08-02-2005, 02:20 PM
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#21 | | Senior Member
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Never take seriously a fencer who drives up to the venue in a car with a license plate on the front that says, "Curses! Foiled Again" or "I'd Rather be Fencing" or "NGARD"  | 
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08-02-2005, 02:40 PM
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#22 | | Senior Member
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| This may be an unjustfied stereotype, but if so, I have certainly never seen evidence to the contrary.
If you walk around the room with your weapon stuck through the side D-ring of your jacket, you are a newbie (probably a pretentious one who has seen The Princess Bride* far too many times).
* Great movie, but not one to emulate on the strip. | |
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08-02-2005, 02:47 PM
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#23 | | Senior Member
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| What about backwards hats everybody?
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08-02-2005, 02:54 PM
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#24 | | Curmudgeon-in-Chief
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| What, you mean ones with the bill facing forward?
I wear sweatbands, but the bandanna rolled up to make one has this advantage: it's harder to lose. Those sweatbands make socks look like amateurs when it comes to "escaping". Invariably I take three to practice with me and there's one left in my bag by the time I get home...
Warning! Obligatory sour opinion ahead!
Colored socks ( or anything else ) are just ridiculous. It's a fencing UNIFORM. Look up the meaning of the word. Nowhere will you find the phrase "opportunity to express your personality or show 'flair'". You are not Bill Murray in "Stripes", and fencing is not a comedy.  | |
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08-02-2005, 02:59 PM
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#25 | | Senior Member
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Originally Posted by Inquartata and fencing is not a comedy. | some fencing is...
perhaps a comedy of errors?
No, you are right... more of a tragedy really...
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08-02-2005, 05:12 PM
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#26 | | Senior Member
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Originally Posted by Inquartata Colored socks ( or anything else ) are just ridiculous. It's a fencing UNIFORM. Look up the meaning of the word. Nowhere will you find the phrase "opportunity to express your personality or show 'flair'". You are not Bill Murray in "Stripes", and fencing is not a comedy. | Going to dictionary.com, I find differently.
Ignoring the use of "uniform" as an adjective, and going to the noun, I find a couple of definitions, both of which use the word "distinctive." I particularly like this one:
"clothing of distinctive design worn by members of a particular group as a means of identification"
Clearly, if a fencing uniform does not distinguish a given fencer from another of a different club/team/country, it is not doing its job. Distinctive colours, perhaps on the socks (or elsewhere) that do this actually make it MORE of a uniform. | |
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08-02-2005, 05:24 PM
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#27 | | Senior Member
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| I think a braided and beaded beard is another good indicator, as is an italian or french(in foil) or a Ziv grip...
(Ben and Bran, I dislike your grips a great deal, but am still fond you of two)
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08-02-2005, 05:29 PM
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#28 | | Senior Member
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| the whole concept that something can signify someone as a scrub is just trash..... the only thing that will assure such is how they fence.
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08-02-2005, 05:37 PM
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#29 | | Fencing Expert
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Originally Posted by D+F+P=Hadouken! the whole concept that something can signify someone as a scrub is just trash..... the only thing that will assure such is how they fence. | I seem to remember photos of you with a bandana posted a while back...
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08-02-2005, 05:41 PM
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#30 | | Member
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Originally Posted by D+F+P=Hadouken! the whole concept that something can signify someone as a scrub is just trash..... the only thing that will assure such is how they fence. | What differentiates the amazing fencers from the scrubs is their focus: have you ever seen jan viviani or seth kelsey wearing "cool" multi-colored ridiculous attire? That's because they're paying attention to their FENCING not to their APPEARANCE.
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08-02-2005, 06:15 PM
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#31 | | Curmudgeon-in-Chief
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Originally Posted by kalivor "clothing of distinctive design worn by members of a particular group as a means of identification"
| Distinctive, but the same for all members of the group. In this case, the group comprises fencers. | |
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08-02-2005, 06:24 PM
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#32 | | Senior Member
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Originally Posted by Be_Like_Water What differentiates the amazing fencers from the scrubs is their focus: have you ever seen jan viviani or seth kelsey wearing "cool" multi-colored ridiculous attire? That's because they're paying attention to their FENCING not to their APPEARANCE. | Are you suggesting that good fencers are incapable of dressing themselves? Can they not pick out fancy clothes?
Really, when you're buying socks or putting them on, you're not really paying attention to your fencing, no matter what colour the socks happen to be. You're paying attention to ... socks.
And I've seen the Italians with blue legs and arms. There's more than a few Olympic medallists in that bunch. | |
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08-02-2005, 06:28 PM
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#33 | | Curmudgeon-in-Chief
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Originally Posted by kalivor I've seen the Italians with blue legs and arms. | Woad?
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08-02-2005, 07:00 PM
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#34 | | Senior Member
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Originally Posted by millsisland I've always assumed a bandana is covering a bald or balding head. | Funny you should say that, bu the two people (men) I know that wear bandanas are loosing their hair...
For the Brits amongst us, what on earth is a "Rube"???
Boo
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08-02-2005, 07:02 PM
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08-02-2005, 07:03 PM
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| It means a Bumpkin or any other variety of uneducated country folk...
The origin is a diminutive of Ruben...
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08-02-2005, 07:10 PM
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#37 | | Senior Member
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Originally Posted by Inquartata Distinctive, but the same for all members of the group. In this case, the group comprises fencers. | But not all Fencers. football players don't all look the same nor anyother sport evn in team sports if a players face is covered they paint and decorate their mask.
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08-02-2005, 07:12 PM
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#38 | | Senior Member
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| I wear a bandana because i have quite a lot of hair all the way down my back and i kept sticking the darn velcro fastener on my mask to the back of my head and removing a bunch of hair whenever i had to rip the mask off at the end of the bout. and it soaks up sweat. and the hair that escapes the ponytail is still contained.
that said, i try not to wear the spongebob bandanas i have whenever i want to impress newbies or fencers from other clubs. or when i fence in a room with lots of large windows. so i guess i don't wear them all that often.  | |
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08-02-2005, 07:22 PM
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#39 | | Scavenger
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| It seems odd to me that anyone would invest that much in socks one way or the other. They're tubes of knitted fabric that go on your legs and feet. Sometimes I wear white ones. Sometimes I wear blue ones or socks with my club colors on them. It depends on what I fish out of the clean-sock basket first. But then, for me, it's about the fencing, not what people are wearing.
I guess I'm a little boggled, because if people judge my fencing ability by what I'm wearing when I fence, then I must seem to be a different fencer depending on whether I'm wearing the Infinity lamé or the stainless one, the adidas uniform or the plain white one, the navy socks or the white ones. If I'm a different fencer when I'm wearing the old sabre mask Bill Hall repaired for me and glued patches to than when I'm wearing the Abominable Visor mask, who am I when I'm wearing the worn-out Negrini?
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08-02-2005, 07:36 PM
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| What was that old TV commercial...
"You never get a second chance to make a first impression"?
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