07-14-2005, 03:16 PM
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#1 | | Just Joined
Join Date: Sep 2000
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| Nationals Lost and Found Announcement
If you think you lost something at the Summer Nationals please click on the link below to see if it was found. http://sacfencing.org/ | 
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07-14-2005, 03:36 PM
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#2 | | Senior Member
Join Date: May 2005
Posts: 4,384
| Ya know, I checked your link and didn't see my last DE bout anywhere.
Thanks for a great tourney, by the way. Nice job! And the link to lost items is a splendid idea.
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07-14-2005, 04:15 PM
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#3 | | Senior Member
Join Date: Sep 2000 Location: Charlotte, NC
Posts: 799
| I remember a similiar list from when we did LOC for nationals in 2004. Big difference, we didn't have nearly as much equipment that was marked with a name. Glad to see more people are marking their equipment with at least a last name.
I am curious if these people thought this stuff was 'stolen' instead of them leaving it behind.
Good luck getting this stuff out to those who did leave it behind. | |
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07-14-2005, 04:29 PM
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#4 | | Senior Member
Join Date: May 2003
Posts: 519
| I happened to have lost something that had huge emotional value. I found it while I was there, but was AMAZED to see some of the things that were in the lost and found box. I cannot imagine how people left them behind....Full skirts, shirts, shoes, etc...I guess it speaks to the emotions involved in losing/winning the last DE... | |
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07-14-2005, 04:36 PM
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#5 | | Member
Join Date: Mar 2005 Location: Betelgeuse Five
Posts: 99
| Looks like once again foil wins with the most lost. Maybe, it's just they realize its true worth, leave it, and switch to a real weapon ... Epee! | |
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07-14-2005, 05:12 PM
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#6 | | Curmudgeon-in-Chief
Join Date: Jul 2001 Location: Somewhere in your nightmares!
Posts: 23,769
| Or maybe foilists are just flighty absent-minded flibbertigibbets.  | |
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07-14-2005, 05:43 PM
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#7 | | Senior Member
Join Date: Aug 2003 Location: London
Posts: 1,216
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Originally Posted by hello? I happened to have lost something that had huge emotional value. I found it while I was there, but was AMAZED to see some of the things that were in the lost and found box. I cannot imagine how people left them behind....Full skirts, shirts, shoes, etc...I guess it speaks to the emotions involved in losing/winning the last DE... | Or the hurry to leave when the person you're hitching a ride with was eliminated hours earlier, it's getting late, and their itching to leave ...
I've lost a shirt this way before. Almost left without my shoes once, too. | |
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07-21-2005, 02:05 PM
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#8 | | Member
Join Date: Mar 2005 Location: NYC area
Posts: 49
| A great way to lose a weapon(or two) is when it fails weight or shims and is confiscated by the referee. Then you forget to pick it up afterwards. Or you park your spare weapon and body cord by the side of the strip and leave them there after your last DE. If you travel with a half dozen or more weapons and cords as some do, you may not even notice it's missing until it's too late.  | |
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07-21-2005, 02:10 PM
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#9 | | Fencing Expert
Join Date: Jun 2000 Location: CA area
Posts: 6,262
| As a courtesy to the fencers, I return the weapon to the fencer immediately after the bout. I know, because as a fencer, I do forget that confiscated weapon and often had to run back to pick it up (if it's still there).
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07-21-2005, 04:17 PM
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#10 | | Senior Member
Join Date: Nov 2003 Location: at the lab bench
Posts: 155
| I have a dream.....
that one day, BCs will provide a small wrack of some kind at each strip where fencers in the pool or DE can put their extra weapon and body cord so it's not on the floor getting stepped on by passers-by while you are on the strip.
A PVC pipe "umbrella stand" perhaps with a special black pipe for confiscated weapons (oooooh). It would really clean up around the strips and maybe stuff wouldn't get left behind so much.
Is my OCD showing again?
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07-21-2005, 04:36 PM
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#11 | | Curmudgeon-in-Chief
Join Date: Jul 2001 Location: Somewhere in your nightmares!
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Originally Posted by AllisonT I have a dream.....
that one day, BCs will provide a small wrack of some kind at each strip where fencers in the pool or DE can put their extra weapon and body cord so it's not on the floor getting stepped on by passers-by while you are on the strip.
A PVC pipe "umbrella stand" perhaps with a special black pipe for confiscated weapons (oooooh). It would really clean up around the strips and maybe stuff wouldn't get left behind so much.
Is my OCD showing again? | Yes. 
That scheme would ruin the feng shui of my carefully placed extra stuff. It's an integral part of my fencing strategy and I would protest any such interference with it most vigorously! | |
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