho

[Point_Left]

looking at the results I guess its you calvin... but who's point left? Sabre eh?

Yep, sabre. Leftie. (Which narrows it down...) Also, at times I'm not sure who I am, so possibly your guess is as good as mine. Something about getting hit over the mask too many times, I guess.