Hard hits to the neck -- no blood, but **** that hurts!

[Redblade]

Gotta love those injuries that leave you with nothing to show for it -- no blood, no black-and-blue bruises, no missing body parts ...

Like a hard attack (epee) that hits your neck in the bib, with enough force to knock your head back and makes it difficult to swallow afterward. Damn! Try to get some sympathy for that when you get home. "It really, really hurt, honey. See where it hit?" ... "Uhh, no." ... "You can't see it? A red mark? Anything?!"

My muscles are still knotted up.

[thud]

hahhaha

If you need a sport that'll leave something behind for sure, play some paintball or something. The public already thinks fencers are sissies anyway.

[IU_Epee]

The public already thinks fencers are sissies anyway.

Do they? One of the first questions I frequently get when people find out I fence is "Doesn't that hurt?"

[little_old_me]

Either that or, "How do you get the blood out of those white uniforms?"

[Goldgar]

Gotta love those injuries that leave you with nothing to show for it -- no blood, no black-and-blue bruises, no missing body parts ...

Like a hard attack (epee) that hits your neck in the bib, with enough force to knock your head back and makes it difficult to swallow afterward. Damn! Try to get some sympathy for that when you get home. "It really, really hurt, honey. See where it hit?" ... "Uhh, no." ... "You can't see it? A red mark? Anything?!"

My muscles are still knotted up.

I haven't seen my clubmate Damianip on this forum lately; if he were around online, I'd suggest he describe what a hard hit to the neck can do. Two days in the hospital, without a mark to show for it!

[Redblade]

I usually don't fret too much about potential injury -- it is, after all, a contact sport, and accidents happen. Best we can do is to reduce the odds.

But every so often I wonder what would happen if one of those tip "punches" hit square in the middle of the neck. Even with a thick bib.

Anyone?

[Peach]

Impromptu tracheotomy.

[thud]

The public already thinks fencers are sissies anyway.

Do they? One of the first questions I frequently get when people find out I fence is "Doesn't that hurt?"

I've heard that too. I guess it depends.

[telkanuru]

Either that or, "How do you get the blood out of those white uniforms?"

You don't really. Anyway, it's an intimidation factor

[Bryn Ralph]

As the Italians would say: "Lui chi non parrare, morire."

[Poulet]

As the English-speakers would say: "He who quoteth can't think of something useful to say."

[Redblade]

As the English-speakers would say: "He who quoteth can't think of something useful to say."

(ahem)

[Inquartata]

As the English-speakers would say: "He who quoteth can't think of something useful to say."

He says, ironically paraphrasing Dorothy Sayers. ( "A facility for quotation covers the absence of original thought". )

I wonder if these folks "couldn't think of anything useful to say"?

I shall never be ashamed of citing a bad author if the line is good. Seneca, (5 BC - 65 AD)


A thought is often original, though you have uttered it a hundred times. Oliver Wendell Holmes (1809 - 1894)

Every quotation contributes something to the stability or enlargement of the language. Samuel Johnson (1709 - 1784)

The wisdom of the wise, and the experience of ages, may be preserved by quotation. Benjamin Disraeli (1804 - 1881)

When a thing has been said and well, have no scruple. Take it and copy it. Anatole France (1844 - 1924)

By necessity, by proclivity, and by delight, we all quote. Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1888)

When I quote others I do so in order to express my own ideas more clearly. Michel de Montaigne (1533–1592)

[annacattiva]

As the Italians would say: "Lui chi non parrare, morire."

For those non-Italian speakers out there: Him who doesn't to parry, to die.

Chi non para muore. He who doesn't parry dies.

[telkanuru]

Inq, you forgot the great Tom Lehrer:

"Plagiarize,
Let no one else's work evade your eyes,
Remember why the good Lord made your eyes,
So don't shade your eyes,
But plagiarize, plagiarize, plagiarize -
Only be sure always to call it please 'research'."

[KD5MDK]

I should develop an alternate identity as a Russian Epee Coach named Lobachevsky.

[teamusaepee]

I usually don't fret too much about potential injury -- it is, after all, a contact sport, and accidents happen. Best we can do is to reduce the odds.

But every so often I wonder what would happen if one of those tip "punches" hit square in the middle of the neck. Even with a thick bib.

Anyone?

I know. Another fencer and I were battling for the top 8 in epee at the Longhorn last year and she happened to hit me dead on in the throat. I couldn't breathe/talk for about 15 sec and all I remember thinking was "I will NOT go down at a section tournament!!!" I'd just rather it be at the finals of the Olympics or something with a little more glory. Of course, even more I'd rather it didn't happen at all and win the gold medal instead.

Anyway, I've been hit in the neck lots of times pretty hard, but never straight on the weakest part of my throat (= trachea!) like that.

[kilo_foxtrot]

"Hanging is too good for a man who makes puns; he should be drawn and quoted." -Fred Allen

I spent a practice or two over the past few weeks fencing with a young foilist who needed to pick up sabre for the Empire State Games. On one of our first bouts, the bib stopped the sabre tip she had thrusted right beneath my Adam's apple. Regardless, that was not a happy feeling at all. (Except, of course, for the part where I found I could still breathe and swallow.)

Throat shots like that suck.

[Fencing Jesus]

Throat shots like that suck.

Jesus Remembers: A spear wound in your side is no walk in the park either.

[kilo_foxtrot]

Jesus Remembers: A spear wound in your side is no walk in the park either.

I bet... but a good ref would probably card someone for that.