09-11-2005, 10:23 AM
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#61 | | Senior Member
Join Date: Jun 2005
Posts: 1,326
| "You take this &%$#@&%! weapon and you &%$#@&%! your &%$#@&%! opponent until he &%$#@&%! for mercy, and then you &%$#@&%! him again! You &%$#@&%! got that?!"
Or something like that. The exact phrasing eludes me. | 
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09-11-2005, 12:08 PM
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#62 | | Senior Member
Join Date: May 2004 Location: Blacksburg, Virginia
Posts: 185
| Not sure who said these, or even the exact words. I think I saw it on some human interest segment during a golf tournament...
"Every day that you do not practice is another day before you can become great"
"Every day you do not practice, one of your opponents IS practicing"
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09-11-2005, 08:22 PM
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#63 | | Senior Member
Join Date: Dec 2004 Location: Wokingham, United Kingdom
Posts: 581
| A few random ones:
"Think less about hitting, and more about constructing the hit",
"Keep the fire in your heart, and the ice in your head" (someone on the Forum said that, can't remember who, but it's great",
"Make it snappy!",
"The aim of fencing is to know what your oponent wants to do, and make him do what he thinks he wants to do",
"Kill the *******". | |
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09-11-2005, 08:24 PM
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#64 | | Senior Member
Join Date: Oct 2003
Posts: 5,563
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Originally Posted by JCL "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... | Just dont complain to the referee asking for a ten minute break cause of that. 
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09-13-2005, 12:17 PM
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#65 | | Just Joined
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| These are some of my favorites for training:
- When you are not practising, someone else is; when you meet that person they will beat you
- Luck is when preparation meets opportunity
- The will to win means nothing without the will to prepare | |
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09-13-2005, 03:17 PM
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#66 | | Senior Member
Join Date: Jan 2001 Location: Pacoima, ca USA
Posts: 6,102
| "Fence well....don't suck."
Me to myself usually... | |
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09-13-2005, 03:22 PM
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#67 | | Senior Member
Join Date: Jan 2003 Location: Charlottesville VA
Posts: 3,111
| Okay, so this is not quite the same thing, but I think it is a funny story and could be considered advice (the make it look cool part) in some sense...
So I was fencing in the pools at an open, and a former clubmate of mine was refereeing. Opponent attacks, I take six and shoot for the hand, which hits flat, so I continue to the foot ducking under the opponents counter, but just before I hit the ref calls halt (thinking that the hand touch should have scored), my foot touch lands and my light goes off. I turn to look at the ref say:
Me: The halt was for the touch on the foot right?
Ref: No, the touch came after the halt.
Me: (pull up my mask and stare at the ref) So what was the halt for exactly?
Ref: (Somewhat sheepishly, knowing that he blew the call and cost me a touch) No touch, it landed after the halt.
(short pause)
Me: Okay, but tell me this (ref gets ready for my screaming argument), did it look cool?
Ref: (smiling) It looked very cool, it would have been a nice touch.
Me: Then that's what counts!
And I go on to win the bout and finish second in the pool... At least I think it is a funny story. 
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09-13-2005, 03:28 PM
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#68 | | Fencing Expert
Join Date: Oct 2003 Location: Virginia
Posts: 1,737
| Once, my coach, Jim Denton, was working with a strong junior foilist. The foilist, still being young, thought he knew most everything. He refused to cooperate in a certain sequence of actions in a lesson and Jim raised his mask, gripped his weapon, looked at the foilist and said in a low voice: "Don't make me beat you with this." | |
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09-13-2005, 05:37 PM
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#69 | | Senior Member
Join Date: Jun 2002 Location: 40D 34' 7.046" N by 74D 26' 23.503" W
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| Awww.... Come on!!!! Reach out and touch someone!
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09-13-2005, 05:47 PM
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#70 | | Senior Member
Join Date: Apr 2003 Location: Tucson, AZ USA
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| My coach to me whenever I screw up something simple: "Your Fired!"
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09-13-2005, 06:19 PM
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#71 | | Senior Member
Join Date: Oct 2003 Location: South Carolina über Alles
Posts: 2,608
| One of my old coaches...we'll call him "Doc" for the sake of the story...had this great saying for foil. "Hit them in the silver area!" Imagine the hilarity the first time we came across the blue lame's.
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09-13-2005, 06:24 PM
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#72 | | Senior Member
Join Date: Jan 2001 Location: Pacoima, ca USA
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Originally Posted by RebelFencer One of my old coaches...we'll call him "Doc" for the sake of the story...had this great saying for foil. "Hit them in the silver area!" Imagine the hilarity the first time we came across the blue lame's. | That's why I usually say it "Hit the metallic part, guys."....typically to beginners who are hitting everything in sight EXCEPT their opponent's lames! | |
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09-13-2005, 06:34 PM
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#73 | | Senior Member
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Originally Posted by Purple Fencer That's why I usually say it "Hit the metallic part, guys."....typically to beginners who are hitting everything in sight EXCEPT their opponent's lames! | Those type of free thinkers belong in an Epee environment!
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09-13-2005, 11:54 PM
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#74 | | Senior Member
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Originally Posted by RebelFencer Those type of free thinkers belong in an Epee environment! | No no I believe everyone can be redeemed  !
EDIT: Or- Yeah sure foilist need point control practice too!
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09-14-2005, 02:36 AM
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#75 | | Senior Member
Join Date: Jan 2004 Location: Boston, MA
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| If you find them hitting their opponet's guard, you know they've taken your advice... | |
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09-14-2005, 03:16 AM
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#76 | | Curmudgeon-in-Chief
Join Date: Jul 2001 Location: Somewhere in your nightmares!
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Originally Posted by Black Jeebus No no I believe everyone can be redeemed ! | Yes. Why punish when we can try to rehabilitate?  | |
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09-14-2005, 04:53 AM
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#77 | | Fencing Expert
Join Date: Jun 2000 Location: CA area
Posts: 6,262
| For my beginning students, I offer two rules:
Rule #1: Never point the weapon at anyone's face until they have a mask on and is ready to fence. (A typical safety rule.)
Rule #2: Hit the body not the blade.
#2 applies mainly to the kids. Too many of them think fencing is Pricess Bride or Star Wars and the goal is to bash the opponent's blade until it become inoperable. I tell them to aim for the body and let the opponent figure out how to stop that.
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09-14-2005, 11:26 AM
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#78 | | Senior Member
Join Date: Apr 2005 Location: FENCING!
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| "You're thinking too much."
Thinking about how to attack, what to do next etc.
"If it falls off, I'll replace it."
Drills are brutal. 
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Minute help entrusting which it knows it gives. -- Translated by Google from a Vietnamese post.
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09-14-2005, 05:44 PM
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#79 | | Senior Member
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Originally Posted by Sciurus-Rex "You take this &%$#@&%! weapon and you &%$#@&%! your &%$#@&%! opponent until he &%$#@&%! for mercy, and then you &%$#@&%! him again! You &%$#@&%! got that?!"
Or something like that. The exact phrasing eludes me. | My coach uses a similar phrase, only it is "#$*%)(*&" rather than "&%$#@&%!".
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09-15-2005, 04:54 AM
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#80 | | Just Joined
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| favorite coach one liners
"Make an attack, don't have one." | |
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