09-07-2005, 09:51 AM
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#21 | | Senior Member
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| When working with the kids - I'll commonly say:
"Fence with your swords, not your mouths"
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09-07-2005, 09:57 AM
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#22 | | Senior Member
Join Date: Apr 2000 Location: New York
Posts: 327
| Every year, at the beginning of the year, before the first practice, after winning NCAA's the previous year.
"Greetings former national champions."
New season, new title, time to get to work.
Guess where I went to school  . | |
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09-07-2005, 10:21 AM
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#23 | | Senior Member
Join Date: Sep 2004
Posts: 634
| When an epeeist clubmate first started fencing sabre- "You've got to be more aggressive! Do you want to be an accountant or a fencer?"
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09-07-2005, 11:03 AM
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#24 | | Senior Member
Join Date: Jun 2003 Location: Princeton NJ
Posts: 286
| The perfect target
Len Carnighan from the Studio of American Fencing was one of my coaches years ago, and he was full of em. The two that ring in my head to this day.
On timing your attacks properly:
"When a guy sleeps with your girlfriend when you want to beat him up? When he's on the can taking a sh**"
He went on to describe the scenario graphically. I always to try look for when my opponent is not ready.
On point control:
"I take all the money you spend on lessons and buy burritos. These are to build the perfect target for my students to hit (caressing bulging stomach). So with all this in front of you why can't you hit me?"
He later explained that he would have to charge me more so he could buy more burritos. I decided to improve instead.
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09-07-2005, 11:13 AM
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#25 | | Senior Member
Join Date: Sep 2002
Posts: 659
| When I was first learning to fence, I saw an opening and lunged, but tripped over one of my shoelaces, stumbled, almost went down on my knees, and, of course missed my opponent. To make matters worse, my coach was directing.
His response I'll never forget: "Offtarget, offbalance, and off the strip. What are you doing down there? Your opponent is up here - behind the en guard line." Meanwhile, everyone was laughing. | |
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09-07-2005, 12:12 PM
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#26 | | Fencing Expert
Join Date: Oct 2003 Location: Virginia
Posts: 1,737
| Maitre Ed Richards is practically a fountain of one-line coaching sayings. My favorite (when talking about distance): "When it's right for me, it's wrong for you!" | 
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09-07-2005, 12:19 PM
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#27 | | Senior Member
Join Date: Apr 2003 Location: Ithaca, NY
Posts: 1,012
| My university club had a few that were golden.
"Squeeze the duck!"
"Meow."
"What are you doing?!"
"Go git 'im! Arrragagh!
I once watched the sabre squad captain rush over to a fencer waiting for advice during a break from a tough bout and ask him where we should go have dinner.
My all-time favorite is from a coach from another club we were fencing at. We did some footwork and finished up a set with a flesche. He frowned and nodded his head a little.
"No one says Opa. It's OK. You are not warriors." He shrugged his shoulders and pursed his lips as if he were just telling us about the weather. 
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09-07-2005, 12:35 PM
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#28 | | Fencing Expert
Join Date: May 2000 Location: The valley of the -hot- sun, NorCal
Posts: 3,185
| While fencing a difficult bout: "Be Man!"
When taking a lesson and finally doing the action correctly: "Yes it is!"
__________________ - Epee is the Louis Vuitton bag of fencing: only the best can get it, and the rest of the masses must content themselves with cheap knockoffs (sabre, foil)
- To not recognize the power of the French grip is to be in denial
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09-07-2005, 12:56 PM
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#29 | | Senior Member
Join Date: Jun 2005
Posts: 1,326
| "You think you won?! THE OTHER GUY LOST! Now stop patting yourself on the back and get to work..." | |
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09-07-2005, 01:09 PM
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#30 | | Senior Member
Join Date: Aug 2005 Location: Hideaway, TX
Posts: 134
| "He who parries not, dies." Russell K. von Wieder | |
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09-07-2005, 01:10 PM
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#31 | | Member
Join Date: Nov 2004
Posts: 96
| The two i used to hear a lot during lessons were
"You sleep!!"
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"change beat" followed by the resounding thunk of an epee guard rebounding off the top of my mask. | |
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09-07-2005, 01:20 PM
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#32 | | Senior Member
Join Date: Oct 2003 Location: South Carolina über Alles
Posts: 2,608
| "Point on!" -Coach Flaschka 
"You're making this way to complicated." -Coach Harris
"Geez, quit having such sh***y footwork..maybe that'll help." -"Coach" Casper
And this is a quote that I really like not by any particular coach:
"Only a man who knows what it is like to be defeated can reach down to the bottom of his soul and come up with the extra ounce of power it takes to win when the match is even."
-Muhammad Ali
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"Encouraging the average age of first intercourse to go below 16?"
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09-07-2005, 02:13 PM
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#33 | | Member
Join Date: Nov 2004
Posts: 96
| I over heard one coach say to a group of fencer "who here has gone down on a rabit at a comp?"
To this day i haven't worked out where this was going  | |
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09-07-2005, 02:29 PM
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#34 | | Senior Member
Join Date: Apr 2005
Posts: 204
| For Epee: "Let your opponent be the one who makes the mistake." | |
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09-07-2005, 02:31 PM
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#35 | | Senior Member
Join Date: Feb 2001
Posts: 110
| one liner
"teaching you kids is like try to stick a wet noodle up a wildcat's nose" - Levi | |
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09-07-2005, 08:42 PM
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#36 | | Senior Member
Join Date: Nov 2003 Location: Savannah, Ga
Posts: 6,133
| I always hated this one:
"Pain is our friend, it reminds us we're alive."
-An old marine/football coach "helping" us run
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09-07-2005, 08:54 PM
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#37 | | Senior Member
Join Date: Aug 2002 Location: Vancouver, BC
Posts: 294
| (add thick Russian accent) : "Do you exercise! You not do you exercise!!
or another one that is slowly becoming a western canadian classic (usually after a miss of an intended hand touch in epee): "finger job, finger job!!! more finger job!!" | |
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09-07-2005, 09:33 PM
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#38 | | Senior Member
Join Date: May 2005 Location: Louisiana
Posts: 1,179
| My faourite was a conversation between two of my coaches at a competition.
Coach A(before the bout): "Are you all right?"
Coach B: My leg is cramping"
Coach B now fences somebody in the championship bout
First period of fencing ends and they teak a break
Coach A: "Still cramping?"
Coach B: "Yeah"
Coach A: "Eat more bannanas"
They then have a minute conversation about potassium absorbtion in Coach B's body
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09-07-2005, 09:39 PM
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#39 | | Senior Member
Join Date: Nov 2001 Location: Cartersville, GA
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| Quote: |
Originally Posted by Mr Epee When working with the kids - I'll commonly say:
"Fence with your swords, not your mouths" | ...and that's why they don't call you "Mr. Sabre."
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09-07-2005, 09:57 PM
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#40 | | Senior Member
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| Another good one I've heard Darius yelling at his fencers when somebody makes a lousy touch- "Great! Now don't do it again."
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