09-08-2005, 02:08 AM
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#41 | | Just Joined
Join Date: Aug 2005 Location: Charlotte, North Carolina
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| Ahhh i hear this one from my coach everytime I go to a fencing tournament and I think I suck at fencing.
"You don't suck, I'll tell you if you suck."
Memories...
pretty self-explanatory
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09-08-2005, 02:30 AM
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#42 | | Senior Member
Join Date: Oct 2004
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| Our club's head coach, who is a woman, during private lessons: "Stick it in me!" The kids have had alot of fun with that one. | |
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09-08-2005, 03:21 AM
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#43 | | Question Game Queen
Join Date: Feb 2005 Location: Southern Canadia
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| All from the first coach of my high school team:
"You're going after each other with weapons. You have to be polite."
"You need to work very hard to be average."
"Don't get off-balance."
"You're trying to kill your opponent, not give him points."
"That's not a lunge. That's a lounge."
and, of course, my personal favorite,
"There's no such thing as a free lunge."
Look for several of the quotes in this thread to appear on t-shirts in my store, http://www.cafepress.com/gofencing | |
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09-08-2005, 09:01 AM
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#44 | | Senior Member
Join Date: Aug 2005 Location: NC,SC, TN
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| If you parry them.....
I was at a NAC in Chicago many years ago and after a teammate lost a bout because he didn't riposte after many parrys the ref came up to him. He was from some eastern European country and said in broken english.
"Footwork, very good, attack, very good, but if you parry them..... (long pause as it appeared that he was looking for the right word)....they must be punished!"
To this day I still remind students of this saying, it is one of my favorites.
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09-08-2005, 02:24 PM
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#45 | | Senior Member
Join Date: Nov 2003 Location: at the lab bench
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| My favorite, the 6 P's:
Proper Preparation Prevents Piss Poor Performance.
and, from my coach to cup-less male fencers:
(French accent)You MUST have Mr. Wiggly protector!
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09-08-2005, 02:52 PM
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#46 | | Senior Member
Join Date: Jan 2005
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| A pearl that seemed to click with my son when he first started competing. He won his first bout 5-0 using the same move 5 times. He was then determined to force the same move to work on everyone else, regardless of the consequences. He proceeded to lose every other bout 5-0:
"When you find something is working, keep doing it. When it stops working, do something else".
He had the first part down cold. It was the second that he had trouble with.
That one has stuck. Probaby due to the incredibly perfect timing of the comment...as he was walking off the strip (in tears) after being eliminated and wondering what the heck just happened. | |
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09-09-2005, 02:06 AM
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#47 | | Senior Member
Join Date: Feb 2005 Location: Buffalo, NY
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| Fencing epee...
"Be the frog."
Also, all occasion:
"Fence to win, don't fence not-to-lose."
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09-09-2005, 10:17 AM
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#48 | | Just Joined
Join Date: Apr 2005 Location: MA
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| "Pain is weakness leaving the body."
This, of course, came after I broke my left elbow playing basketball warming up for the night. Amazing how that left arm really isn't necessary as much other than a counterweight for a right handed fencer... | |
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09-09-2005, 01:24 PM
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#49 | | Senior Member
Join Date: Aug 2005 Location: Borings-ville
Posts: 223
| We have a couple one liners at the club. Sometimes, my coach yells "SHOE!" or points to her shoe after a touch. Then oh gee, my shoe accidentally came off. Looks like I need to take about 30 seconds to tie it within ear shot of my coach. Oh my hair's falling out.  Need to redo that too. Stalling works like a charm.
One that I have, is when I'm watching someone who's a far better fencer then me fence, and nobody else is cheering them on. During their break, or before a bout, I walk up to them with a very serious expression: "Now pay very close attention. Take the tip of your foil, and make it touch their lame, WITHOUT letting their tip touch yours. Aim for the grey vest!"  It makes them laugh and loosen up a bit, so I guess it actually works in a way.
Oh, and another one: "If you want it, take it." | |
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09-09-2005, 01:26 PM
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#50 | | Senior Member
Join Date: Mar 2005
Posts: 292
| not so much a one liner... or motivational...
"You lost to a girl? This is unacceptable. Stop looking at them and fence them. I know they are all cuddley on the outside, but they are like lions on the inside." | |
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09-09-2005, 02:43 PM
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#51 | | Senior Member
Join Date: Jul 2003 Location: Charlotte, NC area
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Originally Posted by penguin_2000 "You lost to a girl? This is unacceptable. Stop looking at them and fence them. I know they are all cuddley on the outside, but they are like lions on the inside." |
Are you related to DFP? Sounds like something he would say. | |
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09-09-2005, 05:37 PM
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#52 | | Curmudgeon-in-Chief
Join Date: Jul 2001 Location: Somewhere in your nightmares!
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| I have related this one before, but it still tickles me:
Ralph Faulkner, gazing down at one of his fencers who was lying on the strip with a punctured lung from a broken epee: "That wouldn't have happened if you'd parried". And he walks away... | |
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09-09-2005, 06:38 PM
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#53 | | Member
Join Date: Nov 2003 Location: LA, CALIF
Posts: 78
| Anyone remember who said this "maybe you should take up the sport of bowling!" (hint - said w/heavy accent) | |
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09-09-2005, 09:52 PM
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#54 | | Member
Join Date: Jun 2004 Location: Cleveland
Posts: 44
| My coach on various occassons to various fencers: "Relax Dammit!"
Me trying to get beginners to attack: "run them down like the dogs they are!" -or- "remise until they scream, whether it is your opponent or the official who screams is irrelavent" | |
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09-09-2005, 11:48 PM
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#55 | | Member
Join Date: Aug 2004 Location: North Myrtle Beach, SC, USA
Posts: 86
| Because I Can...
My coach was trying to get a new fencer to parry instead of retreat.
Fencer: "Why do you keep bashing me on the head?"
Coach: "Because I can."
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09-10-2005, 12:49 AM
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#56 | | Senior Member
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Originally Posted by Li'l Bebe Sometimes, my coach yells "SHOE!" or points to her shoe after a touch. Then oh gee, my shoe accidentally came off. Looks like I need to take about 30 seconds to tie it within ear shot of my coach. | That is so Utah Valley. You guys are such cheaters.  | |
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09-10-2005, 02:24 PM
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#57 | | Senior Member
Join Date: Feb 2005 Location: Amherst, MA
Posts: 213
| All things I have had coaches say to me in bouts:
"Hit them with the pointy end of the stick."
"Don't get hit."
"Start thinking..... okay now stop thinking."
"The point is to get to five before they do." | |
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09-10-2005, 05:16 PM
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#58 | | Senior Member
Join Date: Nov 2002 Location: Way Out West
Posts: 5,120
| Once when about to fence a vastly stronger team - "Go have fun".
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09-10-2005, 07:18 PM
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#59 | | Immortal
Join Date: Jul 2000 Location: Heidelberg, GE
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Originally Posted by jeff Once when about to fence a vastly stronger team - "Go have fun". | Sort of like "We who are about to die salute you."
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09-11-2005, 08:37 AM
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#60 | | Member
Join Date: May 2005 Location: Philippines
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| My coach always telling me.....
1. Dont be threatened
2. Relax your mind
3. Play in your on way
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