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No, we're too competetive
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My sig. other is not a fencer
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05-15-2006, 02:11 AM
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#41 | | Just Joined
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| Yes, my husband and I fence. We are both extraordinarily competitive (even with each other) but still generally manage to accept a loss with relatively good grace (well, he does, and he tends to lose more often). Probably because we value the challenge each presents to the other. But it also helps that he is very comfortable in his own skin and doesn't have a problem losing to a woman. As of 6 months ago, he is also my coach - an arrangement which to date is working (surprisingly) well - although it hasn't been fully tested on the international cirucit as yet. | 
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05-15-2006, 03:38 AM
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#42 | | Senior Member
Join Date: Dec 2004 Location: GREECE/Piraeus
Posts: 1,310
| At previews days when I had start to fence I and some friends of mine we fence with apointment exept the trainng in the club.
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05-15-2006, 07:16 AM
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#43 | | Member
Join Date: Feb 2006 Location: Czech Republic
Posts: 88
| I do fence my sig. other. + he is my coach. We get along really well even though once in a while, I have a day when I get grumpy because of losing against him... Quote: |
Originally Posted by ebonylevin 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... | But you were right! my ex didnīt care either, good I let him go, because now I am happy. So, all you singles, donīt despair!  | |
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05-15-2006, 09:54 AM
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#44 | | Senior Member
Join Date: Dec 2005 Location: Kansas
Posts: 137
| As WonderWoman's significant other, I should probably post, eventually. Most of what everyone says is close to the truth with us, but in our respective weapon, we are both -coaches-. So, me fencing her in foil is not a bright idea, and her fencing me in epee just ends up in me losing a bout in epee.  | |
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05-15-2006, 01:36 PM
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#45 | | Senior Member
Join Date: Apr 2001 Location: Houston/Galveston, Texas, USA
Posts: 489
| I would have no problem with it, but my wife refuses to fence me. I am 5'10", she is 5'3". As a college fencer she got tagged with a nickname that is the same as a perennial Christmas ballet... 
So she won't fence me...
Nowadays, she fences less often and mostly sabre. I mostly fence foil these days.
We were once both in an epee competition.
Wouldja believe it?
We tied for third!  | |
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05-15-2006, 02:40 PM
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#46 | | Moderator
Join Date: Feb 2005 Location: Austin, TX
Posts: 10,177
| Should have requested a fence off. | 
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05-15-2006, 03:34 PM
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#47 | | Senior Member
Join Date: Apr 2001 Location: Houston/Galveston, Texas, USA
Posts: 489
| NOT ON YOUR LIFE!
I couldn't have gotten that outcome if I had tried. It was perfect. | |
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05-16-2006, 12:51 AM
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#48 | | Just Joined
Join Date: Mar 2006
Posts: 9
| I love fencing my husband - he always wins but it is always so much fun! He coaches me too. Because he knows me so well he knows when to push me hard, when to change it up and, just how to get me motivated (  .
I know it is harder for him to coach me than it is for me to take lessons and fence him! | |
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05-16-2006, 02:57 AM
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#49 | | Senior Member
Join Date: Jul 2005 Location: Austin, TX
Posts: 376
| As KD5MDK's significant other, we do fence - it's how we met! It was about six months in that I saw the light of sabre. Only one major difficulty in the whole time, and a few discussions of personal preference
That said, sabre men are just as well appreciated 
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05-16-2006, 04:04 AM
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#50 | | Immortal
Join Date: Jul 2000 Location: Heidelberg, GE
Posts: 5,454
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Originally Posted by schlager7 ...she is 5'3". As a college fencer she got tagged with a nickname that is the same as a perennial Christmas ballet... | Ooooofffff! Took me a second, because I was thinking a petite woman might be called "Sugarplum" or something....
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05-18-2006, 07:17 AM
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#51 | | Just Joined
Join Date: May 2006 Location: San Diego, CA
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| My SO isn't a fencer, but she and I will be taking a beginning foil class together. I'm an experienced epeeist, but I figure I could always use the extra footwork and exercise. She tried fencing once and enjoyed it, but found the epee too heavy. She already comes to most of my fencing meets so we might as well get her behind a mask and having fun too (if she ends up liking it). | |
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05-18-2006, 01:56 PM
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#52 | | Moderator
Join Date: Feb 2005 Location: Austin, TX
Posts: 10,177
| Just remember that if foil doesn't appeal to her, sabres are just as light and WS is the fastest growing part of the sport (I imagine). | |
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05-18-2006, 02:33 PM
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#53 | | Just Joined
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Originally Posted by KD5MDK Just remember that if foil doesn't appeal to her, sabres are just as light and WS is the fastest growing part of the sport (I imagine). | Good point, though I don't think her temerpment really fits in with sabre (she's a librarian). I think foil is a good choice because she is very rules oriented (foil has all that confusing RoW stuff) and it's traditionally a good weapon to start in. Assuming she likes fencing, I will offer to expose her to all three weapons, though once people understand the sport well enough they usually know which weapon is for them. Personally, I'd love it if she eventually switched to epee so we could practice together, but I really want to avoid pressuring her. Some people do not like competing in the same sport as their SOs, and if that's the case with my GF then having her in a different weapon makes sense.
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05-18-2006, 02:46 PM
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#54 | | Senior Member
Join Date: Mar 2002 Location: NC
Posts: 205
| I dunno -- I know some pretty vicious librarians!
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05-20-2006, 12:37 AM
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#55 | | Senior Member
Join Date: Jul 2003 Location: Carlsbad, CA
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Originally Posted by Zanthyna Good point, though I don't think her temerpment really fits in with sabre (she's a librarian). | Heh. I'm an English professor, and I fence sabre.
We bookish types can be pretty ferocious. | |
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05-20-2006, 02:23 AM
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#56 | | Member
Join Date: May 2006 Location: oregon
Posts: 51
| simple answer to this one......
noooooo.....
a sabre would fit her hand all too well....
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05-20-2006, 06:27 PM
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#57 | | Just Joined
Join Date: May 2006 Location: San Diego, CA
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Originally Posted by Ordway Heh. I'm an English professor, and I fence sabre.
We bookish types can be pretty ferocious. | I'm not trying to discourage her from fencing sabre, I'm just not sure if she has the necessary levels of homicidal mania.  And while we've all encountered the stereotypical ruler wielding, knuckle busting librarian, she is not one of them. Still, no one will ever really know how somone will fence until we put a weapon in his/her hand.
Now if I can only get her to say "Don't you know the Dewey Decimal system?" with a thick Austrian accent.
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05-20-2006, 10:17 PM
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#58 | | Moderator
Join Date: Feb 2005 Location: Austin, TX
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| The Bookinator? | |
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05-20-2006, 10:41 PM
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#59 | | Just Joined
Join Date: May 2006 Location: San Diego, CA
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Originally Posted by KD5MDK The Bookinator? | Conan the Librarian from 'Weird Al' Yankovic's movie UHF (a spoof on Conan the Barbarian). 
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05-21-2006, 08:42 PM
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#60 | | Senior Member
Join Date: Sep 2004
Posts: 634
| I'm gonna have to disagree with Noahz. You guys say that coaching a girlfriend was a nightmare but fencing them was fun- it was a lose-lose situation with my ex. She refused to listen to my coaching on the grounds of "I hate it when you tell me what to do." Then, she wouldn't fence with me either, because she got pissed off that I was "taking it easy" on her....even though she got even MORE pissed off when I didn't, because "I don't learn anything when you fence for real."
My current girlfriend actually likes taking lessons from me, since she has this crazy idea that I know what I'm doing, and will actually listen when I tell her something. She doesn't really like to fence with me, though, since she doesn't like to hit me in the head. We've only been together for 4 months, I'm sure she'll get to like it as time goes on.
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