08-25-2006, 08:44 AM
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#1 | | Just Joined
Join Date: Aug 2006
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| hello all... introducing myself...
Hey.... just wanted to give my hello's to you all, after almost doing it for ages i have just signed up with a fencing club and start in two weeks.. have been surfing around trying to get some basics etc., and came upon this site... haven't got a lot to offer at the moment (the sum-total of my fencing experience= two months ten years ago, although it was with an olympian).. but i loved it, can't believe i never came back to it until now, and can't wait to start.... (irish guy in london by the way... is this i mostly U.S. forum...? or a bit of a mix...?)
going into the club with an open mind as far as foil/epee etc...
which end of the sword do i hold again..... | 
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08-25-2006, 08:47 AM
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#2 | | Senior Member
Join Date: May 2006 Location: Here
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| Welcome back to fencing! Good luck, and let us know how you're progressing!
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08-25-2006, 09:02 AM
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#3 | | Épéeist Hive Queen
Join Date: Jul 2002 Location: Sweden
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| Well, with a name like that you're destined for épée.  
Anyway, welcome back to the sport! And yes, this is a US based forum. There's a UK forum run by Leon Paul at www.fencingforum.com.
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08-25-2006, 01:48 PM
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#4 | | Senior Member
Join Date: Jul 2006 Location: Houma,Louisiana USA
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Welcome to FND I hope that you will find all you need to find here.Enjoy your stay!
WordRider Yeaah! 
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"If you can't hit your friends with swords,who can you hit?"
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"Ye have feared the sword;and I will bring a sword upon you,saith the Lord God." Ez.11:8 B.C.
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08-25-2006, 05:48 PM
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#5 | | Senior Member
Join Date: Jul 2006 Location: Long Island
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Originally Posted by pravda which end of the sword do i hold again..... | Welcome to the forum and welcome back to sport!
As per your inquiry about if this is mostly a U.S. forum I'd say a majority of the posters are from the U.S. but there is definately a large contingent of people from all over the globe.
Personal pet peeve of mine (and many others) they're not "swords," they're "weapons."
But, please don't take that as a personal affront.
Welcome and enjoy!
__________________ Characteristically, I had been trying too hard, and remembered again that wonderful piece of advice given by a French thinker: Trouve avante de chercher--Valery, it was. Or maybe it was Picasso. There are times when the most practical thing to do is to lie down. | |
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08-26-2006, 03:20 PM
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#6 | | Curmudgeon-in-Chief
Join Date: Jul 2001 Location: Somewhere in your nightmares!
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Originally Posted by purpzeyFCLI Personal pet peeve of mine (and many others) they're not "swords," they're "weapons."
| Unless you're dealing with the TSA or a school bureaucracy, in which case they're "sports implements". :P
My salle ( in a university building ) has just decreed that we must keep our weapons concealed when not in use and cannot refere to them as "weapons". This after over 20 years of having no problems whatsoever with us ( to the point of scarcely deigning to acknowledge our existence ).
Wankers proliferate.
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08-30-2006, 02:30 AM
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Originally Posted by Inquartata Wankers proliferate. | Actually, Inq, people tend to become wankers when they don't have the option of proliferating.
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08-30-2006, 04:58 AM
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#8 | | Curmudgeon-in-Chief
Join Date: Jul 2001 Location: Somewhere in your nightmares!
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| They just proliferate by means other than reproduction. They are self-made.
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08-30-2006, 11:16 AM
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#9 | | Senior Member
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Originally Posted by Inquartata They just proliferate by means other than reproduction. They are self-made. | Ah, so THAT explains all the time spent in their rooms...
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"Technical excellence is the antecedant of tactical creativity." - Nat Goodhartz
But those things which belong neither to God nor to Caeser, feeleth free to writeth them off, for yea, they are deductable.
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09-06-2006, 06:22 AM
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#10 | | Senior Member
Join Date: Dec 2004 Location: GREECE/Piraeus
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| Wellcome to the forum and have fun.
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09-06-2006, 01:27 PM
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#11 | | Just Joined
Join Date: Jul 2006 Location: Savannah, GA
Posts: 9
| Welcome to the forum and the sport. I too am returning after a lengthy hiatus, and after a class last night, I am wondering what took me so darn long.
Cheers.
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