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View Poll Results: How old were you when you started fencing | |
U-10
|     | 42 | 6.51% | |
U-12
|    | 57 | 8.84% | |
U-14
|    | 93 | 14.42% | |
Cadet
|    | 83 | 12.87% | |
Junior
|    | 143 | 22.17% | |
20-30
|    | 121 | 18.76% | |
30-40
| | 58 | 8.99% | |
Veteran
| | 48 | 7.44% | 
03-01-2005, 10:56 PM
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#21 | | Senior Member
Join Date: Nov 2004
Posts: 1,216
| Started at 15, now 16. 
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03-01-2005, 11:06 PM
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#22 | | Senior Member
Join Date: Jan 2005 Location: south of the (metro) tracks
Posts: 1,457
| I'm not sure what age group, but I started when I was 15, and I've done it for a little more than a semester.
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03-01-2005, 11:12 PM
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#23 | | Member
Join Date: Aug 2004 Location: North Myrtle Beach, SC, USA
Posts: 86
| Fenced one year in graduate school, age about 22. Didn't fence again until a few months ago at age 52. I think I'm better now than I was then. Definitely having more fun now.
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03-01-2005, 11:15 PM
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#24 | | Boom!
Join Date: Oct 2004 Location: Canada
Posts: 5,925
| 29. I wish I'd started earlier... 
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03-02-2005, 12:01 AM
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#25 | | Senior Member
Join Date: Jan 2005 Location: Texas
Posts: 324
| I started when I was at the tail end of 40. I'll be 42 soon but wish I was able to start this addiction sooner. 
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03-02-2005, 12:37 AM
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#26 | | Senior Member
Join Date: Jun 2003
Posts: 279
| Before masks and electronic scoring equipment
Like most of us ... I started in the back yard with sticks (U10). We had no masks or electric scoring equipment. Scoring was much more accurate ... a good touch was always followed by a loud ouch! None of that wimpy beeping used today. We broke a lot of weapons though, sure could have used some maraging blades.
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03-02-2005, 06:03 AM
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#27 | | Member
Join Date: May 2004
Posts: 83
| Started when I was 19, wish I started earlier... | |
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03-02-2005, 11:23 AM
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#28 | | Fencing Coach
Join Date: Nov 2003 Location: Amarillo, Texas
Posts: 1,307
| I started as a Junior when I started colege. WIsh I had the ability to start younger like age 8... | |
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03-02-2005, 11:44 AM
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#29 | | Senior Member
Join Date: Sep 2002
Posts: 659
| My son started when he was around 8. My daughter when she was around 11. I started in my mid 40's. | |
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03-02-2005, 12:51 PM
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#30 | | Senior Member
Join Date: Nov 2002 Location: Mary's Land
Posts: 192
| I started when I was 12. Given that I mainly teach college-age students now, it's funny that I've been fencing since the oldest of them was in first grade. In a couple years, I'll be able to sling the "I've been doing this since before you were born" line.
Hmm. Suddenly I feel very old at age 28...then again, it's not the years. It's the mileage! 
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03-02-2005, 01:12 PM
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#31 | | the dark one
Join Date: Jun 2004 Location: MA/NH line
Posts: 3,825
| I'd just turned 39 when I started. I swore I wouldn't wait till I was 40 to do it - I'd already put it off a few decades too many. To think what I'd missed out on all those years... *sigh* But my kids will start early! | |
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03-02-2005, 01:20 PM
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#32 | | Senior Member
Join Date: Dec 2004 Location: Sunny south devon UK
Posts: 235
| The later half of 24...
two years on and enjoying more every time!
Would enjoy it more if my back foot would go where i told it to! 
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03-03-2005, 12:13 AM
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#33 | | Senior Member
Join Date: Nov 2004 Location: Atlanta
Posts: 209
| Fenced off and on one winter, adult classes, virtually zero bouting, in my early 30's. Started again mid-fifties. More pain now, but also more brain. | |
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03-03-2005, 01:21 PM
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#34 | | Senior Member
Join Date: Apr 2003 Location: Tucson, AZ USA
Posts: 1,207
| I actually took about 3 classes when I was 25 but then they changed my shift at work and I had to quit going. I didn't start again until I was 49 which is how I answered the poll.
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03-03-2005, 02:57 PM
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#35 | | Fencing Expert
Join Date: Apr 2000 Location: Pennsauken, NJ
Posts: 9,085
| 18, as a freshman in college.
-B :)
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03-03-2005, 05:07 PM
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#36 | | Member
Join Date: May 2004 Location: Santa Clarita, CA, USA
Posts: 39
| I started at 49, several years ago; I, too, wish there had been an avenue for me when I was younger... funny that Kendo was easier to find than western fencing (a side benefit of the dissolution of the USSR, I guess). Now, competition is not an issue, just having fun while getting my exercise. I truly enjoy seeing/fencing the teenagers and enjoy, vicariously, their triumphs and tribulations... they can be soooo intense in their competiveness 
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03-04-2005, 06:31 AM
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#37 | | Immortal
Join Date: Jul 2000 Location: Heidelberg, GE
Posts: 5,488
| 19, as a junior in college. Fenced six years, then played tournament squash for 14 years. Started fencing again 8 years ago.
MR
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03-04-2005, 06:51 AM
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#38 | | Senior Member
Join Date: Jan 2005 Location: UK
Posts: 282
| When I was 14, I think...nearly fifteen...
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03-04-2005, 07:53 AM
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#39 | | Senior Member
Join Date: Dec 2004 Location: GREECE/Piraeus
Posts: 1,310
| I was 29 when I start to fence.
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03-04-2005, 08:55 AM
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#40 | | Senior Member
Join Date: Apr 2003 Location: Ask.
Posts: 500
| Either ten or eleven, can't remember.
24 now.
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