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Your non sword arm... foil/epee Where does it stay? By your side? Up in the so called classical way?
Mine is usually up, but lately its been getting tiring (fencing too much) so I keep it by my side. Doesn't effect much, as i don't lunge all that much - and when I do, i can still chuck it backwards for balance(my arm). I am he
The bornless one
The fallen angel watching you..
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I keep it in between classical and modern, depending on how tense I am and how much I'm moving. If a little dreaming is dangerous, the cure for it is not to dream less but to dream more, to dream all the time~Proust
~The purpose of the ninja is to flip out and kill people.
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Twenty years ago, I learned to keep it up (classic) but that always felt awkward. I usually held it behind me like a sabrist. These days, more often than not, it is in a more relaxed position trailing out from my hip. Victurus te saluto. Corrigia tua est solutus.
I, soon to be victorious, salute you. Your shoelace is untied.
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I hold mine back near my hip as if it's in a sling. The solution to your problem is to fence another weapon.
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I started with the clasical way but now I mixed the clasical with the modern. The purpose of tactic is to conquer the enemy with proper war movements and actions.
-Tactics of Emperor Leon 6th the Wise
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In my case my arm hangs down my side. It's normally quite loose. The idea is to reduce the amount of tension in the shoulders - it's something that my current coach has done wonders to reduce.
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Mine follows the back edge of the uniform down my leg, approximately. The only way to atone for being occasionally a little over-dressed is by being always absolutely over-educated. -Oscar Wilde
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I hold my arm up, in the classical manner, and I find that it greatly reduces the tension in my sword arm, funnily enough. But then I always was odd...
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I have it at my side relaxed and parallel to the floor, with wrist kind of limp (looks a bit gay to non-fencers). I like my wrist to float around as I move, it's like a wind-sock which trails my movement. (I think (hope) it looks like Golobitski's or Omnes' unarmed hand...) FOR THE LOVE OF GOD WON'T YOU BUY MY TACTICAL WHEEL!!!????
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I normally keep my arm up in the classical style, but lately towards the end of practice I have been keeping my non-weapon arm down. I want to be remembered when I'm dead. I want books written about me. I want songs sung about me. And then, hundreds of years from now, I want episodes of my life to be played out weekly at half past nine by some great heroic actor of the age.
~Blackadder
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 Originally Posted by Alain Normally like this (I'm on the right)...  Epee in shorts? OUCH! John Matus
Anchorage Fencing Club
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I guess in my pants is wrong, I will try to stop that.
Actually, I find if I let my arm hang down it seems to unconsciously move up and forward. I am often reminded of this with a saber blade to my middle index knuckle. 
Holding it up keeps me conscious of it position.
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Originally Posted by Aziz I guess in my pants is wrong, I will try to stop that. 
IN your PANTS?!?!
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Originally Posted by Aziz I guess in my pants is wrong, I will try to stop that. At least the piste is not the right place... 
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I keep mine up like alains.... Alain, our footwork looks astonsishingly similar  "I've seen things you people wouldn't believe. And from this side only! The flight of a half-man, half-bird. Dinosaurs nuzzling their young in pastures where strip malls should be. Cookies on dowels. All those moment, lost in time. Gone, like eggs off a hooker's stomach. Time to die" -Phil Ken Sebben
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IN your PANTS?!?! Bad habits... (ashamed, embarrassed, crying now)
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I had my mom sew a strap onto the back of my jacket so that I could hold on with a death grip. My coach said that if I don't stop touching myself during bouts with it, he'll cut it off.
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Originally Posted by guy_smiley I had my mom sew a strap onto the back of my jacket so that I could hold on with a death grip. My coach said that if I don't stop touching myself during bouts with it, he'll cut it off. Way to much information...
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Originally Posted by guy_smiley I had my mom sew a strap onto the back of my jacket so that I could hold on with a death grip. My coach said that if I don't stop touching myself during bouts with it, he'll cut it off. He'll cut off your hand or your...
ummm...
never mind! One test is worth a thousand opinions.
I ain't as good as I once was, but I'm as good once as I ever was. - Toby Keith
Living life without taking the occasional risk is like lemon-pepper chicken without the lemon-peper. It's just chicken.
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