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EdS! · 03-26-2005, 08:34 PM

I made 3 times just in one championship.

mrbiggs · 03-26-2005, 08:45 PM

I made someone fall on the strip last tournament. I was fencing an A epeeist who is a very good foilist, but who fences foil like epee. In other words, if you get a light on him, you usually get the point. Anywho, I got a parry, and started to riposte. He ran as fast as he could, and I basically ran after him. We ran alllll the way from my side of the strip to the other. At the very last minute, I got the touch, then he fell, with only his toe over the line. I almost didn't get the touch, too, as the director didn't see the light, and another fencer had to back me up.

It was fun to sprint across the strip, though.

Aestro · 03-26-2005, 11:37 PM

I don't make people fall, they make themselves fall. I had 2 happen in one bout against me in pools this past tournament. I also had one fall and a very light knee to my facemask in DE's. I think I've only fallen once since I started, but I have a more classical style.

mrbiggs · 03-26-2005, 11:41 PM

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Originally Posted by Aestro

I don't make people fall, they make themselves fall. I had 2 happen in one bout against me in pools this past tournament. I also had one fall and a very light knee to my facemask in DE's. I think I've only fallen once since I started, but I have a more classical style.

I've made people fall before.

One time, I fleched, and my opponent ducked, so I ran into him. I didn't hit him very hard, but that didn't stop him from doing two backwards summersaults. I got a red card.

noodle · 03-26-2005, 11:43 PM

i don't recall ever making someone fall. its usually i who takes the dive.

i'm known for doing flips and rolls and other random tumbling when i fall on strip. i usually get applause.

mrbiggs · 03-26-2005, 11:44 PM

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Originally Posted by noodle

i don't recall ever making someone fall. its usually i who takes the dive.

i'm known for doing flips and rolls and other random tumbling when i fall on strip. i usually get applause.

I don't know why, but I think that's really funny. Rep point...

MyrddinsPrecint · 03-27-2005, 12:06 AM

i have weak ankles. they give out entirely when they don't like me.

falling on my face during two different bouts in pools was not fun, especially when one was against tim morehouse.

the best is when my coach uses me to demonstrate something, and i lunge, and go down.

KShan5[PrFC] · 03-27-2005, 12:08 AM

I remember one fall in particular, it was at Pomme de Terre, 2 years ago I think, fencing team sabre.

I'm retreating as fast as possible because I just missed an attack adn was too close to my opponent, so I did corss over retreats. My heal caught the ground and I did 2 tumbles backwards, and popped right up out of the roll. The director laughed and said en guarde, then paused and gave me a yellow card and said, "this is stupid, and im sorry, the rule is changing next year, but yellow card, it's a stupid rule". It's the first time a director had ever appologized for giving me a card.

Plus, I've made a few people fall by pulling distance and making them think they could finish by over extending a flunge, pulling again and hitting them on the way down.

noodle · 03-27-2005, 12:14 AM

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Originally Posted by MyrddinsPrecint

i have weak ankles. they give out entirely when they don't like me.

falling on my face during two different bouts in pools was not fun, especially when one was against tim morehouse.

the best is when my coach uses me to demonstrate something, and i lunge, and go down.

use braces or something? or do those not really help?

prototoast · 03-27-2005, 12:20 AM

I don't know how many times I've made my opponent fall, but the best time had to be at a competition earlier this year. I ran him back to the end of the strip, and cut to his head, at the end of the strip, he begins to fall but makes the parry and reposts. I counter-parry and we go back and forth for about 3-4 sequences of counter parries, ending when he has fallen on the ground off the end of the strip. Something about an opponent still fencing while falling backwards gives me much respect--and the knocking him backwards off the end of the strip makes me proud.

KD5MDK · 03-27-2005, 02:30 AM

My friend was fencing foil in a tournament and was being chased down strip by the other guy. They're running, Josh is trying to get away as fast as he can, and catches his heel on the strip (aluminum sections). At this moment his opponent extends, and Josh does a beautiful parry-4 riposte. Light comes on, and then Josh is flying backwards through the air to land on his rear and skid for a bit. In the air, he pumps his fist, and upon reaching a halt signals a parry-riposte with his hands to make sure the Ref saw it. Funniest looking thing I remember in a long time.

Inquartata · 03-27-2005, 12:44 PM

I perform a perfect o-goshi throw all the time when fencing.

( P.S. No, I don't.

)

Alas, it hasn't usually worked out for me when opponents fall. The last time it happened the fellow actually managed to parry and riposte valid during the course of the fall, before his rump went thump. Darned energetic teenagers.

Zilverzmurfen · 03-27-2005, 12:45 PM

Hmm, let's see...none. At least not that I can remember.

Phoenix · 03-27-2005, 03:54 PM

On friday. We were practicing teams for an upcoming tournament and we need another person, so a friend sad he would join in (he's an epeeist). In the middle of the bout, he falls and does this long split. I felt so bad.

Montoya · 03-27-2005, 04:02 PM

Don't know how many times, but the most memorable was at Summer Nationals in pools for Div IA. I attacked, catching my opponent off-guard. I hit her in the chest as she started to retreat, fell backwards, and ended up doing a backwards somersault off the end of the piste.

To her credit, she was laughing when she came up, despite losing the touch. My college roommate (a non-fencer) had shown up in Austin to watch me fence. She was most impressed.

Inquartata · 03-27-2005, 04:11 PM

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Originally Posted by Zilverzmurfen

Hmm, let's see...none. At least not that I can remember.

Well, of course not! You are an epeeist. How likely is it that one sloth will cause another to move so incautiously as to fall down?

VorpalCat · 03-27-2005, 04:23 PM

Maybe one would inadvertently bounce off the edge of a raised strip?

cameroncrazy323 · 03-27-2005, 09:49 PM

At my club we have slick slick concrete floor and people slip quite often. The other night I made a long lunge, feinting high to go low and hit my opponent's foot. I started slipping and caught myself before I made a split and fell funny. I actually got the touch too, even though everyone was laughing, including myself.

angriff · 03-28-2005, 01:38 AM

Only once. We fleched into each other - I wasn't sure what exactly happened, I felt this impact below my chin, then when I regained my senses I saw myself standing up, both arms in the air, my opponent spreadeagled on his back on the piste.. Must've been quite a sight from the spectators' point of view

MyrddinsPrecint · 03-28-2005, 01:35 PM

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Originally Posted by noodle

use braces or something? or do those not really help?

when my ankles are really bad, they don't help.

and the braces i wear often cut off circulation too much to be comfortable when my ankles are, otherwise, fine.

the problem isn't even so much when my ankles hurt so much that i can't walk right when off the strip (read: the end of the day at newenglands) --- because then i know that i have to be careful.

it's the part where my ankles are fine, don't hurt at all, i'm about to cross the street after class.......... and i fall down when i try to step. i sit down, slowly move them around, testing range of motion... dust off my palms, and then keep going. within 5 minutes they dont' hurt anymore....

except for the part where i just fell on my face.

THAT's the real issue.