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Old 12-12-2001, 01:23 PM   #1
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What's the name of your foil/epee/sabre?

My apologies if this kind of thread has appeared before this one! Well I might as well start since I posted this topic:

My practice foil's name is Vinnie. I named him after the guy who plays The Invisible Man on the Scifi channel, Vincent Ventresca.

My foil glove's name is Chingadera. Why? Because thats what it is: crap!

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Old 12-12-2001, 02:21 PM   #2
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I call them the foil with the black tape on the handle, the foil with the yellow tip tape, the plain foil, and the two blue foils.

Pretty creative, isn't it?

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Old 12-12-2001, 04:08 PM   #3
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Like that of tegeus-Cromis, my blades are "unfashionably nameless".
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Old 12-12-2001, 05:39 PM   #4
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The "good foil"
The "good backup foil"
The "non-working foil"
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My foils are unnamed. One of my epees is called Igor because my former coach, Igor , gave me the grip he used in the World Championships and I put it on this epee.
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Old 12-12-2001, 06:39 PM   #6
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[quote]Originally posted by DamedEscrime:
<strong>One of my epees is called Igor because my former coach, Igor , gave me the grip he used in the World Championships and I put it on this epee.</strong><hr></blockquote>

Awwwwww that's so sweet!

355, GRAVY! EWWWWWWWWWWWW!

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Old 12-12-2001, 09:06 PM   #7
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The one with the silver handle is Silver--as in the Lone Ranger's horse--the one with the red grip used to be either Big Red, or The Rebar Blade, I have since replaced that blade with another which happens to be what is reputed to be the "Viviani black blade of death" since it's a black blade it is now know as Stormbringer--after Elric of Melnibone's sword, I've considered naming my next one Mournblade--rarely mentioned sister blade to Stormbringer. Then of course there's always Mary-Margret--which I may name the rebar blade when I get a grip for it.

A friend claims his weapons are named after ex-girlfriends. Another friend has twin epees named Remus and Romulus, their younger sibling is--to continue the trend--Platypus.
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Old 12-12-2001, 11:22 PM   #8
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I try not to name my weapons since they so rarely last over six months. I did have this one epee (a Leon Paul) which I called "the Hansenator," since it was the weapon a friend of mine used to beat national champion Eric Hansen in a pool bout, at a time when my cohort had only been fencing epee about a month and a half. But I sold it to somebody else in my club because it was just too whippy for me.
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Old 12-12-2001, 11:51 PM   #9
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Weapons named after ex-girlfriends? That would be freaky.

I much prefer to get into the mood by naming _opponents_ after ex-girlfriends.
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The foil that works.
The epee that doesn't work.
The borrowed epee that will last me until the epee that doesn't work gets put in a situation where it works.
The practice foil that hasn't been touched in a month.
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hmmmmmmmmm lets see.......

favorite foil.......back up foil.........and
non working foil........ hmmmmmmm idea......

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Well, I used to have "Sweetness" and "Follows" after the REM song Sweetness Follows, even though I didn't like it too much. Right now all of my epees are going through too much to merit a name though, but girl's names are probably what they're going to get(ie Julia, Jennifer, etc.)
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AS I said in the other thread....
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Oh, boo hoo, please mourn the loss of Igor with me. Tonight I snapped his head clean off, right at the end of the barrel. I am devistated. I won my first DE with Igor and he was so young. His bell guard was barely scarred. Pity the good die young.
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**plays an Irish air for Igor on the tin whistle**

Maybe you can have an Igor II?
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[quote]Originally posted by DamedEscrime:
<strong>...Tonight I snapped his head clean off, right at the end of the barrel...</strong><hr></blockquote>

Would that be death by circumcision? <img src="graemlins/jawa.gif" border="0" alt="[Jawa]" />
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What's all this stuff about naming your practice weapons? That never crossed my mind. I guess because they are just for practice and not real swords. Not that I'm saying what you guys do is strange or weird, but never thought about it and haven't heard any of my fellow fencers do this.
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I'm with you, but I DO have clubmates who have named their foils ( it seems a foilist phenomenon in my salle, although one lady sabreur has a weapon she calls "Fluffy"; don't ask ).
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[quote]Originally posted by DamedEscrime:
<strong>Oh, boo hoo, please mourn the loss of Igor with me. Tonight I snapped his head clean off, right at the end of the barrel. I am devistated. I won my first DE with Igor and he was so young. His bell guard was barely scarred. Pity the good die young. </strong><hr></blockquote>

The very reason I don't intend to ever name my foils. The breakage of the blade would be just too sad. I mourn your loss.
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