What EPEE blades do you use?

[BySword]

I just want to have a generall idea of what everybody is using and why.

[BySword]

I just want to have a generall idea of what everybody is using and why.
if you use multiple ones, select the ones you prefer.

[the reluctant fencer]

I have used the BF fie blued blades exclusively for the last several years...they last about 7 months with mixed club and competition use. I am going to experiment with some other blades...I think I am going to try one of those viniti blades... The BF FIEs tend to be on the stiff side until they near the end of their life...then they get loose and are good for flicking...and then you d a strong lunge hit (usually in a lesson) and it snaps...

[Dax]

I have been using the BF blades, but at JOs I picked up a Dinamo FIE blade and I really like it a lot. Its nice and stiff and seems indestructable. I can parry all I want and even try to bend the blade and it wont bend and the edges wont get rough.

[Spike327]

I picked up two BF FIE whites a month or two ago (through a proxy at JOs). They were a bit stiff at first, but after a week or so they got soft enough to flick okay but still stayed hard enough to be responsive and accurate.

At NCAAs I think I went for the foot and had the point stick on the bottom of their shoe... the blade took a 90 degree bend upward right near the tip when their foot came down on top of it. I could never quite get that kink out and the blade broke there about a week ago. So basically, nice blades, but I had hoped for more life out of that one =/.

[El Chucko]

Vniti.

Mostly because of their durability. I just started using them a year ago, but I have heard from others that they can last years. Also, I like the "springy" balance and feeling of them better than the BFs that I used to use before.

(BTW, shouldn't this be in the "Armory" forum?)

[larkmaj]

Must....Resist....Urge....

ahh I can't:
Poll: So what Epee blade do YOU use?

Altough that poll is closed... Incidentally, this should go in the armoury.

Either way, I fence with a BF white FIE although I am interested in the LP lightweight epee system. However, as an earlier thread discussed, it seems the increase in life does not make up for the increase in price, so unless I require it, I will go with the non-FIE LP blade.

[Spike327]

Well fine, the real question on everyone's minds: When will we be seeing the 'MC' FIE Epee blades? The foils are out there, but we're still waiting for epee.

[D+F+P=Hadouken!]

I have used pretty much every blade on the market. My two favorites of, all the blades I've used (BF, LP, Vniti, STM, Prieur, Fleche, SG, PBT) are the BF whites and the Prieur FIE blades. I think I like the prieur a hair more. It kinks up alot, but for some reason, it feels very "alive".

[BySword]

Must....Resist....Urge....

ahh I can't:
Poll: So what Epee blade do YOU use?

Altough that poll is closed... Incidentally, this should go in the armoury.

Either way, I fence with a BF white FIE although I am interested in the LP lightweight epee system. However, as an earlier thread discussed, it seems the increase in life does not make up for the increase in price, so unless I require it, I will go with the non-FIE LP blade.

I saw that too, but it's almost two years old...
but looking at the result, I am assuming the trend did not change even a little bit...

[needle]

Did anyone hear of/had chance to try the new ELI (escrime line international) epee blades?
Supposedly they got them FIE-approved recently

[KD5MDK]

http://www.fie.ch/download/rules/fr/...2020050919.pdf

Here is the current list of FIE approved blades. It may of course be updated at any moment. Updated copies will be on the FIE website.

[Dr. Pfleschbach]

I like BF blades the best but they seem to be very brittle. STMs are my second choice, but a bit too wobbly and harder to control.

A while back I bought a couple of Prieur FIEs, the super stiff ones that I don't think they make any more. I was trying to force myself to stop flicking because I kept getting hit by counter attacks when I raised my tip. I was having a hard time breaking the habit until I tried the Prieurs which were so stiff that I had to abandon the flick as a tactic. Using them actually really improved my fencing, but I went back to BFs because I felt the extra stiff Prieurs were too dangerous. I'm a pretty big guy and using the Prieurs would sometimes result in hurting my opponents, which wasn't my intention. I remember one tournament where a scrawny teenager attacked into my extented arm and literally bounced off the tip and wound up on the floor. Luckily he wasn't seriously hurt, but I really felt awful because he looked like he was going to cry out of humiliation.

[VELISARIOS]

Maralgin.
There very durable and light in heavy.THere are good bledes.

[Gav]

No need for two threads ...

Surely this should be "Which Epee blades do you use?"

[telkanuru]

I use Vniti since anything else tends to snap in the tang when I try to flick when posting.

[BySword]

I am using Viniti
a little bit to whipy

[smurfette]

LM -- through friends who can get them at world cups. BF are the best, but I can rarely afford them. STM sucks -- clunky, and they lose their shape almost immediately.

[LUDICROUS]

BF FIE, once they freaking get here.

[MyraTrue]

Back in the semesters I was still fencing... I had taken to using the Fleche blades. Why? They're cheap. They're light. I'm not particularly hard on blades, and having bad wrists, a lighter but not particularly flicky blade has been nice. It's in my college student budget.