02-25-2005, 08:51 PM
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#1 | | Just Joined
Join Date: Feb 2005 Location: Texas
Posts: 15
| Pathalogical Need for Sabre
Hello!
I just started fencing in January (it's my PE credit here at college), always wanted to learn. I acutally started off grumbling about having to learn foil (I have wanted to learn sabre the minute I heard a description of it years ago), and that I didn't want to wait until Fencing II to learn sabre, since Fencing II is *never* offered. Well, our instructor decided to issue epees and sabres today! It seems to have been fated, since about 90% of time I hit someone in class with foil, its passe.
So the smallest girl in the class and I (probably the biggest, I'm 5'6'' and weigh something like 175 lbs...used to play hockey) then ran off to beat each other up. My thumb has a nastry bruise and I couldn't be happier. | 
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02-25-2005, 09:57 PM
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#2 | | Scavenger
Join Date: Feb 2001 Location: Pennsylvania
Posts: 4,656
| Yay! Welcome to some wonderful fun.
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02-25-2005, 11:11 PM
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#3 | | Senior Member
Join Date: Jan 2001 Location: Pacoima, ca USA
Posts: 5,942
| Welcome to the Dark Side!!! MMWWHHHAAAAAAA!!!!
Funny....of the 3 studednts I have, 2 are girls....thank you Mariel and Sada!! | |
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02-25-2005, 11:45 PM
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#4 | | Senior Member
Join Date: Jan 2005 Location: Texas
Posts: 324
| Careful...Saber is painfully addictive. Do not operate heavy machinery afterwards. 
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02-26-2005, 03:51 PM
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#5 | | Épéeist Hive Queen
Join Date: Jul 2002 Location: Sweden
Posts: 12,754
| Welcome to the sport, even if you seem to have joined the dark forces of sabre...  
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02-26-2005, 03:53 PM
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#6 | | Curmudgeon-in-Chief
Join Date: Jul 2001 Location: Somewhere in your nightmares!
Posts: 23,475
| Heh, you remind me of myself when I was just starting out, denn'bok! Looking for sabre and forever having those silly foils pushed under my nose...
Welcome aboard, you have chosen wisely! | |
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02-26-2005, 05:36 PM
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#7 | | Senior Member
Join Date: Jan 2004 Location: Oregon, USA
Posts: 1,368
| Welcome to fencing. But watch out, it does become addictive. It will end up taking all your money and time, but you'll have a wonderful time with it and meet great people, like Inq and ZZ above. | |
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02-27-2005, 01:33 PM
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#8 | | Just Joined
Join Date: Feb 2005 Location: Texas
Posts: 15
| thank you!
Thank you, everyone who responded! It's nice to feel welcome!
I'll give a gold star to anyone who can tell me where my screen name comes from, and what it is. | |
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02-27-2005, 03:49 PM
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#9 | | Feline Groovy
Join Date: Aug 2004 Location: Tidewater VA
Posts: 693
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Originally Posted by denn'bok I'll give a gold star to anyone who can tell me where my screen name comes from, and what it is. | I'm sure there are more than a few B5 fans here who will be happy to remind you should you ever suffer amnesia and forget.... | |
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02-27-2005, 04:46 PM
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#10 | | Just Joined
Join Date: Feb 2005 Location: Texas
Posts: 15
| You didn't *exactly* answer the question, but you obviously know the answer.
Gold star to Vorpal Cat. | |
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02-27-2005, 04:59 PM
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#11 | | Just Joined
Join Date: Feb 2005
Posts: 6
| Welcome to the jungle. It is fun. I think foil is a wonderful start to a stategical end. Maybe i am just a glutton for punishment, but that is my call. All and all welcome | |
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02-28-2005, 05:05 PM
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#12 | | Member
Join Date: Feb 2005 Location: Calgary
Posts: 39
| It's a lonely world in Sabre. I even had to fence Epee for a whole year owing to a shortage of sabreurs. Welcome.
BTW, picking up a foil every now and then never hurt anyone. | |
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02-28-2005, 07:55 PM
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#13 | | Curmudgeon-in-Chief
Join Date: Jul 2001 Location: Somewhere in your nightmares!
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Originally Posted by SamIam
BTW, picking up a foil every now and then never hurt anyone. | Just as long as it's only to hand the thing to someone else, no... | |
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02-28-2005, 07:55 PM
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#14 | | Just Joined
Join Date: Feb 2005 Location: Texas
Posts: 15
| Really? I'm pretty sure my picking up a foil has hurt a number of people...and I know that other people picking up a foil has hurt me.
Of course, today one of my rather large male friends hit me *hard* with his sabre a few times...that did hurt worse. | |
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03-01-2005, 07:41 PM
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#15 | | Senior Member
Join Date: Jan 2005 Location: usa
Posts: 241
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Originally Posted by denn'bok Hello!
I just started fencing in January (it's my PE credit here at college), always wanted to learn. I acutally started off grumbling about having to learn foil (I have wanted to learn sabre the minute I heard a description of it years ago), and that I didn't want to wait until Fencing II to learn sabre, since Fencing II is *never* offered. Well, our instructor decided to issue epees and sabres today! It seems to have been fated, since about 90% of time I hit someone in class with foil, its passe.
So the smallest girl in the class and I (probably the biggest, I'm 5'6'' and weigh something like 175 lbs...used to play hockey) then ran off to beat each other up. My thumb has a nastry bruise and I couldn't be happier. | My thumb tends to leap for joy when it has a nasty little bruise. 
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03-05-2005, 10:11 AM
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