Ballet

[three_hundred_fifty_five]

</font><blockquote><font size="1" face="Helvetica, Arial">quote:</font><hr /><font size="2" face="Helvetica, Arial">Originally posted by edew:
<strong>I took a beginning ballet class in college, hoping to stretch my already tightening muscles. Didn't do me a bit of good. But had a good time staring at other women's crotches. </strong></font><hr /></blockquote><font size="2" face="Helvetica, Arial">Ah carumba, is this the real edew? A crotch viewing maniac? <img border="0" title="" alt="[Eek!]" src="eek.gif" />

[touche turtle]

I believe dancing in general and fencing do go hand in hand. It has something to do with rhythm and tempo, both which are important in fencing.

Maestro Ed Richards is a FANTASTIC ballroom dancer, if anyone ever gets a chance to cut-the-rug with him. Doing the Waltz with him is like taking a walk on a cloud and I seem to fence better afterwards too!

[Mergs]

Considering Ed was a professional dancer as well as a fencer, go figure!

I agree with Touche about dancing in general being good for fencing. At the time I was learning to fence, I was also taking ballet and modern dance (I can hear those of you who know me laughing, STOP IT! For those who don't, short and squat don't really fit the ballet dancer image). What I found it did do, was improve my balance and add smoothness to my foot work. If you do pairs type dancing (real dancing, not Clutch and Grab)(waltz, polka, two-step, foxtrot, tango, etc) it then gives you the lead-follow appreciation of a fencing phrase, as well as movement, balance and smoothness. But like anything else, it takes lots of practice. Let's face it guy and gals, no one wants to dance with a klutz!

[D'Artagnan1673]

WARNING!!!!!! Do not mention this post at your salle' as if you are considering taking up ballet. Your girlfriend who watches you fence won't let you live it down all night and your clubmates will flutter up and down the strip mocking you.

[schlager7]

Actually, Mergs, I wasn't laughing. I was a lighting designer in my younger days and derived no small amount of my income from dance companies. I also frequently was allowed to sit in on their classes. Great opportunity for exercise when you know you'll spend much of the rest of the day sitting, making notes, in the back of a theatre.

[Mergs]

Schlaeger,

I wasn't doing it for exercise! I was there to try and get a date! <img border="0" title="" alt="[Eek!]" src="eek.gif" />

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</font><blockquote><font size="1" face="Helvetica, Arial">quote:</font><hr /><font size="2" face="Helvetica, Arial">Originally posted by D'Artagnan1673:
<strong>WARNING!!!!!! Do not mention this post at your salle' as if you are considering taking up ballet. Your girlfriend who watches you fence won't let you live it down all night and your clubmates will flutter up and down the strip mocking you.</strong></font><hr /></blockquote><font size="2" face="Helvetica, Arial">That'll learn ya.

1. It probably helped thier footwork anyway.
2. If you decide to take up ballet, you will be handling women instead of talking to them. (That'll learn your girl, she'll love watching you holding other girls in ways even you haven't possibly imagined)
3. Dancers make better fencers anyway, because thier balance and timing is better.

[KL2]

Ballet I guess could create a more flexible, well timed fencer. Unfortunately from what I have been told, it is something you have to continue as this new found set of strengths is lost quite easilly.
Although one of my fencing coaches quite often has us doing footwork that consists of a fair few ballet moves which can be quite fun to do and watch.
Unfortunately for the males of this world, anybody who found out that you did ballet would forever have to carry the mental limit of you in a pair of tights or a nice pink thing. Not good!

Ballet has never been something that I want to try, but I guess that with a fair few other sports to commit to, I would not have the time to fully gain from taking part in it.
Kat x
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[Thaddeus]

yeah i think the whole thing that ballet is like fencing is true i have been thinking about taking ballet since i started fencing last year, but its a little weird having a 17 year old all of a sudden join a ballet class but who knows i think i might still try it ........... but not tell any one i know <img border="0" title="" alt="[Wink]" src="wink.gif" />

[D'Artagnan1673]

Good idea, you saw what happened to me!

[Zelda]

Risposte, U R on about a dance if you make the UK... as for where Oz is, take a globe, find the US, then travel over the international date line to a very large Island Called Australia, colloquilly known as Ozzieland.

[counter riposte]

Z-
Oh, Auzzie Land.... got it.

Unfortunatly, the word OZ brings about pictures of Judy Garland, a scarecrow, a lion and a tin man. Somehow picturing going to fantasy land is not so bad as one might imagine.

[Mergs]

OOOOOOHHHH!

Ozzieland, Ozzie
Melbourne, Osbourne

Coincidence!?!?!?!? <img border="0" title="" alt="[Wink]" src="wink.gif" />

<small>[ 07-19-2002, 05:15 PM: Message edited by: Mergs ]</small>

[Zelda]

Though Melbourne seems to be where all the decent fencers are!

[135711]

eric, you must be joking, you must be on drugs, what is wrong with you, do you expect to win your next bout, how dare you, take that off, fix it, go to your room, do thirty pushups, do 50 pullups, how dare you again.