05-08-2006, 12:33 PM
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#1 | | Just Joined
Join Date: Apr 2006 Location: Minnesota
Posts: 18
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Hi all,
I'm new to fencing.net, even tho I've been fencing for about 15 years now. My primary weapon is epee, although I've been dabbling in foil recently. I started fencing in high school in NJ and the continued in college at Brown. After graduation, I fenced in Boston for a few years before taking a job as a fencing coach.
Most recently I've been fencing in MN while I'm in grad school.
Not much really to say other than "hello". Thanks! | 
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05-08-2006, 01:16 PM
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#2 | | Senior Member
Join Date: Sep 2005 Location: Bay Area
Posts: 4,693
| Welcome! I too got my start fencing epee on a New Jersey High School team, sadly. Took a lot of work to correct what it left me with. 
Which school did you fence for, back in the day?
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05-08-2006, 01:42 PM
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#3 | | Just Joined
Join Date: Apr 2006 Location: Minnesota
Posts: 18
| Lawrenceville
I fenced for the Lawrenceville School in NJ, graduating in 1994.
Believe me, I have my share of bad habits from that time as well. | |
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05-08-2006, 01:44 PM
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#4 | | Senior Member
Join Date: Sep 2005 Location: Bay Area
Posts: 4,693
| Haha, I'm sure. I Graduated from VHS in 2001.
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"If I were ever to challenge you to a duel, your best bet would be battle axes in a very dark basement." Misquoted from The Prisoner
"Technical excellence is the antecedant of tactical creativity." - Nat Goodhartz
But those things which belong neither to God nor to Caeser, feeleth free to writeth them off, for yea, they are deductable.
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05-08-2006, 01:52 PM
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#5 | | Senior Member
Join Date: Apr 2000 Location: Chelmsford, MA
Posts: 1,878
| Ben,
Welcome to the board... nice to see a familiar name pop up here...
I hope things are going well for you and Margaret.
Take care,
-w
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05-08-2006, 02:06 PM
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#6 | | Fencing Expert
Join Date: Apr 2000 Location: Pennsauken, NJ
Posts: 9,089
| BEN!!!!
FOIL?!?!?! Wouldn't have guessed that.
-B
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05-08-2006, 02:10 PM
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#7 | | Just Joined
Join Date: Apr 2006 Location: Minnesota
Posts: 18
| Believe it! Y'know Brad, I was surprised as hell when you started fencing sabre.
I even won the Div II/Div III qualifiers in MN. Granted only 5 people showed up, but I'll take it! 
RIT, was Lawless still coaching at VHS when you were there? | |
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05-08-2006, 03:40 PM
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#8 | | Senior Member
Join Date: May 2005 Location: NJ, USA
Posts: 1,007
| My, my, a familiar face!
Hi, Ben! How've you been? You're in Minnesota now? How's the fencing there?
Dirk | |
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05-08-2006, 05:47 PM
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#9 | | Just Joined
Join Date: Apr 2006 Location: Minnesota
Posts: 18
| Hi Dirk.
Yes, I'm in MN. The fencing is fine for what I am after at this point. I'm no longer training seriously so the more relaxed atmosphere of this division works pretty well for me.
As I said in my intro, I'm in graduate school at the U of M in geology. I'm basically fencing when my studies allow me to, which prevents me from going great guns. Also, my income as a grad students means that I can't travel very far for competitions. Even though I've been here for more than a year, I have yet to go to a competition outside of the Twin Cities. (although I'll be changing that in 2 weeks at the Midwest Sectional). | |
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05-08-2006, 06:00 PM
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#10 | | Senior Member
Join Date: Sep 2005 Location: Bay Area
Posts: 4,693
| Yeah, he's actually still there. Really nice man, but I should bill him for all the lessons I had to get to fix what he taught me.
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"If I were ever to challenge you to a duel, your best bet would be battle axes in a very dark basement." Misquoted from The Prisoner
"Technical excellence is the antecedant of tactical creativity." - Nat Goodhartz
But those things which belong neither to God nor to Caeser, feeleth free to writeth them off, for yea, they are deductable.
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05-28-2006, 01:33 PM
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#11 | | Senior Member
Join Date: Feb 2006
Posts: 867
| Hey, welcome to the forums, I dont really think that I know you but I do someone who graduated from Lawrenceville a couple years back who you might know, he's probably 3or 4 years younger than you though. | |
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05-29-2006, 03:47 AM
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#12 | | Senior Member
Join Date: Dec 2004 Location: GREECE/Piraeus
Posts: 1,310
| Wellcome to the forum!!
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