Fancy Name for your special move

[Durando]

Originally Posted by KD5MDK

I tend to go with Keropie, but I have to wonder how the French respond to hearing that shouted during a bout.

They get really quiet wondering WTF. So you translate it for them. "It means, 'Là, voilà,'" you say. Uh-hm... Sit back and smile the following week when you hear a teammate say, "Whoopee ee tis zere!" Which is actually a better name for the move, now that I think of it.

[cs3dswb]

ner ner ner ner cant touch me.....

opponent -> attack, remise, remise, remise, remise, etc....
me -> step back step back step back. top of the wrist stop hit.

OR

the one light dance

[statisticool]

Originally Posted by BySword

What is your special move in fencing (all 3 weapon)? and what is the fancy name for it?

How about one called "Robin Hood" ?

It is where one takes their sword and throws it at the opponent, splitting his sword directly in half!

While a sure crowd pleaser, I believe that would be against the rules.

[Valerio Versace]

Uhm... actually in our club Robin Hood is something totally different.
We call "Robin Hood" the action of farting on your own hand and grasping the face of a nearby person to make him smell it. Then, you have to say: "Robin Hood! Steals to the rich and gives to the poor."

[oso97]

Originally Posted by Valerio Versace

Uhm... actually in our club Robin Hood is something totally different.
We call "Robin Hood" the action of farting on your own hand and grasping the face of a nearby person to make him smell it. Then, you have to say: "Robin Hood! Steals to the rich and gives to the poor."

Lets see... where do you fence?

So that I know to completely avoid that club if I ever get over to Italy to fence!

[Army Fencer]

I call mine the "counterattack." You should become familiar with it.

[Maester]

My special move is called the oh $***. And I dont even curse. lol

[Joe biebel]

Here is a move I just developed. I sit real deep with my feet about at 90 deg. angles to each other. I then rapidly extend my back leg and fencing arm thrusting at my opponent, throwing all of my energy forward, lifting my front foot slightly, landing deep with my front knee bent 90 deg and my back leg straight, sort of a semi-splits position. Don't know what to call it. I'm working on using it while I do advances and retreats too.

[D'Art]

Originally Posted by Joe biebel

Here is a move I just developed. I sit real deep with my feet about at 90 deg. angles to each other. I then rapidly extend my back leg and fencing arm thrusting at my opponent, throwing all of my energy forward, lifting my front foot slightly, landing deep with my front knee bent 90 deg and my back leg straight, sort of a semi-splits position. Don't know what to call it. I'm working on using it while I do advances and retreats too.

Um, the Biebel-bop?

[El Chucko]

Originally Posted by Valerio Versace

A beginner Japanese fencer once saw me fleche and shouted: "Gaijin Flash!!" So, I guess that now my fleche is the Gaijin Flash.

I love it.

Originally Posted by Joe biebel

Here is a move I just developed. I sit real deep with my feet about at 90 deg. angles to each other. I then rapidly extend my back leg and fencing arm thrusting at my opponent, throwing all of my energy forward, lifting my front foot slightly, landing deep with my front knee bent 90 deg and my back leg straight, sort of a semi-splits position. Don't know what to call it...

Hunge? Iunge? Junge? Kunge? I give up.

[El Chucko]

I used to be partial to a little move I called the Passata Squato (self-explanatory, I would expect.)

On a similar topic, my current coach once saw me doing a warm-up that I learned from my ex-Soviet college coach: advance, squat, recover, advance, squat, recover, etc. He adopted them, and now my club members all blame me when we have to do "Chuck Walks."

[noahz]

My move is called the Inverse Super Combo Supreme.

With cheese.

[Amadeus]

if you're doing a move that you need a special name for, you probably shouldn't be doing it. in general.

[Ordway]

Well, there already is a perfectly good name for one of my moves - "flunge." Not many women do flunges (in fact, hardly any outside my club) so the fact that I have a pretty decent one makes it stand out.

[labelle]

The one where you skewer yourself on your opponent's blade is sometimes referred to as "the lemming." It's one of my favorites

[Joe biebel]

One of the favorite movements for my opponents is when I do what I like to call "the chest parry". It's when I get a little too complicated and make some horrific error that leads to an embarassingly obvious hit to the middle of my chest. Like looking for a PIL two or three times, not finding it and attacking into it anyway with the point fixed firmly on my chest.

[sabreur]

Originally Posted by Joe biebel

One of the favorite movements for my opponents is when I do what I like to call "the chest parry". It's when I get a little too complicated and make some horrific error that leads to an embarassingly obvious hit to the middle of my chest. Like looking for a PIL two or three times, not finding it and attacking into it anyway with the point fixed firmly on my chest.

Ah yes... closely related to the mask parry.

[Durando]

Originally Posted by noahz

My move is called the Inverse Super Combo Supreme.

With cheese.

Gol dang, that's a good name.

[fencingfrog]

at my club, we have "obi wan" "squirrel" and "easter bunny" attacks.

obi-wan: stand like obi-wan kenobi with the 2 fingers out on the non weapon arm extended in front with the weaponarm bent behind the head. sorta hard to explain, but anyone who's seen star wars knows it.

squirrel: snarl from in the mask and put hands in claw shapes (while still holding foil) on either side of head. this is named after "squirrel" a kid at our club. he is a squirrel, and started this move.

easter bunny: use your non weapon arm to do bunny ears to yourself, hop forward like the easter bunny and holler the easter bunny is unstoppable!!!

or you could just yell what someone else at our club does "che viva! viva la revolution!!!!!" and fleche!
*these are supposed to be imitated by the opponent, then both people go back en garde and fence. but if they don't it can get messy.*

[Mauler]

This applies only when I am refereeing Foil....

After the halt... after having indicated which side the action came from... after having come to a full attention....

I find the whole Off-Target signalling straight from attention somewhat... sloppy, and difficult to reconcile the mechanical inefficiency. SO.....

I have this intermediary move before and after the Off-Target hand signal that I call, "Draw" and "Reholster," respectively.

From the full-attention after the indication of priority:

I slide up the "consequence" hand up along the side of my body until the desired elbow angle is achieved for an optimal Off-Target signal -- the "swing." I then pronate the forearm 90 degrees. At this point, that arm is now ready to commence the appropriate signal.

Upon conclusion of the Off-Target signal, I wrap up the execution in reverse with a 90-deg supination, followed by sliding down of the hand back to full-attention.

I wait for a bit, contemplating on the Oneness of the Universe.... And then I execute the On-Guard signal (currently under revision for an optimal elbow-to-body separation distance) to resume the bout.......