06-19-2001, 09:51 AM
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| Living with honor and grace
I have found that fencing has allowed me the opportunity to change my behavior in a positive manner. It has helped refine my sense of honor toward my fellow man and to accept minor defeats and set backs with grace and style. It is also quite good for one's posture. I would be interested in any real life anecdotes you would care to share on this topic if you have had similar experiences. | 
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06-19-2001, 10:15 AM
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06-19-2001, 10:48 AM
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| i totaly agree with you pointillist... but i didn't know that there was any fencing Salles in Kodiak, AK... so where do you fence?? | |
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06-19-2001, 11:07 AM
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| Right on, Arcon. I think that's why most of us like to fence. Not like most of the other major spectator sports out there; fencing is civilized.
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06-19-2001, 11:09 AM
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| I've only been fencing for almost a year, and yet I've already picked up on this. I'm also curious about Alaska clubs an salles. I go up there a lot, and was wondering where I could go to fence. Although, I probably could just look it up on the USFA website.
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06-19-2001, 11:48 AM
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| I fence at a new club that is just starting up and I'd be happy to discuss it with you on another thread. There are opportunities to fence in Alaska in Anchorage, Fairbanks, Eagle River (suburb of Anchorage) and Homer.
My experience with my fellow Alaskan fencers has proven to be very satisfying and heartening. A great group of people. I'm particularly enjoying the development of the beginning fencers in our club as they discover the joys of the mind game. Honor and respect is the order of the day. They are learning to fence in the process! | |
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06-19-2001, 01:45 PM
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| i didn't know there was fencing in kodiak, i thought it was all fishing, but the topic of ego vs confidence is very good and worth going into in depth. the major psychologists of the last century have studied the concept of ego integrity and formulated many theories on it, freud centered ego integrity on the sex drive, while jung centered ego integrity on a spritural drive - who else has studied and what else have you seen? thanks | |
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06-19-2001, 02:04 PM
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| I've always felt that Merlin said it well in the movie "Excaliber"; "There's always something cleverer than yourself."
If you keep that in mind when fencing (or anything else for that matter) it helps keep the ego in check, and the mind on the alert for new opportunity. | |
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06-19-2001, 02:25 PM
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06-19-2001, 06:13 PM
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| you' re getting way to serious for me,
I feel Stunning,
oh so stunning,
it's alarming how stunning i feeeeeeeelllll>....... | |
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06-20-2001, 07:05 AM
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Join Date: Feb 1999 Location: Australia - various
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| I just tonight had this type of conversation with one of the juniors at our club. I had told her last week being a good fencer technically was ok, but if you wanted to win you had to "WANT" it more then anything in your heart and mind. Generally she is a very quiet girl, who keeps fairly much to the other girls from her school, well tonight she had the fire of a dragon in her, it was beautiful to see. She had told me earlier I was right wanting to win, and winning go hand in hand (she had come 2nd in a schoolies comp onthe weekend.)
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