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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, 01:52 PM
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#1 | | Senior Member
Join Date: Oct 2004 Location: Jyväskylä
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| What age did you start fencing?
Should be simple enough...
When did you start fencing?
Vote by your age group! 
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03-01-2005, 03:43 PM
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#2 | | Senior Member
Join Date: Oct 2003
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| I guess 12 actually. I was 12 and 1/2 when I first took up the sport. Its amazing how far I've come in that short a time, though it feels like it has taken forever.
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03-01-2005, 03:44 PM
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#3 | | Senior Member
Join Date: Dec 2004 Location: Wokingham, United Kingdom
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| Started when I was 9... unfortunately, I'm pretty much the same height now as I was then  | |
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03-01-2005, 03:51 PM
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#4 | | Senior Member
Join Date: Apr 2001 Location: Houston/Galveston, Texas, USA
Posts: 488
| I was 39, practically a veteran before I started!
Seriously, if you weren't in college, fencing was pretty hard to find in Texas back before everyone and their cousin had a web site. Fencing in the yellow pages ran more to picket, chain-link and (as we say down here) bob-wahr varieties.
Happily for me, the local club ran notices in the local suburban weekly in my area and I finally looked at the right issue. I showed up for the next class session (Mergs was my instructor). He taught me that fencing was fun. I met my wife there and I've never looked back.
I am still more a recreational fencer than anything else, but I'd miss it terribly if I had to give up those 2-3 nights per week. | |
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03-01-2005, 03:51 PM
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#5 | | Senior Member
Join Date: Oct 2003 Location: South Carolina über Alles
Posts: 2,608
| I started last year at the tender age of 18.
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03-01-2005, 03:59 PM
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#6 | | Senior Member
Join Date: Oct 2004 Location: Jyväskylä
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| Wow!
42 votes in two hours!!!
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03-01-2005, 04:43 PM
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#7 | | Boom!
Join Date: Oct 2004 Location: Canada
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| Well, that's what happens when it's a neat poll that's easy to answer.
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03-01-2005, 05:01 PM
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#8 | | Senior Member
Join Date: Dec 2004 Location: Hamilton, ON
Posts: 219
| 16. I don't know if that's cadet or junior. | |
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03-01-2005, 05:07 PM
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#9 | | Épéeist Hive Queen
Join Date: Jul 2002 Location: Sweden
Posts: 12,754
| I was 21. I so hope I had taken it up at an earlier age as I love it!
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03-01-2005, 05:28 PM
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#10 | | Senior Member
Join Date: Sep 2004
Posts: 634
| 13 when I started, although my only real training has come in the past year and a half. Makes me feel lousy for all the wasted opportunities...I should be a lot better for fencing for six years.
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03-01-2005, 05:42 PM
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#11 | | Epee fencing addict
Join Date: Jan 2005 Location: Glenwood, ny
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| Quote: |
Originally Posted by Mr Epee Should be simple enough... | You would think so, but...
I took my first class when I was in my 20's. I played with it off and on (more off than on) all of my life, but it was not until I was well into the "veteran" age group that I started getting really serious about it.
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03-01-2005, 05:50 PM
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#12 | | Senior Member
Join Date: Jul 2004 Location: SoCal
Posts: 1,117
| Started post-college, post-grad school, at around age 25 or so. Was not offered in high school or earlier in my area, and was not offered in college even as a club sport. And when I finally started fencing, it was through an evening program with the local parks and recreation group, which led me to finding a local club, and etc. | |
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03-01-2005, 06:04 PM
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03-01-2005, 06:32 PM
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Join Date: Feb 2005 Location: Calgary
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| Started when I was at Uni, about 20 I think. Needed some sport to keep me sane and to be involved in a social group outside my faculty. Of all the sports I tried that first year it's the only one I seriously pursued, mostly at the varsity and invitational levels. When I left school I sort of let it slide as work and other interests took over. 
Chronic injuries at the time helped in the decision. It's good to be back. | |
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03-01-2005, 07:19 PM
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#15 | | Senior Member
Join Date: Jan 2005 Location: usa
Posts: 241
| 6 and a half 
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03-01-2005, 08:18 PM
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#16 | | Curmudgeon-in-Chief
Join Date: Jul 2001 Location: Somewhere in your nightmares!
Posts: 23,475
| The first six categories overlap! Poll is flawed, FLAWED I tell you! | |
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03-01-2005, 08:31 PM
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#17 | | Senior Member
Join Date: Oct 2003 Location: CC
Posts: 2,631
| Is 14 cadet or youth?
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03-01-2005, 09:17 PM
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#18 | | Senior Member
Join Date: Jan 2005 Location: usa
Posts: 241
| Both- there is a Y-14 event though.
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03-01-2005, 10:02 PM
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#19 | | Senior Member
Join Date: Jun 2003 Location: calgary,ab,canada
Posts: 2,415
| 24...its been 2 years exactly. | |
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03-01-2005, 10:52 PM
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#20 | | Senior Member
Join Date: Aug 2004
Posts: 436
| Wow, I started at 24 too. Except for me, it's been only nearly a year. | |
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