You Know You're a Fencer-Part 2

[Sabresque]

[quote]Originally posted by Scaramouche:
<strong>Last night as I was about to fall asleep the sound of the scoring boxes starting ringing in my head and, annoying as it is, I actually fell asleep to it! Does this make me a fencer or a looneytic? </strong><hr></blockquote>

As I've heard someone else say on this board... Pavlov's dogs haven't got anything on fencers!

[Zelda]

Leftymutantchild,
I CAN RELATE!!!!!! Except that I was around b4 they changed the lights so I had to drill myself OUT of green is good!

You know you are a fencer when you see any sort of sword and start drooling and immeadately assess the best way to handle the thing.

You know you are a fencer when the only reason to even THINK about starting a pentatholon club is becuase fencing is involved.

You know the addresses of all the major fencing suppliers in Greater London and can get to their web pages without even thinking.

[Swordsman]

One of my (female) friends tried to poke me in the side this morning, roughly low seven (I'm ticklish). Without thinking, I made a perfect parry to sixth with my hand, then brought it back down and riposted to her eight, poking her back and making her squeal. Even had my hand pronated correctly!

[Purple Fencer]

[quote]Originally posted by Swordsman:
<strong>One of my (female) friends tried to poke me in the side this morning, roughly low seven (I'm ticklish). Without thinking, I made a perfect parry to sixth with my hand, then brought it back down and riposted to her eight, poking her back and making her squeal. Even had my hand pronated correctly!</strong><hr></blockquote>

Oh, that's FUNNY!!!!! Wish I'd been a fly on the wall for that one!


Note to self: Do NOT attack Swordsman's low line.

[Shadow Fencer]

YES!!! I'm glad someone resurrected this thread!!

You know you're a fencer ......when you fall asleep with a vision of fencing an opponent

and you find out one of your fencing buddies does the same thing

and you wake your significant other out of a sound sleep because you executed a jump forward lunge in dream but end up kicking your significant other in the "you know where"!

[sallearmourer]

you have just spent an hour kneeling on the floor straightening little kids' feet in the basic position and the on guard position.

the first thing you look for after moving is the local club and if there isn't one, you start one.

When all your socks are white and knee high.

The first thing you do when logged on you come to this site.

God I know i am spending too much time on this board. I don't have to look at my password anymore.


Sallearmourer
Tim

[DJ Apostrophe]

[quote] You know you're a fencer ......when you fall asleep with a vision of fencing an opponent

and you find out one of your fencing buddies does the same thing

and you wake your significant other out of a sound sleep because you executed a jump forward lunge in dream but end up kicking your significant other in the "you know where"!

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Shadow... I can TOTALLY relate...
the other night my girlfriend was laying in bed reading (also a fencer), I layed down with her and began to drift off to sleep... right before i fell asleep in that mid conciousness / not quite so concious state I began to dream. I dreamt that I was on strip with an opponent, not fencing yet, but on strip ready to begin the bout, and from behind me I heard someone say hi to me. I turned around to return the greeting and on returning my gaze to my opponent he had hurled his epee in a javelin like manner at me... my reaction to this was a parry four... unfortunately the parry four went right into my girlfriend's back!!! ... she was none to happy... after I explained what happened she just kind of shook her head at me and went back to reading her book... oops

[lochinvar]

When you are watching Willie Wonka and your kids turn to you and say, "Dad, the Oomp-Loompas look just like you in your whites!"

[Zelda]

When you look at your timetable for the next five weeks realise that there has to be another 8 hours in the day to even think about fencing and start planning an assult on the Greenwich Meridian to slow down the clock.

[sallearmourer]

When you decide to settle your marital conflicts with SABRES (Both are Fencers). Watch out for pool tables!!! <img src="graemlins/crap.gif" border="0" alt="[Crap]" />


sallearmourer

[Catlady]

These two may just be an indication of not having a life, but anyway. . . :0

When you realize, and freely admit, that going to fencing IS your social life.

You look forward to a nice, quiet Saturday afternoon alone with your equipment (in order to handle various armory issues) <img src="graemlins/freak4.gif" border="0" alt="[Freak2]" />

[Caithdein]

You mean to say theres a social life other than fencing?

really??

[Gav]

When your girlfriend introduces herself by saying "Hi! I'm the fencing widow..."

When Mondays are appealing cos' it's the 1st day you can start fencing again!

[Shadow Fencer]

and when your hubby introduces himself to others as "the fencing widower"!

Really, he started doing this relatively recently and it's funny!

and now he has a monologue mocking me about how I talk about my fencing practices.... and I think it's really funny!

[Jeeves]

You know your a fencer if...

you have ever had a fly or bee in your house and gone after it with your sabre or foil instead of a fly swatter.

Oh yeh, it took me eight cuts and two parries, but I got that yellow jacket without destroying anything in the house... If you don't count potted plants, and it only lost one measley leaf.

[SäbelFechter]

When you're watching a movie or tv show and a sword fight breaks out and find yourself evaluating the actors' technique.

[Catlady]

Saebel Fechter,
First another German speaker on the board, all right!

Second, LOL at the last comment. I was doing that while watching the commericals for Man in the Iron Mask. There's a point where one fencer turns his back on his opponent to do some kind of spinning attack, and I announced how stupid that would be as, if I were the opponent I would have just stabbed him in the back.

[SäbelFechter]

Hi CatLady!

Sprechen Sie Deutsch? Nein, Fraulein! I regret to inform you that I'm not a German speaker. Did take a beginner's course at university, but don't remember much from it other than some words, a few phrases, and how to count to 10. I've also picked up some German from World War 2 movies. Anyway, I chose that name just for something different (I looked up the words in my English/German dictionary).

Auf Weidersehen!

[Swordsman]

Ich spreche ein bissschen (yes, that's the correct spelling) Deutsch. Catlady, wie viele Deutsch sprechen Sie? Ich hab' leider nur drei Jahren Deutsch gelernt.

[Catlady]

Ich spreche auch nur ein bisschen Deutsch. Ich habe Deutsch als Nebenfach auf Universitat gemacht, aber es war schon vier jahren. I've been told that my grammar needs work and I know my accent is horrible. If I actually went to Germany I'd probably get along all right. Partially through the universal language of "grunt and point" and partially through my knowledge of German. I don't really know any technical terms e.g. fencing words other than Fechter(in)=fencer, or medical terms. I speak it better than I write it and flatter myself that I read pretty well so long as I have a good dictionary handy, but I've never been there--although I've had the good fortune to know a few native German speakers--and that along with some other factors means that having done a German minor I should speak and write it better than I do. Still it was fun getting to the point where I could see similarities between the roots of German and English words.

I've done a little bit of translation and am trying to translate a book--a novel for young adults for the most part--that we read in a class I had, in an attempt to keep my skills from utterly atrophying. I will say one thing: never again will I complain about awkward translations from any language. It's one thing to understand what the author is saying, but something entirely different to make it sound elegant in another language and still remain true to the author's intentions.

That's enough for now.
Bis Spater

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