FIE adopts USFA non-combativity rule ;)

[Fechter1]

So if my opponent and I stand at regular distance and hold our blades together, we cannot be called for non-combativity since we avoid #2 and #3? Even if we stand like that for the entire three periods of a DE bout? Awesome.

I can't wait for someone to try this on the international circuit (as protest to some rule maybe), and the see RR's inevitable overreaction, like shortening the strip to 6 meters or something similarly idiotic.

[edew]

Makes for stellar television, doesn't it.

-B

I remember watching, as a kid, the overhyped Ali vs Foreman (or Frazier vs Foreman or whoever vs whatever) where the two boxers just circle around each other and maybe throw a jab or two for the whole time. For the first few rounds, one might think they're just scoping each other out. But by the 14th round or so, they're still circling and you gotta wonder, "gee, I could have done my math homework instead..."

Sugar Ray Leonard was a much more exciting boxer, until he got hit a few times that made him flinch. Then he got too chicken.