01-29-2006, 10:15 PM
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#1 | | Just Joined
Join Date: Jan 2006
Posts: 2
| Hey, new poster here ^_^
I suppose i should start things off right by telling a little bit about myself. I guess I'm relatively new at this sport, three years on varsity foil (cause i'm too slow for sabre and an easy target for epee) but I'm having a solid year with my personal record, so it's something to be pleased about (woot!) I fence for my high school team in NY, I'm 16 right now and i'm currently wasting my life building a website for the team because no one else wants to. And our team's pretty much a joke, but we put a valiant effort into our bouts. It's just that fencing is a very disrespected sport at my school and kids make fun of us a lot 
So anyhow, I prefer pistol grips during competitions, but I use a french grip during practice. And I'm infamous for getting shoulder touches and neckline touches. And I'd like to make new fencer friends  So give me a holler sometime!
-T. <3 | 
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01-30-2006, 04:30 AM
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#2 | | Senior Member
Join Date: Oct 2005 Location: Los Angeles
Posts: 7,093
| Welcome.  I hope you post a link to the website sometime. It'd be interesting to see some examples, I"m thinking of setting one up for my club. Whatever the kids at school say about it, it sure is a fun sport, isn't it? It's better then tossing around a pig cadaver anyways.  Enjoy your stay on F-net, and I hope it's not just a one time introduction. These guys are a pretty fun bunch once you get used to 'em. 
And Pistol grip?  What kind?
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02-08-2006, 07:15 AM
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#3 | | Senior Member
Join Date: Jun 2003 Location: Fresno CA
Posts: 5,277
| Welcome, welcome... Always good to have more and more foilists here.
Jack - don't say it until you've been to a real village pigl-slaughter... It's REALLY much work, and almost no fun... at least until the first dishes are ready!
OperaGhostess: are you lefty or righty? (Nice name....  Darkness stirs and weighs imagination) | |
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02-08-2006, 06:40 PM
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#4 | | Senior Member
Join Date: Oct 2005 Location: Los Angeles
Posts: 7,093
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Originally Posted by Nusy Jack - don't say it until you've been to a real village pigl-slaughter... It's REALLY much work, and almost no fun... at least until the first dishes are ready! | My dear Nusy, I was making an obscure reference to football (which is also known as a pigskin). Though I was at a pig slaughter up near sacramento. The food was delicious. 
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02-09-2006, 12:04 PM
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#5 | | Senior Member
Join Date: Jun 2003 Location: Fresno CA
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Originally Posted by JackOfHearts My dear Nusy, I was making an obscure reference to football (which is also known as a pigskin). Though I was at a pig slaughter up near sacramento. The food was delicious. | Ahh, yeah... I keep forgetting about pigskin. Maybe because we train at the same venue as soccer players, and we're the well-known enemies.
Hmmm... delicious things, yeah | |
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02-09-2006, 11:11 PM
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#6 | | Member
Join Date: Feb 2006 Location: Bloomington, IN
Posts: 41
| Welcome to a fellow newb! Keep it up with the HS team, that's awesome! Ours was snubbed by the administration, but we'll stab... err, show them someday!
Pistol grips are the best, but not those wretched Belgian ones. Ew. | |
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02-10-2006, 12:45 AM
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#7 | | Member
Join Date: Nov 2005 Location: Brevard, Nc.
Posts: 86
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It's just that fencing is a very disrespected sport at my school and kids make fun of us a lot
| Just remind them who has more swords, see what they say then.
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02-10-2006, 04:56 AM
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#8 | | Senior Member
Join Date: Oct 2005 Location: Los Angeles
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Originally Posted by tokenfoil Pistol grips are the best, but not those wretched Belgian ones. Ew. | Meh, I've found the russian to be the more comfortable for me, but overall I dislike pistol grips. Italian grip for life, baby!
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Woman was created for our destruction, and it is from her we inherit all our miseries. - Aramis, from The Three Musketeers
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02-10-2006, 02:59 PM
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#9 | | Member
Join Date: Feb 2006 Location: Bloomington, IN
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Originally Posted by JackOfHearts Meh, I've found the russian to be the more comfortable for me, but overall I dislike pistol grips. Italian grip for life, baby! | Ah, correction! I had 'em flip-flopped - hate German grip, prefer Belgian. (someone had told me A was B and such)
I've never tried Italian grip, but someday I'd love to get the chance! French I'll be feeling out again once I've got a glove that fits. | |
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