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My sig. other is not a fencer
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05-12-2006, 07:20 PM
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#21 | | Senior Member
Join Date: Feb 2006 Location: Reno, NV. Home of the Silver Blades
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| My wife and I fence each other on a regular basis. She's a foilist and I'm into epee. We both compete and goof around fencing each other in one or the other weapons. Because one of us is fencing off our main weapon it always stays fun.
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05-12-2006, 11:13 PM
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#22 | | Just Joined
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| My wife doesn't fence. But it would cool to have a spouse who could give me a good bout occasionally on the strip. Maybe in my next life...
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05-12-2006, 11:31 PM
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#23 | | Senior Member
Join Date: Sep 2003 Location: Mountain Home ID
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| How in the hel'' do you think we settle our arguments. Sabre's at DAWN it get really fun now since I have no legs but great on the parries.
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05-13-2006, 03:34 AM
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#25 | | Immortal
Join Date: Jul 2000 Location: Heidelberg, GE
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| I've never had a significant other who fenced sabre, but I think pretty much every decent female sabre fencer is sexy/attractive, for what it is worth.
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05-13-2006, 07:36 PM
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#26 | | Moderator
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Originally Posted by sabreur I've never had a significant other who fenced sabre, but I think pretty much every decent female sabre fencer is sexy/attractive, for what it is worth. | Around here, as the WWII song goes, "They're either too young or too old". Although some are in just the right age range, but taken. More or less.
But your thought is right on. | |
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05-14-2006, 12:41 AM
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#27 | | Senior Member
Join Date: Dec 2005 Location: Columbus, OH
Posts: 594
| Thank you for reminding me just how single I am.
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05-14-2006, 05:51 AM
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#28 | | Épéeist Hive Queen
Join Date: Jul 2002 Location: Sweden
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Originally Posted by TrainingDummy Thank you for reminding me just how single I am. | Seconded...
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05-14-2006, 06:11 AM
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#29 | | Senior Member
Join Date: May 2006 Location: Amsterdam New York
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| While I don't have a significant other it would be fun to fence her on the strip if I did!
I'd even do foil or saber just for the heck of it | |
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05-14-2006, 02:14 PM
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#30 | | Senior Member
Join Date: May 2003 Location: Arlington, VA
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| My boyfriend and I don't fence each other. Ever. This is easy to justify, because I fence sabre and he fences epee. If I ever fence epee, it's when he's not around.
On the other hand, my boy refuses to direct when I'm fencing. I'm not entirely sure why on that one.
Contrary to what everyone else has been saying, I love when my boyfriend is there to coach me during DEs. This may be because my boy is WIKKID SMAHT, and doesn't really say things in a tone of "this is what i think" but a tone of "you already know this, and this is just what AK would be saying were she here."
Also there's the part where I'm more calm in general when he's around, and I fence better when I'm calm.
Other fencing Significant Others have gone less well. Especially those that fenced sabre. I'm still not sure if it was the sabre personality that was the problem, or the fact that they fenced better than I. --- Recently, I fenced one of those exes, and it was kind of funny. He was getting more touches than I because he was so brutal, (in fact, the bout ended when he hit me so hard on the leg (remember, this is sabre) that I fell down)..... but I was fencing much better than him...... and he couldn't deal with that.
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05-14-2006, 02:17 PM
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#31 | | Senior Member
Join Date: Mar 2002 Location: NC
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| He's an epeeist -- do you really want him directing sabre?
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05-14-2006, 02:21 PM
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#32 | | Senior Member
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Originally Posted by greenchick He's an epeeist -- do you really want him directing sabre? | he'll never learn if he doesn't try : )
and besides, he's probably better at it than I am............
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05-14-2006, 02:59 PM
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I'm still not sure if it was the sabre personality that was the problem, or the fact that they fenced better than I
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05-14-2006, 03:04 PM
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#34 | | Immortal
Join Date: Jul 2000 Location: Heidelberg, GE
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Originally Posted by MyrddinsPrecint Other fencing Significant Others have gone less well. Especially those that fenced sabre. I'm still not sure if it was the sabre personality that was the problem, or the fact that they fenced better than I. --- Recently, I fenced one of those exes, and it was kind of funny. He was getting more touches than I because he was so brutal, (in fact, the bout ended when he hit me so hard on the leg (remember, this is sabre) that I fell down)..... but I was fencing much better than him...... and he couldn't deal with that. | I'm not sure whether I should launch into my normal rant about people who hit too hard, or my other normal rant about {good} sabre fencers being paragons of elegance, timing, etc., and greatly misunderstood by the crude epeeists and skittish foilists of the world, or express concern about your choices in men (or boys if you prefer) prior to your current beau. Anyone who hits someone in the leg with a sabre so hard that the person hit falls down should be directed to their local SCA heavy arms group...
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05-14-2006, 06:11 PM
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#35 | | Senior Member
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Originally Posted by sabreur I'm not sure whether I should launch into my normal rant about people who hit too hard, or my other normal rant about {good} sabre fencers being paragons of elegance, timing, etc., and greatly misunderstood by the crude epeeists and skittish foilists of the world, or express concern about your choices in men (or boys if you prefer) prior to your current beau. Anyone who hits someone in the leg with a sabre so hard that the person hit falls down should be directed to their local SCA heavy arms group... |
To be fair to him, he did manage to find some sort of nerve.... it wasn't that i fell down due to the blow, it was more that the leg didn't want to support weight for a while. I'm not actually sure if that's better.
By this time, he and I weren't really friends anymore, and he had no respect at all for me as a fencer. Which is really where the bigger problem was in the first place-- especially since his distance and timing were so bad at that point....
There have been some bad choices made. There is now a counsel of people who are given veto power over the people I decide to date. It's really for the best.
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05-14-2006, 06:14 PM
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Originally Posted by Zilverzmurfen Seconded... | Thirded! 
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05-14-2006, 06:21 PM
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Originally Posted by RebelFencer Thirded! | Fourthed! 
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#38 | | Just Joined
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| we weren't when we started... and she had been fencing a few years before I did. but I guess it was from us being both lefties... and the fact that she was really cute 
we both fence foil and she usually poses a very hard challenge to beat... as well as to the other guys in the team... this ain't no giddy girl-next-door when she's on the piste! | |
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05-14-2006, 09:34 PM
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#39 | | Senior Member
Join Date: Jul 2004 Location: New Zealand
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Originally Posted by D'Art Fourthed! | I'll continue. fifthed!
One of my ex's used to fence but I am so uber compeitive that he kinda got sick of it (he kept loosing *smirk*).
Another ex didn't fence and that was a disaster because he didn't even care about fencing  . He had to go and fast.
This could be why I'm so single...
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#40 | | Just Joined
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| Well, my boyfriend fences mostly epee while I fence mostly foil. We are both very very competetive and for us to fence, one would have to lose; which means someone will not be happy that night at home. We just kind of stick to our own weapons and leave it at that. | |
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