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View Poll Results: How old were you when you started fencing | |
U-10
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U-12
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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% | 
03-04-2005, 09:17 AM
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#41 | | Senior Member
Join Date: May 2004 Location: Pennsylvania
Posts: 304
| I started at 14, competed for 6 years , took a 12 year break and jumped back in - I'm sorry I took the break; now I have a 16 year old son involved and an eleven year old daughter. I don't wish I'd started sooner, just wish I hadn't had to take that break.
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03-04-2005, 06:33 PM
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#42 | | Senior Member
Join Date: Nov 2001 Location: Orange County, California
Posts: 775
| I'd just turned 47.
"Veteran"--love that word, "veteran"--so much more respectful than "crone".
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03-05-2005, 06:42 AM
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#43 | | Member
Join Date: Jan 2003 Location: Waco, TX
Posts: 44
| 27. and BOY did those warm-ups hurt! Tried kendo in Japan at 29, gonna need to go back to the States and get back in shape 'fore I continue that one.
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03-06-2005, 07:00 AM
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#44 | | Just Joined
Join Date: Mar 2005 Location: England, Solent Swords.
Posts: 2
| hello folks, 14, nearly 15. Almost 16 now.  | |
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03-06-2005, 09:05 AM
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#45 | | Just Joined
Join Date: Mar 2005
Posts: 1
| hi every body I am new to this forum and I am from Saudi Arabia
this question is a good one and I started fencing since I was 12...
Thak U Mr.Epee | |
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03-07-2005, 01:23 AM
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#46 | | Member
Join Date: Nov 2004 Location: Delta Junction, AK
Posts: 66
| I was 21--introduced to it by my best friend in college. After a very long hiatus, I'm trying to get back into it more.
jth
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03-07-2005, 10:48 PM
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#47 | | Just Joined
Join Date: Mar 2005 Location: central ohio
Posts: 11
| Started at the tender age of 37, less than a year ago.
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03-07-2005, 11:08 PM
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#48 | | Senior Member
Join Date: Feb 2005 Location: The Desert
Posts: 499
| I started at 17, which was not at all long ago. I'm kind of lamenting going off to college, having started with a great coach and not at all knowing what (who, rather) I'll encounter if I end up in a far-off university.
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03-08-2005, 11:52 PM
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#49 | | Senior Member
Join Date: Jun 2004 Location: Mechanicsburg, PA
Posts: 150
| I started in December 1997. That was 7 1/2 years ago at 35 - OMG I'm old!!! | |
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03-11-2005, 08:23 PM
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#50 | | Just Joined
Join Date: Mar 2004 Location: sweden
Posts: 11
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Originally Posted by D'Artag-NOT I'd just turned 47. | Got tired watching my son fence 2 1/2 years ago at 46. It is never to late as long as the knees hold. Been travelling around Europe to different Veteran comps. Hoping to enter the European Veteran Championships in May, not to win, but at least to say "been there.." | |
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03-11-2005, 09:29 PM
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#51 | | Senior Member
Join Date: Mar 2005 Location: Alpharetta, GA
Posts: 163
| I started at 15, which is this year. I plan to do a lot of fencing, used to be a lineman in football(american football), but fencing is SOO MUCH more fun. | |
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03-12-2005, 01:03 AM
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#52 | | Just Joined
Join Date: Jan 2004 Location: Mass.
Posts: 24
| I started when I was 7. Now, I'm 15. It doesn't seem like it's been that long.. | |
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03-14-2005, 11:58 AM
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#53 | | Member
Join Date: Sep 2004 Location: Ohio
Posts: 68
| Started when I was 16 and fenced until I was 18 non-competitively (just for fun). Then I took 3 years off when I went to Germany and my freshman year of college. Got back into fencing after that and fenced for 7 years competitively.
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03-21-2005, 11:31 PM
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#54 | | Senior Member
Join Date: Feb 2004 Location: Alberta, Canada
Posts: 363
| But...Life began when I first picked up a sabre! All else was preparation for that moment.
Seriously, I began fencing last year when I came to University. I had wanted to start for AGES, I kept pointing these things out and looking for them. I knew what all three weapons were well before I started. I first picked up an epee (yes, an epee) when my group in grade 12 english was doing the scene in Hamlet where Polonius gets stabbed. "How now, a rat?" I must have driven that girl crazy with my questions about fencing. I'd handled swords earlier (In grade 11, my school put on Camelot). I'd wanted to start fencing since about grade 5 or 6. I seem to recall seeing some Olympic fencing coverage, which triggered "MOM!!!! I want to do THAT!!!!" Sadly, we lived about an hours drive from the nearest club, so it was a no... 
When I started University, I went through that club's fair and found fencing. Havn't looked back since.
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03-22-2005, 10:31 PM
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#55 | | Senior Member
Join Date: Mar 2005 Location: singapore
Posts: 416
| sigh. i started actual lessons at the ripe old age of 20. that would be a month ago? haha. anyway my coach (which happens to be the national team coach) said i'm too old for foil. said i should change to epee. sobz! | |
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03-23-2005, 05:21 PM
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#56 | | Senior Member
Join Date: Jun 2002 Location: 40D 34' 7.046" N by 74D 26' 23.503" W
Posts: 766
| Awww.... a bell shaped curve.....
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03-23-2005, 05:22 PM
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#57 | | Senior Member
Join Date: Jun 2002 Location: 40D 34' 7.046" N by 74D 26' 23.503" W
Posts: 766
| Uh, Seriously, I started fencing in college. After this incredibly gorgeous young lady said... "I like fencing"
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04-19-2005, 06:05 PM
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#58 | | Just Joined
Join Date: May 2004 Location: NYC
Posts: 16
| I started my junior year of college (age 19). I fenced dedicatedly till I graduated, but it's only been in spurts ever since. | |
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04-20-2005, 06:50 AM
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#59 | | Senior Member
Join Date: Dec 2004 Location: Wokingham, United Kingdom
Posts: 581
| We had our latest beginner course start last week, and as usual there's a good mix of people and ages - from 9 years old to old and wrinkly. I'm not exactly ancient myself, but the scary thing is that I've been fencing for nearly 14 years, and when I look at the kiddies in the group it makes me think: I've been fencing for longer than they've been alive  Woah, I need to sit down... | |
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04-20-2005, 01:20 PM
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#60 | | Just Joined
Join Date: Apr 2005
Posts: 9
| I'm 44 and have just had my 3rd epee lesson, wish I had started a long time ago. | |
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