12-30-2000, 07:00 PM
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#1 | | Member
Join Date: Nov 2000 Location: Enid, OK, U.S.A.
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| new year's resolutions... You knew we had to have a topic on this one. Okay...new year's resolutions...fencing style. Let's wrack our brains and come up with the best we can do.
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"Quemadmodum gladius neminem occidit, occidentis telum est."
Latin: "A sword never kills anybody; it is a tool in the killer's hand."
-Seneca, "Letters to Lucilius"
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12-31-2000, 02:29 AM
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#2 | | Senior Member
Join Date: Feb 1999 Location: Australia - various
Posts: 2,756
| My NY resolution fencing style,
Well I would tell you BUT it would probably jinx it, suffice to say it has to do with WINNING!!!
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12-31-2000, 11:30 AM
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#3 | | Senior Member
Join Date: Aug 2000 Location: Chicago, IL, USA
Posts: 173
| I promise to go for the simple attacks rather than those flicks.
I resolve to take the blade of an opponent who's reach is greater than mine, lest I impale myself on his extension.
I resolve to test my weapons the night before each tournament. |
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12-31-2000, 12:23 PM
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#4 | | Senior Member
Join Date: Dec 1999 Location: NJ, USA
Posts: 1,166
| To keep this from happening any more:
This is my U-rated weapon arm after an evening of encounters with some B-rated épéeists.
Paolo
[This message has been edited by damianip (edited 12-31-2000).]
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12-31-2000, 02:54 PM
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#5 | | Senior Member
Join Date: Sep 2000 Location: North Highlands, CA
Posts: 176
| OMFG thats why i dont fence epee! i never come out of a saber or foil bout like that!
oh and i'll try to stay in position (no more low-line at least not all the time) and i wont always cut to the exact same place everytime (gaurd)
and i'll stop sending my friend the i-love you virus under diferent names
[This message has been edited by saberkid (edited 12-31-2000).]
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12-31-2000, 08:28 PM
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#6 | | Member
Join Date: Jul 2000 Location: Australia
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| Hmm . . that happened to me, but on my leg. It was quite pretty.
I resolve not to gloat when I beat my friend in sabre 
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01-01-2001, 01:00 PM
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#7 | | Senior Member
Join Date: Aug 2000 Location: Chicago, IL, USA
Posts: 173
| I won't drink as much as I did on New Year's Eve.
Man, It was probably fun when I was doing it, but the result after about six hours of sleep is definitely too painful to be worth anyone's fun. |
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01-01-2001, 01:05 PM
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#8 | | Member
Join Date: Dec 2000
Posts: 47
| I resolve not to scrimp on my cardio warm-ups.
I resolve to observe my opponents more carefully, and adjust my style accordingly.
I resolve not to get distracted by outside forces when I'm on the piste.
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"You can beat me, you can bind me, but you can't touch me!
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01-02-2001, 07:35 AM
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#9 | | Member
Join Date: Jul 2000 Location: Omaha, NE, USA
Posts: 50
| I resolve to be able to fix my weapon, ALL BY MYSELF! I would resolve not to break it in the first place, but I think I should at least be realistic.
I resolve to do my exersices every single day so my muscles (little more than rubber bands) don't atrophy and then hurt like hell during practice.
As for bruises - I once had a nice matching set on my chest. One big purple and yellow one above the breast protector and one big black and green one below the breast protector. And I was fencing foil! I get more bruises in foil than I've EVER gotten in epee.
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01-03-2001, 12:39 PM
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#10 | | Senior Member
Join Date: Jun 2000 Location: St. Louis, Missouri
Posts: 167
| My resolutions:
1. From now on, when I attack, I will have a plan B and will keep my options open enough to execute it.
2. I will maintain my en garde position longer and will not be suckered by so many feints.
3. I will pay more attention to distance. This follows #1 too.
4. I will not measure my performance against fencers who are 20 years younger than me with twice as much experience.
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01-03-2001, 01:46 PM
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#11 | | Member
Join Date: Nov 2000 Location: Enid, OK, U.S.A.
Posts: 53
| Resolve: That I will listen to my instincts more, and that voice in my head less.
That I will not make a big deal when I miss any easy point.
That I will always be ready to fence and kill, kill, kill, as is my destiny (hehe)  .
That I will realize new year's resolutions are things I will TRY to achieve, but in the long run, don't really expect to keep. ugh.
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01-04-2001, 01:10 PM
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#12 | | Just Joined
Join Date: Apr 2000 Location: CA
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| My New Year's resolution is to clean the rust off of my weapons and step back onto the piste. |
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01-08-2001, 04:37 PM
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#13 | | Senior Member
Join Date: Dec 2000
Posts: 577
| That arm is terrible. Stop fencing epee & go to foil. |
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01-09-2001, 11:06 AM
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#14 | | Moderator
Join Date: Aug 2000 Location: Scotland
Posts: 4,547
| My New years resolutions are the same as last year (maybe I'll do them this year  ).
1. Win more tourneys ( the bigger ones)
2. Fence on the European Continent.
3. Lose the belly - beome superfit (fat chance  ) |
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01-10-2001, 06:53 AM
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#15 | | Senior Member
Join Date: Aug 2000 Location: California
Posts: 229
| Actually get a hit or two on those top-20-in-the-country fencers! (right now, I think as my arm is going forward they can get five touches on me.)
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