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Foil
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Epee
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Sabre
|    | 20 | 31.25% | 
04-02-2007, 11:56 PM
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#1 | | Just Joined
Join Date: Mar 2007 Location: United States
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| Foil, Epee, or Sabre
What type of fencing weapon do you use? Foil, Epee, or Sabre?
Last edited by Fencer987; 04-03-2007 at 12:06 AM..
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04-03-2007, 12:01 AM
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#2 | | Senior Member
Join Date: Jan 2003 Location: Charlottesville VA
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| Yes. 
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04-03-2007, 12:03 AM
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#3 | | Senior Member
Join Date: Mar 2005 Location: London, UK/Providence, RI
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| Oh god...not again...
Foil. Cos it rocks. and Alberto Nadi agrees. But please, lets not let this digress into another "my weapon is better than your weapon" thread. | |
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04-03-2007, 12:20 AM
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#4 | | Le Picador
Join Date: Mar 2006 Location: Madison, WI
Posts: 3,250
| Poll is flawed, fencing implies it's not epee or saber.
I compete with foil, but I use all three: foil, saber, epee, in that order of frequency. | |
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04-03-2007, 02:11 AM
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#5 | | Senior Member
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Originally Posted by FoilyDeath  But please, lets not let this digress into another "my weapon is better than your weapon" thread. | Yeah. That's what the Introduction forum is for. | |
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04-03-2007, 07:56 AM
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#6 | | Senior Member
Join Date: Jun 2005
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| I use both foil and sabre for yard work.
I fence epee. 
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04-03-2007, 08:06 AM
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#7 | | Senior Member
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Originally Posted by Sciurus-Rex This poll needs a multiple-answer option... | Eh... it has a multiple-answer option!  | |
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04-03-2007, 08:22 AM
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#8 | | Le Picador
Join Date: Mar 2006 Location: Madison, WI
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| It figures. He's an epeeist. | |
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04-03-2007, 04:48 PM
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#9 | | Member
Join Date: Mar 2007 Location: NH, US
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| Foil.
...woot.
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04-04-2007, 07:48 AM
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#10 | | Senior Member
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Originally Posted by Fencer987 What type of fencing weapon do you use? Foil, Epee, or Sabre? | The answer is: "Football sucks."
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04-04-2007, 07:56 AM
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#11 | | Curmudgeon Emeritus
Join Date: Jul 2001 Location: Somewhere in your nightmares!
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Originally Posted by Stranger In Black Foil.
...woot. | Sabre.
...Zoot. And her companions.
Can't I have just a little peril? 
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04-04-2007, 11:27 AM
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#12 | | Senior Member
Join Date: Oct 2005 Location: Atlanta, GA
Posts: 214
| This poll is flawed... no Lancet! | |
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04-04-2007, 01:55 PM
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#13 | | Senior Member
Join Date: Oct 2005 Location: Pittsburgh, PA (and occasionally Berkeley, CA)
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| Real men fight with scarves. | |
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04-04-2007, 02:28 PM
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#14 | | Feline Groovy
Join Date: Aug 2004 Location: Tidewater VA
Posts: 810
| Rapier and rubber chicken! | |
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04-04-2007, 02:32 PM
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#15 | | Senior Member
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Originally Posted by VorpalCat Rapier and rubber chicken! | There should be an "EEEK! Its and SCAer!" smiley...
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04-04-2007, 04:49 PM
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#16 | | Feline Groovy
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Originally Posted by CvilleFencer There should be an "EEEK! Its and SCAer!" smiley... | More like 'Holy crap I was desperate for ANYthing to keep my fencing hand in!'  Moved to Hell, TX, no fencing to be found closer than Austin. Husband deployed to Saudi a few weeks later so even just sparring with (read: getting my butt kicked by) him wasn't an option. Stumbled across a local SCA group that held fighter practice in a nearby park. Worked out a deal with them so I could at least do SOMETHING fencing-wise. In return, I taught them cool tricks like parry-riposte instead of counter-attacking.  | |
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04-04-2007, 05:13 PM
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#17 | | Senior Member
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Originally Posted by VorpalCat More like 'Holy crap I was desperate for ANYthing to keep my fencing hand in!' | Oh, I understand completely. After moving to Cville but before we started the CFA I was rather desperate myself and fenced for a while with the local SCA club until we got CFA rolling. They were less than receptive to some of my techniques however... Even plenty of fencing nowadays, I do occasionally enjoy a nice bout of cased schlager now and again.
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04-04-2007, 06:37 PM
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#18 | | Feline Groovy
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Originally Posted by CvilleFencer I do occasionally enjoy a nice bout of cased schlager now and again. | Heh! Also handy to have in one's hip pocket if a new student is leaking those 'real swordfighting is better, not that you would know anything about that' vibes. The SCA/re-enactment crowd's version of street cred, perhaps??  | |
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