Most popular weapon at your club?

[archon]

Every team or club I have been a part of has been primarily foil.

[jrgunn]

It varies. We have all three weapons at the club, but right now sabre seems to be on the upswing, with foil and epee maintaining their numbers. But these things tend to change over time.

[telkanuru]

Sabre and Epee are close for 1st, foil a distant 2nd.

[Rapier_wit]

As stated in other threads, my club is a firm-standing supporter of the Church of Epee.

And as Velisarios said, "There is only one weapon...epee." (Though rapier follows in a close second. )

[Lemberg]

80% epee, 19.99% sabre and one good foilist who hasn't been showing up much. Probably because there's only one of him... Sabre is on the upsurge, which I think is great, as there is so little of it here on the West Coast of Canada, but i am starting to be alarmed by our head coach's latest tendency to just put all beginner kids into the hands of our sabre coach while he concentrates on us - his competitive epeeists. I don't think the kids mind, but we've had a long history of success in epee and I guess I just want our pool of future epeeists to be continuously replenished.

[larkmaj]

Sabre and Epee are close for 1st, foil a distant 2nd.

Wouldn't that be a distant 3rd?

[Sciurus-Rex]

All three in balance.

[oso97]

All three in balance.

You mean your club doesn't have any stellar individuals who fence one weapon much better than the others? Thats a pretty rare feat...

[Durando]

I'm in a big club. The divisions seem to break down mostly according to age and experience. The foilists are all kids. Sabreurs are divided evenly between kids and adults. Epéeists are mostly adults with a few good kids. Our two maitres d'armes are a one-time sabreur and a foilist. In our case at least, there seems to be absolutely no effort spent on teaching foil to a beginner adult (or even university students).

Competition must be so damn hard here in foil that either you are very high level in foil or you just quit. But the competetive level of épée and sabre is pretty tough as well, so it doesn't explain the almost complete absence of 30+ year old foilists in our club of around 350 members.

[Epee_Pox]

Mostly sabre and foil. A handful of epee fencers, who are all better than me.

[Inigo_Montoya]

Our club is by far most dominant in epee. We got numbers in foil due to our beginners, but not many are at the competitive level. Sabre fencers are few are far between (probably about half the people who fence sabre at club are epee fencers).

[ninjafencer]

Foil.
There's one guy who brings a sabre to practice sometimes, but that's all.

[Morion]

Actually in my Salle it has become all three. We have acquired two volunteer coaches one for Epee and one for Sabre. So every weapon has its followers.

[parrythis]

Looking purely at the numbers, I would have to say foil. But that may be due to the fact that all of our beginners start out with foil and that's all they know when they hit the "open" group.

The epeeists and sabreurs, however, have the most fun.

[Elendae]

Club 1- foil, Epee, and a very small group of dedicated saberists
Club 2- foil, Epee, and a sabre that comes out of the bag occasionally
Club 3- All Epee. The lower weapons are laughed at.

[QueenofSwords89]

It's weird.

S- 65%
E- 30%
F- 5%

There are eight foilists at my club, including me.

One reason why I'm taking saber lessons.

[Beowulfman6]

Essentialy just foil here, for now. I do epee too, but I'm the only one. Maybe when the others try the other weapons they will like them more.

[sabreur]

We have more foilists on some days, and more epeeists on others.

But sabre is the most popular and dominant, because that is just the kind of people we are....

And as at Quart's club, we are still at it long after the foilists and epeeists have gone home.