02-09-2006, 06:44 PM
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| Odd Fencing Moment
No idea where to post this, but wanted to share so here it is.
Last week I was climbing back onto the Corwith Cramer (that's the sailing ship we were on- a 130 ft Hermaphrodite Brig) from the ship's dinghy. This mean standing on the side of the dinghy until a swell lifted you up and then stepping/ clamboring onto a ladder. Everyone else was having trouble with the timing, but I looked at it and realized it was just like attacking into a preparation in sabre. No problemo! I felt more competant as a sailor at that moment than ever before. Or um, since.
Fencing saves the day again!
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Mais que diable allait-il faire,
Mais que diable allait-il faire dans cette galere?. . .
I am not yet so short that I cannot reach thine eyes!
"Just for the taste of sabre"
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02-09-2006, 06:57 PM
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02-09-2006, 09:35 PM
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| I love it when things like that carry over into my life. Developing skills like that will help you for the rest of your life. It's interesting because sometimes things from outside of my life show up in my fencing. For instance, lots of people when fencing, bouce in a particular beat pattern. Usually 4/4 or 3/4, which makes it easy to catch them mid beat. However, because I'm a musician, I fence in 7/8 and occasionally switch to 11/8, making me much harder to catch off my pattern, not impossible though.
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02-09-2006, 10:23 PM
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| I must say, fencing makes it loads easier to do Monty Python imitations. | |
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02-09-2006, 11:35 PM
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| i stand en garde on busses or trains if there aren't seats available.... but other than that....... not so much.
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02-10-2006, 02:39 AM
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Originally Posted by MyrddinsPrecint i stand en garde on busses or trains if there aren't seats available.... but other than that....... not so much. | Yes! So handy!
It's also made wake boarding much easier. | |
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02-10-2006, 09:52 AM
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| I have my degree in music, and I've always found it easier to understand tempo and timing issues because of it.  | |
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02-10-2006, 01:21 PM
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| LOL...
how about windsurfing...or snowboarding...:-)
and altho i am a total beginer....i thought the "mirroring", as the ref says "fence".....and...as a leftie...i see the right handed opponent "assume the position"...it just felt funny...in a cool/ and very right kind of way...
i wonder why more folks dont fence....?? | |
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02-20-2006, 11:03 AM
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