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Old 04-04-2005, 09:00 PM   #1
Matthias Syndikus
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Shoes and fencing left-handed

Hello all,
Does anyone have first hand experience with using Adidas': Adistar Fencing
LO shoes? If so, are they good and worth the going market price of 145
Euro? Any other recommendations? I am a left-handed fencer and want to
know if there any marked difference between or competitive advantage using
shoes built purposely for left (or right-handed) fencers or not.
Thanks
Matthias


 
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Old 04-24-2005, 09:14 PM   #2
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Originally Posted by Matthias Syndikus
Hello all,
Does anyone have first hand experience with using Adidas': Adistar Fencing
LO shoes? If so, are they good and worth the going market price of 145
Euro? Any other recommendations? I am a left-handed fencer and want to
know if there any marked difference between or competitive advantage using
shoes built purposely for left (or right-handed) fencers or not.
Thanks
Matthias
I have found that even if you get a high-end shoe, that the volume of training that you do, and the composition of the strips you work on that can degrade that shoe, can make that shoe worse for competition - i.e. having a bad shoe that gives out on you during an important competition.

I used to get high-end shoes, but now, I get lower end shoes and change them more frequently -- I find this more cost effective and health saving in the long run.
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Old 05-10-2005, 03:00 AM   #3
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Re: Shoes and fencing left-handed


"nahouw" <nahouw.1o15q1@timelimit.fencing101.com> wrote in message
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> I have found that even if you get a high-end shoe, that the volume of
> training that you do, and the composition of the strips you work on
> that can degrade that shoe, can make that shoe worse for competition -
> i.e. having a bad shoe that gives out on you during an important
> competition.
>
> I used to get high-end shoes, but now, I get lower end shoes and change
> them more frequently -- I find this more cost effective and health
> saving in the long run.


I have a pair of Adidas D'Artignans and they're fine. Allegedly they're
designed for metallic pistes rather than non-metallic pistes but I haven't
noticed a difference.


 
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Old 05-12-2005, 03:00 AM   #4
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Re: Shoes and fencing left-handed

Martin J. Green wrote:
> I have a pair of Adidas D'Artignans and they're fine. Allegedly they're
> designed for metallic pistes rather than non-metallic pistes but I haven't
> noticed a difference.


So how are those magnetic soles?

 
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Old 05-15-2005, 03:00 PM   #5
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"Joseph Kormann" <ajkormann@verizon.net> wrote in message
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> So how are those magnetic soles?


magnetic soles? What planet are you on?


 
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Old 05-15-2005, 09:00 PM   #6
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Re: Shoes and fencing left-handed

Martin J. Green wrote:
> "Joseph Kormann" <ajkormann@verizon.net> wrote in message
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>>So how are those magnetic soles?

>
>
> magnetic soles? What planet are you on?


I'm on Earth, small blue planet just off center of a small spiral solar
system sometimes called Mutter's Spiral.

Figured you had special magnetically soled shoes since they were made
for metallic pistes.

-Joseph

 
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Old 05-15-2005, 09:39 PM   #7
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Old 05-17-2005, 09:00 PM   #8
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>>> So how are those magnetic soles?

>> magnetic soles? What planet are you on?


> I'm on Earth, small blue planet just off center of a small spiral solar
> system sometimes called Mutter's Spiral.
>
> Figured you had special magnetically soled shoes since they were made
> for metallic pistes.


Here on planet earth most metalic fencing strips are made of copper,
stainless steel, or aluminum. All rather NON-magnetic metals.

Anyway, those shoes have nothing on my fencing sandals with little
wings on the ankles :-P

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Old 05-17-2005, 09:00 PM   #9
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"Aaron Caba" <acaba2@yahoo.com> wrote in message
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> Anyway, those shoes have nothing on my fencing sandals with little
> wings on the ankles :-P


I once fenced in a pair of suede mocassins, since I'd forgotten my fencing
shoes.

Oddly I fenced rather better than usual :P


 
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Old 06-05-2005, 09:00 PM   #10
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On Tue, 17 May 2005 15:22:55 -0400, Aaron Caba <acaba2@yahoo.com>
wrote:

>>>> So how are those magnetic soles?

>
>>> magnetic soles? What planet are you on?


Ask not for whom the woosh-bird chirps...

>> I'm on Earth, small blue planet just off center of a small spiral solar
>> system sometimes called Mutter's Spiral.
>>
>> Figured you had special magnetically soled shoes since they were made
>> for metallic pistes.

>
>Here on planet earth most metalic fencing strips are made of copper,
>stainless steel, or aluminum. All rather NON-magnetic metals.


Two out of three ain't bad.

Kevin
 
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