Help: russian terminology

[Krazyhades]

And שלם to you too Man, this is hard without hebrew stickers on keyboard :-(

Ya, I know what you mean friend. The jew-talk isn't common in the fencing community either. (well, I don't know if you are Jewish, but I am)

[needle]

well, I don't know if you are Jewish, but I am

Yep. My Hebrew is very biblical and household, though - no fencing terminology :-(

[Lemberg]

My coach is a Jewish Ukrainian. Don't think it's that uncommon.

[Krazyhades]

Is the Isreali olympic team any good (compared to other olympic teams)? And there are probably very few arabic jewish fencers (as in from Israel, not Russia) And yes, I realize that there could be a lot of eastern-european jewish fencers. I myself and half russian (and half Norse. VIKINGS!!!).

[Lemberg]

I only know a few of Israeli fencers.. Tomer Orr is a very good foilist who won Vancouver WC last year. Epeeist Alexei Cheremski (whom my present coach used to coach in both Ukraine and Israel) has been a force to reckon with on a senior world cup circuit for the last decade or so - but as far as I know he had retired and recently moved to the States to coach. He himself had anumber of really good students (Viatcheslav Zingerman -a very strong junior for the last couple of years was one of them if I'm not mistaken).

[tkrivosh]

What about 4 Jacobsons? (David, Sada, Emily, and Jackie) ,
our coach is Ukranian Jew and I find it extremely common around here.
Of course it is all here, not there

[Krazyhades]

What about 4 Jacobsons? (David, Sada, Emily, and Jackie) ,
our coach is Ukranian Jew and I find it extremely common around here.
Of course it is all here, not there

Cool. And "here" means nothing to me because you haven't put your location in your profile. haha

[tkrivosh]

Is not it rather obvious? OK, USA, Southeast...

[secretly]

It is. But it takes more P&P (planning and preparation). How many households you know that have a watermelon lying around just waiting for the mood to get wasted? A loaf of bread, on the other hand ...
Plus, we came up with all of this stuff when we were poor hungry students in the USSR, where watermelons were available two weeks a year and we wanted to drink most of the year

true, true... but nothing beats a watermelon on a high school trip to the beach!

P.S. Happy Old New Year to those who know what it means

[tkrivosh]

I always knew of course that there was a lot of russian speakers in fencing, but the amount of people on fencing forum with the knowledge of the Old New Year really impressed me.

[Peach]

One of our coaches is also a Ukrainian Jew (Josef Vitebskiy)

[FencingKitten]

Oh what the heck.

Ya tozhe govoryu po russki, no ya tak lenive pisat' s kirrilitsoy.

(And now those with a much better grasp of Russian than mine can mock me (or, you know, correct me, either or)! Excellent!)

[Lemberg]

Booooy this thread got jacked..... And ya, I am also impressed with the amount of sootechestvenniki (=compadres) on this forum..... Any of you will be in Houston to celebrate Ye Olde New Year with me? ... Oh wait...... it's the night before DivI ME..... yikes......

[Zilverzmurfen]

VIKINGS!!!

You called..?

[PeterGustafsson]

Hi!

You called..?

Does your coach know the answers posed by the original poster?


Have a nice time!

Peter Gustafsson

[Zilverzmurfen]

Does your coach know the answers posed by the original poster?

I haven't fenced in a couple of weeks. And anyway, Needle has provided reply already.


God Fortsättning!

[FencingKitten]

So, in favor of rejacking the jacked thread.

Does anyone know of a good reference for fencing terms, not just the names of the weapons? An ideal vocab list for the reference I mean would look something like:

fencer - fextovats/fextovanka
to fence - fextirovat'
en guarde -
halt -
attack
parry
riposte
no - nyet
counter attack
touch -
right - prabiy
left -leviy

(etc etc etc)

I haven't been able to do much with it using just my dictionary and textbooks, so I'm starting to look on the web for the appropriate terms. Anyone have any suggestions?

[Lemberg]

You got a couple thinsg wring there...
Fencing - fehtovaniye
to fence - fehtovat'
en guarde - prez? - alle! - K boyu! - Gotovy? Nachinajte!
halt - stop
Attack - ataka
parade - zaschita
riposte - otvet
touche - ukol/udar - although, someties you'll get reffing in French. Not too often.

[Goofy]

So, in favor of rejacking the jacked thread.

Does anyone know of a good reference for fencing terms, not just the names of the weapons? An ideal vocab list.....
I haven't been able to do much with it using just my dictionary and textbooks, so I'm starting to look on the web for the appropriate terms. Anyone have any suggestions?

I found this page:

http://club.fencing.ru/cntnt/menu/li...inologiya.html

Of course, though, now someone has to translate and provide a pronunciation guide....

[needle]

I found this page:
http://club.fencing.ru/cntnt/menu/li...inologiya.html
Of course, though, now someone has to translate....

Nice, Goofy - I posted same link couple of seconds after you did and decided to delete in the spirit of non-proliferation of duplicates

I can do the translation, but only if it's really needed - I mean, most people interested in Russian fencing terminology already know Russian to some degree and already know English fencing terminology - making the connection should not be that hard...