06-19-2006, 06:59 PM
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#41 | | Senior Member
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Originally Posted by RebelFencer Sorry to threadjack, but since the issue of names lames was briefly touched on: Can you fence a NAC with a lame that doesn't have your name on it and just accept the red card per bout? I'm an epeeist and am considering fencing Div2/3 sabre at a NAC that's happening in my state and I don't have my own lame, so I was gonna borrow one. | Rebel,
Just put your name on your back leg.
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06-19-2006, 06:59 PM
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#42 | | Senior Member
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Originally Posted by RebelFencer Sorry to threadjack, but since the issue of names lames was briefly touched on: Can you fence a NAC with a lame that doesn't have your name on it and just accept the red card per bout? I'm an epeeist and am considering fencing Div2/3 sabre at a NAC that's happening in my state and I don't have my own lame, so I was gonna borrow one. | Dood,
Just get your name on your back leg and you can fence anything you want....
$20 bucks is cheaper than a lame + $20
edit: @##@ that Chiz beat me to it....
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06-19-2006, 07:01 PM
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#43 | | Senior Member
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| Ok,
Everyone from Tennessee say togather now.... Rebel did you hear that?
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06-19-2006, 07:03 PM
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#44 | | Senior Member
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| haha, but my knickers are sooo pretty. I don't want to mess them up. 
I hear you're coming with the memphis crew this Tuesday Larry, that'll be fun.
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06-19-2006, 07:21 PM
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#45 | | Senior Member
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Originally Posted by RebelFencer haha, but my knickers are sooo pretty. I don't want to mess them up.
I hear you're coming with the memphis crew this Tuesday Larry, that'll be fun. | If work does't intrude, I'm looking froward to some good fencing, at least my leg is working, not like B'ham.
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06-20-2006, 06:14 AM
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#46 | | Curmudgeon-in-Chief
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Originally Posted by Go? Fencing?
I fence on a school and local level. The only tournaments I've been to have been high school and local club level. I train novices, and most of the fencers in my college club are novices. Very few people I fence with have their names printed.
| Waugh, and you have so many fencers at the "high school and local club level" in your area that you can't tell people apart just from their body types, height, weight and postures? You are lucky to live in an area with such teeming multitudes of fencers! 
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06-20-2006, 10:33 AM
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#47 | | Sr. Spirits Inspector
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| In the continuing attempt to encourage thread drift:
Has anyone looked at socks as an "Identity Item" for a club? It seems to me that a patch is nice but socks really stand out. They really are inexpensive, people can choose to wear their colors or not and they are a really easy to build a sense of community in a club. Just a thought but I am surprised more clubs don't have custom colors like the universities and colleges do.
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PS: They are a great trading item for those national/international events. Heck why not Fencing.net colors!
PPS: I do understand that folks do this I am advocating that more do so.
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06-20-2006, 11:48 AM
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#48 | | Senior Member
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Originally Posted by rac In the continuing attempt to encourage thread drift:
Has anyone looked at socks as an "Identity Item" for a club? It seems to me that a patch is nice but socks really stand out. They really are inexpensive, people can choose to wear their colors or not and they are a really easy to build a sense of community in a club. Just a thought but I am surprised more clubs don't have custom colors like the universities and colleges do. | Actually, quite so, yes!
For my club, its especially important. Since its a sabre club, putting a patch on the rear arm doesn't quite work. Yes, I know we could put it on the rear leg, but, then when we were talking about that option, the idea of socks came up. We embraced that quite wholeheartedly, and went to a fencing socks vendor to get them to make some up with our club name on it.
Of course we also have a patch too, that many put on the rear leg. But the socks are our primary form of "team identifier."
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06-20-2006, 12:34 PM
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#49 | | Senior Member
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| Here is a link to our club photographs: you can see our socks! http://www.studentorg.umd.edu/fc/frames/index.html
They are two colored on each sock and four different colors total (all of our school colors!). It makes it very easy to pick out where all of your teamates are when you are in a large gym, even with over 100 fencers in a room I can still pick out the UMD fencers from several basketball courts away
Also our socks have been featured on ESPN.com  | 
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06-20-2006, 02:09 PM
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#50 | | Senior Member
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| Ya'll are the squids??? | |
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06-20-2006, 02:22 PM
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Originally Posted by seven6ty Ya'll are the squids??? | Why we have squids on our patches is a club secret, and you are not allowed to know until you have been subjected to appropriate amouts of haz(AHEM) indocternation. (Usually in the form of puns from the coach.)
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06-20-2006, 06:44 PM
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#52 | | Senior Member
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Originally Posted by Inquartata Waugh, and you have so many fencers at the "high school and local club level" in your area that you can't tell people apart just from their body types, height, weight and postures? You are lucky to live in an area with such teeming multitudes of fencers! |
lol.. actually there are quite a lot of us.. My school team for instance is over 60 fencers..... so at larger tournments with 100+ fencers (sure there are onyl 4 of these per year but still) .. no one with names or even fencing styles (most are "beginner style") socks... hair.... shoes.. help lol... | |
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06-21-2006, 12:05 AM
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#53 | | Question Game Queen
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| Thanks, Melihop.
Inq, when there are a bunch of freshman novices, for example, they can be rather hard to tell apart. Yes, height, body type, etc. help, but if I see a tall boy with curly hair and he's wearing red socks, I know that he's not my teammate, because he wears white socks. It's just another tag for identification. Even if the person is facing me, that's not always a help, since my eyes aren't so good that I can completely trust them to identify one person over another in a crowded, not-so-brightly-lit gym. I tend to have trouble recognising people anyway, so socks can be a great help. | |
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07-12-2006, 06:54 PM
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#54 | | Senior Member
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| So, did anyone get carded for wearing colored socks at summer nationals? | |
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07-12-2006, 07:01 PM
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Originally Posted by Timacheff So, did anyone get carded for wearing colored socks at summer nationals? | Not that I could see, and I saw a lot of colored socks. | |
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07-12-2006, 07:24 PM
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| No, but I thought about pointing it out on more than one occassion. 0:-)
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07-12-2006, 10:46 PM
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Originally Posted by Timacheff So, did anyone get carded for wearing colored socks at summer nationals? | Not that I saw.
Fencers from my club normally wear purple socks when competing. I think that all of our fencers were wearing purple socks during Nationals, and none of them were carded (at least, not on the days that I was fencing or watching). | |
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07-13-2006, 12:02 AM
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#58 | | Senior Member
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| "solid, light colour"...? hmmmm 
perhaps........
a pair of socks that are made of the same material as the............ DREADED PINK FUZZY??!?!? 
*runs away screaming...* 
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07-13-2006, 03:53 AM
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#59 | | Épéeist Hive Queen
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Originally Posted by WhipLash "solid, light colour... DREADED PINK FUZZY??!?!? | ' Cerise' isn't exactly a "light" colour. It's more of an eye-piercing, temporarily blinding colour.
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07-13-2006, 04:22 AM
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| I wore my F.F.F. (Federation Francaise de Football) socks, which have F.F.F. printed on the back, adidas logos, and red and blue stripes at the top and was ok.
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