What d'ya say..?

[Alain]

There was a recent post on how people celebrate hits. So, I was wondering... what do you say when you're annoyed during a match, after you've just lost a silly hit?

For example, the franglais in me often just says "merde", but sometimes it's either "oh, ar$e" or "oh, bugger". What about you? (no obscenities, please!)

[Purple Fencer]

Usually something like "aaaAAHHHHHHH!" if I clearly miss...

If I think I've scored, but find I landed off target (in foil), it comes out "Huh-PAAAAAAAAaaaaaaooohh crap!"

[telkanuru]

Coach: "Make fencing action! You not recieve point if you do not make fencing action!"

Me: "Stop doing stupid!"

[Katman]

"Crap! 's what I get."

"OOoo. Good touch."

"Damn it. Good touch."

[Mr Epee]

Not a thing!

The extreme mental/emotional tasking required of an EPEE fencer make negativity a very slippery slope.

Now, when you score a touch... do whatever you need to do.

[AndrewH]

A very frustrated AAAAAAAAAGGHHHHH

[noodle]

i hit my mask with my off hand
never actually works, but i do it anyway

[Evlflynsqurl]

I say nothing. I point behind the president and when he looks I flip the bird to my opponent or grab my crotch.

That would be cool if I actually did that

[mrbiggs]

If I'm EXTREMELY frustrated on a bout that really matters, I will actually scream the F word if I don't think the director can hear it.

Or, more often, I'll just go "ENGH!" which is my best spelling of a frustrated yell. From time to time, a director will think I'm complaining about them, and they'll say "It was ONE LIGHT!" Then I feel bad, and have to apologize. Luckily, that habit is going away...

Usually, I just either keep my cool, or whisper a quiet "damn." Also, if my tempo is wrong, I move my hands from side to side...it's hard to describe the gesture.

Oh, if I do something stupid more than once, I hit myself in the mask with my foil.

[achilleus]

There was a recent post on how people celebrate hits. So, I was wondering... what do you say when you're annoyed during a match, after you've just lost a silly hit?

For example, the franglais in me often just says "merde", but sometimes it's either "oh, ar$e" or "oh, bugger". What about you? (no obscenities, please!)

I was going to tell you all, but then I read your request...

[bwoodward]

... what do you say when you're annoyed during a match, after you've just lost a silly hit?

If I don't know how my opponent scored on me or he does something incredible, I don't usually beat myself up over it. Some people are just better than me (so far) and I appreciate their skill.

If I do something dumb and receive a well-deserved hit, then I say a loud "Duh!"

[WhipLash]

i juz say a quiet "oh darn" to myself. if it's cos of a dumb mistake on my part(which happens often) i usually berate myself with "silly cow!" there is this coach in my club, she likes to go "ahhhhhh" when she attacks and hits off target...as something like an apology. thing is, it isn't loud, but it does sound a trifle.....er....er.....u know....

[KShan5[PrFC]]

I lower my head, roll my eyes, look up, throw out one finger to acknowledge, say touch, laugh some, and get back en guard.

[Welted 24/7]

Depends on the situation or how stupid I was being. Most of the time, I'll just hold up a finger to acknowledge it. If it was a really stupid touch that shouldn't have landed, I'll tap myself in the head a few times with my sabre. If it was really stupid AND an important touch, I'll probably swing angrily at the floor.

The angry swing tends to be my death knell, since that's usually an indicator that I've lost control of my temper, in which case I'm dead meat.

[Zelda]

I tend to let out an "Oh bollocks" occassionally. But generally its an exasperated sigh and a trudge back to the enguard line.

[ThatReallyHurt]

When I get hit and it was a good hit, I'll say "nice hit!" or "nice and clean!" to my opponent. If it was something stupid that I did, like staring at the scorebox or something, I find myself saying either "pay attention" or "guhhhhh".

[Larrison]

If someone has just pulled something on me, and done a good job scoring my response is usually "Nice hit!" followed by "Show me how you did that?" (at least in practice).

A few times I've collapsed in laughter at myself, at having been caught by my opponent in doing something *STUPID*... and I have to say some of my best rememberances of fencing are when my opponent and I were trading off moves like that, with both of us laughing like crazy. Learned a lot from that actually....

But I do something stupid, and don't see something I should have, my usualy response is "arrrggghh!" followed by a muttered "Oh bugger!" while I walk back to my line, mentally going over what I did wrong.

I will say, it's much more educational and fun to be going over something thinking "that was really cool.. how did he do that?" than "why the heck did I do that? "

[VELISARIOS]

If I lose a hit I do not say nothing, as I had said before I prefere the way of silence.

[KD5MDK]

Hold up a finger. I've actually done that when it was one light my touch.

If I did something stupid, I'll hit my mask with the flat of my blade (like a dumbass salute, sorta).

[Boo Boo]

Normally I will yell "oh, come on!" or "stupid girl!" or say "idiot".

Normally accompanied by me hitting my left leg with my left hand.

The odd thing is, if things are going well, I will sometimes pat my left leg with my left hand... (don't know where the leg hitting/patting habit came from... )

Boo