09-07-2006, 01:16 PM
|
#1 | | Just Joined
Join Date: Sep 2006
Posts: 1
| I'm only 5, but I want to fence!
hi, I'm Riley and I love swords and I want to know how to take some classes in my area...Windsor, Colorado, near Fort Collins and Greeley. How much do classes cost? How old do you have to be? How big are the suits? and how heavy are the swords. If you could let me know I'll talk with my mom and see if I can start soon. Thanks, Riley Boy | 
|  | | And now for this message... |
| |
09-08-2006, 06:58 AM
|
#2 | | Senior Member
Join Date: Jan 2005 Location: Switzerland
Posts: 1,859
| Quote: |
Originally Posted by rileyboy hi, I'm Riley and I love swords and I want to know how to take some classes in my area...Windsor, Colorado, near Fort Collins and Greeley. How much do classes cost? How old do you have to be? How big are the suits? and how heavy are the swords. If you could let me know I'll talk with my mom and see if I can start soon. Thanks, Riley Boy | you're written language is excellent for a 5 yr old.....
Looks as if possibly you've got the talent to find all of the answers to your questions by surfing this site, just use the search function.
Good Luck, youngster Riley Boy.....
__________________
Beat it...Jab it...Stab it...FENCE IT!!!
***little t***Fiskebäckskil!*** | |
| | |
09-24-2006, 05:13 PM
|
#3 | | Senior Member
Join Date: Jul 2006 Location: Planet Vulcan/Castle Oblivion
Posts: 173
| Man, am I jealous! I wish I had started fencing when I was 5! I'd be so much better by now!  Oh well.
Good luck!
__________________
Friends come and go, but enemies accumulate.
To be loved is to be fortunate. To be hated is to have achieved distinction.
If love is the answer, could you rephrase the question? - Lily Tomlin
If I cannot swear in heaven, I shall not go there. - Mark Twain | |
| | |
09-25-2006, 02:11 AM
|
#4 | | Member
Join Date: Jun 2004
Posts: 46
| Quote: |
Originally Posted by rileyboy hi, I'm Riley and I love swords and I want to know how to take some classes in my area...Windsor, Colorado, near Fort Collins and Greeley. How much do classes cost? How old do you have to be? How big are the suits? and how heavy are the swords. If you could let me know I'll talk with my mom and see if I can start soon. Thanks, Riley Boy | geee... are you sure you're 5? if only I could type like that and use a computer well enough to find forums such as this when I was 5! 
- the uniforms arn't that heavy, but it can get hot an stuffy in them when you sweat. You can get uniforms and masks in different size - it would be quite amusing if it was one size fits all... Equipment is also expensive, and i suspect most clubs don't carry club gear they would fit the average 5 year old.
- the weapons vary in weight and length. Seeing as you're so young you would most likely start on a foil with a size 0 blade, which is lighter and shorter than full size blades.
- as for how old you have to be, this questions depends on various things and is different for everyone. As you wirte so well and clearly i'm sure you have the disipline to fence and not act dangerously with the weapons. but how tall are you? and more importanly can you find other people your size to fence with. Though size doesn't really matter when you get better at fencing, it's probably a good idea to start off and learn basics with people your size.
- as for where you can get lessons and how much they cost, i'm afraid i can't help you as i live in a land far far away.
I hope this helps. Good luck with it all. | |
| | |
09-25-2006, 04:42 AM
|
#5 | | Senior Member
Join Date: Jun 2004 Location: Japan
Posts: 1,025
| Riley boy, you should fence foil, because you seem smart for your age. Don't listen to epee fencers or sabre fencers because they will stifle your intellectual growth.
__________________
FOR THE LOVE OF GOD WON'T YOU BUY MY TACTICAL WHEEL!!!???? | |
| | |
09-25-2006, 03:43 PM
|
#6 | | Senior Member
Join Date: Oct 2003
Posts: 5,511
| But not the physical growth....
__________________
"I've seen things you people wouldn't believe. And from this side only! The flight of a half-man, half-bird. Dinosaurs nuzzling their young in pastures where strip malls should be. Cookies on dowels. All those moment, lost in time. Gone, like eggs off a hooker's stomach. Time to die" -Phil Ken Sebben
| |
| | |
09-25-2006, 05:04 PM
|
#7 | | Member
Join Date: Jul 2006 Location: CO
Posts: 56
| Hello Riley. I like your writing too. I also live in Colorado. It's a great state isn't it?
I'm not too far from Boulder,CO. It's South-West of Windsor. I go to a club there called Northern Colorado Fencers. It a really nice place to fence, and everybody there is pretty friendly. Gary Copeland is the head coach. Their phone number is (303) 443-6557. And here is the website of Northern Colorado Fencers. http://www.ncfencers.org/
They have a lot of children taking fencing classes. I think they have some equipment that could fit you.
You can tell your dad that if you take highway 25, and then turn right on highway 34, and keep going straight he can reach Boulder. He can also look on a map and I'm sure he can find it. I imagine it would take at about an hour or maybe a little less to get there. I think it's the one of the closest clubs to your town. I know it's a long drive so ask and beg your parents for their consent. 
I hope you find a good place to fence soon even if it's not at NCF!
__________________
=======================================
Better to fight for something than live for nothing.
George S. Patton
Last edited by Gamling; 09-25-2006 at 06:13 PM.
| |
| | |
09-25-2006, 07:29 PM
|
#8 | | Senior Member
Join Date: Jun 2004 Location: Japan
Posts: 1,025
| I heard Riley boy can already drive by himself.
__________________
FOR THE LOVE OF GOD WON'T YOU BUY MY TACTICAL WHEEL!!!???? | |
| | |
09-26-2006, 03:05 AM
|
#9 | | Curmudgeon-in-Chief
Join Date: Jul 2001 Location: Somewhere in your nightmares!
Posts: 23,164
| Hmm, is it possible Riley Boy has a ghostwriter? A parent or sibling, maybe?
Egad, you lot are suspicious!
__________________
Use the Shift key, people! Keyboard manufacturers everywhere are ineffably saddened when you ignore what they made just for you!
| |
| | |
09-26-2006, 05:25 AM
|
#10 | | Senior Member
Join Date: Jun 2004 Location: Japan
Posts: 1,025
| I see dead people.
__________________
FOR THE LOVE OF GOD WON'T YOU BUY MY TACTICAL WHEEL!!!???? | |
| | |
09-26-2006, 05:20 PM
|
#11 | | Senior Member
Join Date: Jul 2005 Location: Under the sea
Posts: 2,766
| Quote: |
Originally Posted by Grasshopper I see dead people. | We call their carcasses "Epeeists"
__________________
I AM the walrus
I'm not grumpy - I suffer from stupidity rage
| |
| | |
09-28-2006, 11:52 AM
|
#12 | | Senior Member
Join Date: Jul 2006 Location: Houma,Louisiana USA
Posts: 165
| Newbie
Welcome to the forum Riley I hope that you will grow in fencing.Be careful!
__________________
"Steel true/blade straight"
~Inscription on the gravestone of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle,by Robert Louis Stevenson~
"If you can't hit your friends with swords,who can you hit?"
-The University of Calgary Fencing Club 2002-
"Ye have feared the sword;and I will bring a sword upon you,saith the Lord God." Ez.11:8 B.C.
| |
| | | Thread Tools | | | | Display Modes |  Linear Mode | 
Posting Rules
| You may not post new threads You may not post replies You may not post attachments You may not edit your posts
HTML code is Off | | | 
Similar Threads | | Thread | Thread Starter | Forum | Replies | Last Post | | What is Fence-off? | BySword | Fencing Discussion | 7 | 09-06-2006 02:49 AM | | I Want To Fence!! | AllaidhSrad | Fencing Discussion | 33 | 07-18-2004 04:18 PM | | Why fence? | Dancer5050 | Water Cooler | 65 | 12-09-2003 06:58 PM | | You fence?! | Chobes | Fencing Discussion | 22 | 06-15-2003 05:04 AM | | To hot to Fence? | Jeeves | Discussion Archive | 26 | 08-16-2001 03:49 AM | All times are GMT -4. The time now is 06:09 AM. |
