Trademarks hell, Have anything you can't live down?

[GreyGhost]

Trademarks hell, Have anything you can't live down? I keep getting ribbed about my leapfrog attack.... (I jumped up, landed in place, and did a suicide charge.) IT got me the touch from a very suprised fellow newbie. (But my club won't let it drop!)

Hey, Do the leapfrog attack!

What about the rest of you guys?

[D'Artagnan1673]

Ask my fellow club mate, Flying Phil, why his fencing.net name is Flying Phil.

[Inigo Montoya]

Ok Flying Phil, why?

[achilleus]

[quote]Originally posted by GreyGhost:
<strong>Trademarks hell, Have anything you can't live down? I keep getting ribbed about my leapfrog attack.... (I jumped up, landed in place, and did a suicide charge.) IT got me the touch from a very suprised fellow newbie. (But my club won't let it drop!)

Hey, Do the leapfrog attack!

What about the rest of you guys?</strong><hr></blockquote>

I have many things that I can't live down. For some reason, people have named their weaknesses after my heel. Don't know why though.

[ 04-12-2002: Message edited by: achilleus ]</p>

[edew]

Eighteen years and 25 lbs lighter, I used to do something like that leapfrog attack. I'd bounce REALLY high, and then zoom, I'd make a fleche. Works about once or twice per opponent.

[Peach]

Aside from once fencing a DE without my jacket on and not telling anyone (the sabre lame covers the entire jacket area) (yes it hurt), I can't think of anything I can't live down . . . that includes doing a double forward somersault on the strip in a NAC, getting undressed because I thought I hadn't advanced in another NAC (Greenville?) when it turned out I had, running out of my shoes on the strip several times, falling on my rear end ANY number of times including at a World Cup, and everything I've ever done at every NAC I've ever been to.

[Flying Phil]

Did you know that if you try to fleche and drag the toe of you back foot as you cross over that you can do a pretty good impression of "Shamu the Killer Whale" sliding up to the edge of the tank for a fish! (Thanks D'Art...wait till they find out about your feather and hidden desire to wear lace!)

[Jeeves]

Split my knickers on the last touch of a sabre bout. Scored the touch for five with a very extended lunge after a fient to the mask on a short step, derobing and cutting the underside of the weapon arm as he retreated. His yell of distain upon getting tagged covered the ripping sound of my knickers splitting, but I hastily excused myself to go change.
I thought I had gotten away unnoticed, until the following week when a female student made a discreet comment about it to me about the view. Seems she was standing near the end of my strip to observe blade work and apparently was the only one to notice.

OOPS!

[Inquartata]

I was at a NAC once ( lo, these MANY years ago ), where I was warming up and jogging, etc., wearing 5 lb. ankle weights...and then forgot to take them off before my first pool bout. Luckily, no one I knew saw this, and the amusement of strangers, while embarrassing, was at least short-lived...

[veeco]

[quote]Originally posted by Jeeves:
<strong>Split my knickers on the last touch of a sabre bout. Scored the touch for five with a very extended lunge after a fient to the mask on a short step, derobing and cutting the underside of the weapon arm as he retreated. His yell of distain upon getting tagged covered the ripping sound of my knickers splitting, but I hastily excused myself to go change.
I thought I had gotten away unnoticed, until the following week when a female student made a discreet comment about it to me about the view. Seems she was standing near the end of my strip to observe blade work and apparently was the only one to notice.

OOPS!
</strong><hr></blockquote>

Hey, I have that happen to me several times! The first time I thought I could sew the knickers back together alone. It took me quite some time, using just a needle and a thread to get everything together. The next tournament I go to, first touch, I rip them appart together again! The worst about it was that I had no other knickers to use and because I'm left handed I could not find any replacement. So I had to finish my pool like this....

[D'Artagnan1673]

[quote]Originally posted by Flying Phil:
<strong>Did you know that if you try to fleche and drag the toe of you back foot as you cross over that you can do a pretty good impression of "Shamu the Killer Whale" sliding up to the edge of the tank for a fish! (Thanks D'Art...wait till they find out about your feather and hidden desire to wear lace!)</strong><hr></blockquote>


LOL!!!! I thought you had better be the one to tell it!! Just too funny to let down Of course I wasn't even fencing when it happened.

Let's see, oh yes, the feather and lace. I don't see how that is so scary. After all, I like history and literature, and years ago, that was the style.

Back in the thread "Argh!! I've been holding the french ......" One of our other club memebers posted the thing on the feather. It was actually his idea. He's a bird collector and thought my style needed a good feather in the mask to give it more appearance. He brought a couple of nice sized feathers to try. We couldn't get in in my Uhlmann FIE mask, but my 3 weapon Allstar worked well with its rubber protection. However, instead of making me look like a cavalier, I looked like a Power Ranger. A fencer with a Power Ranger helmet is a very, very scary thing.

Speaking of lace, I have a very attractice painting of a woman from the turn of the century in black fencing knickers, black hoes, and a very lacy shirt. Anyone browsing ebay for fencing stuff back around July 26th, 2001? If so, you probably saw that painting. Its a beauty.

[Scaramouche]

No tournament stories, sadly.... there was a little incident on the board several months ago concerning my practice foil's tip which, if you don't remember, praise the sky! And then there's my nickname at the club: Killer. I'm only called that by guys and it's not because I'm a really good fencer, either.

[D'Artagnan1673]

Things on well..... well let's see.

One of our club members called me the nutcracker the first time she saw me fence. I think that was the day I gracefully lept into the air and disenged, hitting on target.

Flying Phil will remind me of the time I imitated Tim Roth's girlish salute before his prize fight duel in Rob Roy.

Let's see, I've only fenced two tournaments. In both of those, during my first DE that day, I've forgot to clip my alligator cord to my lame'. The first time, we didn't find out for several points. The 2nd time, I noticed immediately. The crazy thing was the director was the person I fenced the first time!!!! He probably thinks that I do this on purpose.

Can't say I've ever split my pants or anything like that. I sure do hope that I never do either!

[Boo Boo]

Being called the "blue tornedo" after demolishing two of a three man ex-olympian mens foil team in a "friendly" match last year (okay, the third man beat me).

Being in a training camp, less than a year after I started fencing, fleching at my opponent with my blade too low. It missed his target, went between his legs, I realised and pulled the blade up. The guy spent the next ten minutes curled in a ball on the floor. Despite it all, he decided to date me and we have now been married for almost 5 years (but the story is retold regularly enough :-().

EDEW 25lbs lighter must have been very thin!

Boo

[D'Artagnan1673]

Okay, I guess I'd better post this humiliating incident before Flying Phil really gets me back.

Last week in the quarterfinals, both of my legs cramped up. My form was there, but I am way out of shape. I had to rub some cream on my legs to get the cramps to go away. The only way I could do that was to unzip my lame' and reach down my knickers. I also did this in front of a full length mirror!!!! I don't want to know what anyone was thinking who wasn't close enough to know that I was having severe leg cramps!

[big poppa]

Hey Boo Boo that story reminds me of the movie where Ice Cube gets hit by a woman and says "Damn girl I like You" . ON the groin shot, my wife gave me a really nasty one when we were dating. Pain and LOve