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The Dreeland Gambit A foilist at my club has invented a new version of the sport. Essentially, it's foil with white lights only. Well, almost. I found it very amusing, and so I pass it on.
OK, she was weary of the Targetmaster ( I think that's the name ) electronic wall target trainer---you know, the one with 4 small square targets that you are supposed to hit when the light beside one of them comes on. We got it the week after Nationals. I predicted that everyone would be bored with it inside three weeks. Voila. 
Anyway, the problem, apparently, is that the electronic target board doesn't move. It's too easy, I guess. So, she had the idea of cutting 4 small squares out of the front of a t-shirt, in the same pattern as the target board, and putting the t-shirt on over her lamé. Presto! A moving, parrying, riposting Targetmaster.
Makes for a very long bout. Especially when the wearer's mask beard covers one of the squares.
Meh. Foilists. Use the Shift key, people! Keyboard manufacturers everywhere are ineffably saddened when you ignore what they made just for you!
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I've heard of something like this before.
On a related note, one of my coaches once threatened to make myself and a sparring partner fence each other with only the tip screws taped should we continue with our current level of bouting.
Horror. The solution to your problem is to fence another weapon.
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My club has used this as a training tool.
I suggest
1) Cut a hole in the back, for the embarrassment of if a flick lands there
2) Encourage her to make beeping noises or otherwise act like a targetspeed to trigger attacks.
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Epee variation When coaching our univ. club, I have been known to put one fencer or both in an epee bout in a foil lamé, which is hooked up to the ground line of the epee body cord. This tends to teach the fencers who insist that they "never hit the body, I always hit the arm!" the fallacy of their assertion. And it can be a nice moveable point control drill too.
It is also a nice way to get some of the cocky fencers to actually concentrate when fencing some of the newer fencers.
If I remember correctly, when I was in college, our club foilists actually had a competition amongst themselves using a variation on the t-shirt over the lamé. We had a competition ladder, and they made a t-shirt for each of the fencers on the ladder. The top ranked fencer's t-shirt was mostly holes (if they wore one at all), and each lower ranked fencer had fewer or smaller holes in their shirt, until the lowest ranked fencer only had a couple of medium sized holes in their shirt. They then ran a round robin pool of all the fencers. It was pretty even, if I remember correctly... Fun to watch too. "A well-instructed people alone can be permanently a free people" -- James Madison
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 Originally Posted by KD5MDK Encourage her to make beeping noises or otherwise act like a targetspeed to trigger attacks. I am SO going to do this at the next practice.  Use the Shift key, people! Keyboard manufacturers everywhere are ineffably saddened when you ignore what they made just for you!
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Ah Mon Dieu!!!!(In my best David Suchet aka Hercule Poirot) Originally Posted by Inquartata A foilist at my club has invented a new version of the sport. Essentially, it's foil with white lights only. Well, almost. I found it very amusing, and so I pass it on.
OK, she was weary of the Targetmaster ( I think that's the name ) electronic wall target trainer---you know, the one with 4 small square targets that you are supposed to hit when the light beside one of them comes on. We got it the week after Nationals. I predicted that everyone would be bored with it inside three weeks. Voila.
Anyway, the problem, apparently, is that the electronic target board doesn't move. It's too easy, I guess. So, she had the idea of cutting 4 small squares out of the front of a t-shirt, in the same pattern as the target board, and putting the t-shirt on over her lamé. Presto! A moving, parrying, riposting Targetmaster.
Makes for a very long bout. Especially when the wearer's mask beard covers one of the squares.
Meh. Foilists. Cough cough wheeze. Inquartata seems to be more than one user posting from the same account. Or is it just me... I'm pretty sure THIS poster is NOT a saber fencer. It's the gender that surprised me.
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Dude. Cut back on the pot JUST a little bit.  Use the Shift key, people! Keyboard manufacturers everywhere are ineffably saddened when you ignore what they made just for you!
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Just call me Steve Miller as long as i can call you my very own Gina Lollabrigida
Actually there's a tournament idea here. we could even make it a division sanctioned event.
Possible names?: Dreeland's Duel; Dreedogg's Fencing Challenge; Why did I get my B in Reno; etc.
Since we are cannibalizing t-shirts mayhaps we could get a tshirt company to sponsor us. "Dreeland's T's"
Or we can just call our customized overshirt a "Dreeland".
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Originally Posted by campb1pr When coaching our univ. club, I have been known to put one fencer or both in an epee bout in a foil lamé, which is hooked up to the ground line of the epee body cord. This tends to teach the fencers who insist Waaait isn't tha bad for the lamé?
Sounds like a nifty enough idea, I've fenced a few times people at the club (sabre) without a lame and with the only electrics a mask and manchete (how they hooked up the manchete to the body chord I have absolutely no clue).
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