03-09-2006, 12:10 AM
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#1 | | Just Joined
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| Washing Jackets?
Should you wash jackets or would it ruin it? I'm just very curiuos. 
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03-09-2006, 12:15 AM
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#2 | | Senior Member
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| Cold water wash in the machine....hang up to dry.
Washing good....making opponents, directors, and spectators eyes water from the stench, bad... | |
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03-09-2006, 12:16 AM
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#3 | | Senior Member
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| no, you should never wash it. ruins it... In fact, washing your underwear ruins your underwear as well, so don't was those either. Besides, why would you ever want to wear clean clothes?
ok... here's 2 hints. Go to your club and see if everybody there is wearing brown uniforms that have never been washed. then go the armory section of this website and do a search for "wash" or "washing". the search function is your friend.
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03-09-2006, 12:46 AM
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Originally Posted by Purple Fencer Making opponents, directors, and spectators eyes water from the stench, bad... | No... priceless.
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03-09-2006, 02:38 AM
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| The new sweat will eventually push out the old sweat. | 
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03-09-2006, 03:02 AM
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Originally Posted by Deputy_Cow Should you wash jackets or would it ruin it? I'm just very curiuos. | I wonder if we looked at this guys fencing jacket under a microscope... would we find new forms of life, breeding, evolving... all under his very armpits? Is there a biologist in the house?
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03-09-2006, 03:21 AM
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| I'm all for destroying anyone's experiments with extreme prejudice, if that's thw question.
However, the answer is probably yes. The second answer is probably also yes, but not me. | |
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03-09-2006, 06:19 AM
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#8 | | Senior Member
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| I used to know a fencer who boasted of never washing his gear - he always left it in his bag between classes. So it was forever damp, with a nasty grey colour and a truly repulsive smell. I swear he used it to psych his opponents out... | |
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03-09-2006, 06:25 AM
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#9 | | Épéeist Hive Queen
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Originally Posted by Deputy_Cow Should you wash jackets or would it ruin it? I'm just very curiuos. | Let me guess...you're a sabre fencer, right..?  
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03-09-2006, 11:17 AM
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Originally Posted by PalmFrond I used to know a fencer who boasted of never washing his gear - he always left it in his bag between classes. So it was forever damp, with a nasty grey colour and a truly repulsive smell. I swear he used it to psych his opponents out... | The problem is if you always smell, your opponent gets used to it after a while (somehow). What you want to do is eat a steak sandwich with onions right before your bout. Then when you want to unleash the pain, you perform the "burp and retreat" manouver. When you opponent steps into your trap and starts reeling... thats when you make your move.  No psyching him out here... just pure chemical warfare.
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03-09-2006, 11:29 AM
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| Go ask Brad about his uniform back in his college days... Running joke was, it didn't matter if he was there... His "whites" could always go out and fence on thier own...  | |
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03-09-2006, 11:35 AM
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Originally Posted by Deputy_Cow Should you wash jackets or would it ruin it? I'm just very curiuos. | Yes, you should wash your jacket. Check the label in it for instructions -- usually they require a cold water delicate cycle, and to be hung dry.
m.25.3: "Characteristics of the clothing. Fencers’ clothing must be made of sufficiently robust material and be clean and in good condition." (emphasis added)
If you do not wash your jacket, you can be given a yellow card at the start of every bout for coming to piste with equipment that does not conform to the rules. | |
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03-09-2006, 07:20 PM
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#13 | | Senior Member
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| Deputy Cow: Do you by any chance mean to ask if you should wash your lame rather than your jacket?
I'll withhold ridicule until your reply. 
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03-09-2006, 07:47 PM
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Originally Posted by telkanuru The new sweat will eventually push out the old sweat. | Is that a new type of space age material discovered by Leon paul?
'sweat actually cleans this jacket'
I reckon the hard part about washing your jacket is deciding what smell you want
antarctic spray, summer fresh , lotus breeze
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03-09-2006, 09:20 PM
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#15 | | Curmudgeon-in-Chief
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Originally Posted by OROD I wonder if we looked at this guys fencing jacket under a microscope... would we find new forms of life, breeding, evolving... all under his very armpits?
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Yes. And they would look like tiny, smelly little epeeists, all bouncing rhythmically.
And in their armpits, even tinier smelly epeeists. And so on, ad infinitum... | |
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03-09-2006, 09:37 PM
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Originally Posted by Inquartata Yes. And they would look like tiny, smelly little epeeists, all bouncing rhythmically.
And in their armpits, even tinier smelly epeeists. And so on, ad infinitum... | Hahahahah, damn, I'd give you rep if I could... guess I gotta spread it around a bit.
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03-09-2006, 10:14 PM
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#17 | | Just Joined
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| Here's a quick question, I dont mean to hijack this thread or anything but is there anyway to get a jacket to shrink a tiny bit? I recently got a new allstar jacket and one size was too small in the arms and the next size up was much better but still kinda big in the waist area (I've got pretty long arms so this throws it off a bit), so I'm not really sure what to do about this. They say not to put them in the dryer so I kinda want to avoid that but are there any other ideas? | |
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03-09-2006, 10:57 PM
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#18 | | Senior Member
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Originally Posted by Matt87 Here's a quick question, I dont mean to hijack this thread or anything but is there anyway to get a jacket to shrink a tiny bit? I recently got a new allstar jacket and one size was too small in the arms and the next size up was much better but still kinda big in the waist area (I've got pretty long arms so this throws it off a bit), so I'm not really sure what to do about this. They say not to put them in the dryer so I kinda want to avoid that but are there any other ideas? | Try washing it in hot water and throwing it in the dryer....it may shrink a little (which is why I tell people to wash cold and hang dry normally) | |
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03-09-2006, 11:20 PM
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#19 | | Senior Member
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Originally Posted by Purple Fencer Try washing it in hot water and throwing it in the dryer....it may shrink a little (which is why I tell people to wash cold and hang dry normally) | or shrink a lot, be carefull, take it out every few min | |
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03-11-2006, 10:04 AM
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#20 | | Senior Member
Join Date: Jul 2005 Location: In a Galaxy Far Far Away
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| Please Wash!!!.......
Why does anyone think you shouldn't wash your gear?? I can attest that I am a stink-a-phobe and therefore can say proudly that I have been wearing and washing the same whites for over three years and they aren't ruined yet!! My son and I fence at least three days a week and I wash our whites a minimum of once a week, more if they really get sweaty. It's not that hard - the washing machine does ALL the work. <2 minutes to put them in the machine, <2 minutes to move them to the dryer (on low), <2 minutes to put them back into my bag. For less than 5 minutes of effort - our whites are white and smelling fine. I also wash our lames (we have 4 different ones, Blue Gauntlet, Infinity, Blade and Leon Paul). I hand wash them every few months, all with gentle soap and let them air dry - never had a problem getting them passed at a competition. I have found that CLR (a product that removes calcium, lime and rust deposits) diluted with water and in a spray bottle works great at removing those green stains around the neck and cuffs.
Now on the other hand - regarding the onion breath burp and retreat - that deserves more thought!!! | |
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