05-04-2007, 05:45 PM
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#1 | | Just Joined
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| What's your "special move" called?
Everyone has one, whether it's on the fencing strip or picking up someone at a bar or whatever. Don't be shy! I know this is a silly post idea, but it could be fun.
I'll start. Mine is called "the sizzler" where you move your body out of the way of the weapon at the last second so you hear the sizzle of the sabre touching nothing but air then go for the touch.
What's yours and how do you do it? | 
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05-05-2007, 04:06 AM
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#2 | | Épéeist Hive Queen
Join Date: Jul 2002 Location: Sweden
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Originally Posted by ChamorroZorro  Mine is called "the sizzler" where you move your body out of the way of the weapon at the last second so you hear the sizzle of the sabre touching nothing but air then go for the touch. | Do you mean like an inquartata?
Mine's the wrist touch.  
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05-05-2007, 05:00 AM
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#3 | | Senior Member
Join Date: Mar 2007 Location: Illinois
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05-05-2007, 05:07 PM
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#4 | | Senior Member
Join Date: Nov 2006 Location: In the middle of an ellipsis named 'lemur catta'
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Originally Posted by ChamorroZorro Everyone has one, whether it's on the fencing strip or picking up someone at a bar or whatever. Don't be shy! I know this is a silly post idea, but it could be fun. | For fencing, my 'special move' is a very long flunge followed by hoping and then a lunge with a possible redouble. I usually score somewhere in there or else I just run my opponent off the strip.
As for my social life; my pick up line consists of bragging about my particle accelerator that I have in my basement and then I like to show off my manly tattoos of differential equations and function that I have! 
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05-05-2007, 07:02 PM
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#5 | | Senior Member
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Originally Posted by fences_like_a_lemur For fencing, my 'special move' is a very long flunge followed by hoping and then a lunge with a possible redouble. I usually score somewhere in there or else I just run my opponent off the strip. | Oh man, that's great. Classic sabre.  I actually really want to see that...
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05-05-2007, 08:02 PM
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#6 | | Senior Member
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| The name of my special move is called "Haddock's eyes", but that's only what the name is called. The name really is "The aged aged man". The move itself is called "Ways and Means", but that is only what it's called. It really is "A-sitting on a gate"
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05-05-2007, 10:06 PM
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| Twice, while fencing epee, I've tangled my feet up, tripped, fell and accidentally nailed my opponent on the way down. I haven't thought of an appropriately impressive name for the move yet. | |
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05-05-2007, 11:53 PM
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#8 | | Senior Member
Join Date: Jun 2003 Location: near Boston
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| A late head parry-riposte on the very first phrase of a Sabre match, when almost everyone just goes for a simultaneous head cut.
I call it the "Deflater", when it works the opponent just wilts.
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05-06-2007, 01:40 PM
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#9 | | Épéeist Hive Queen
Join Date: Jul 2002 Location: Sweden
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Originally Posted by bxtr Twice, while fencing epee, I've tangled my feet up, tripped, fell and accidentally nailed my opponent on the way down. I haven't thought of an appropriately impressive name for the move yet. | The Slamdunk..?
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05-06-2007, 02:29 PM
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#10 | | Senior Member
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| My move is called, "my arm is actually longer than I have been pretending for the first half of the bout". But I usually just call it "George".
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05-06-2007, 04:15 PM
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#11 | | Just Joined
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Originally Posted by Zilverzmurfen Do you mean like an inquartata?
Mine's the wrist touch. | no, more like "the matrix" where the torso basically goes backwards but controlled as the weapon misses. | |
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05-06-2007, 06:32 PM
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#12 | | Senior Member
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Originally Posted by Zilverzmurfen The Slamdunk..? | Or the Slampoke? ... 
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05-06-2007, 10:03 PM
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#13 | | Senior Member
Join Date: Mar 2007 Location: Dere middle of Vermont
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| Mine is called the "Garfunkle".
And no, I will not explain...
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05-07-2007, 12:00 PM
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#14 | | Senior Member
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Originally Posted by bxtr Twice, while fencing epee, I've tangled my feet up, tripped, fell and accidentally nailed my opponent on the way down. I haven't thought of an appropriately impressive name for the move yet. | The Yellow Card? | |
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05-07-2007, 12:18 PM
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#15 | | I am a man... A MEGA MAN!
Join Date: Oct 2003 Location: South Carolina über Alles
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| The lunge and the counter attack.
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05-07-2007, 12:32 PM
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#16 | | Senior Member
Join Date: Oct 2006 Location: Live in Maine...Fence in New Hampshire
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| OK...I guess I will name mine. I seem to be known for spinning away from a touch and scoring on a counter. How about if I call it...
"FAT MAN SPINNING"
or, maybe "revolution" would be more appropriate...because planets are fat like I am, and many of them "revolve..." | |
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05-09-2007, 02:48 PM
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#17 | | Senior Member
Join Date: Oct 2005 Location: Salem, Oregon
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| Mine is called the "ENUAAAGH!"
It's the noise I make when I REALLY need the touch. | |
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05-09-2007, 02:49 PM
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#18 | | Senior Member
Join Date: Oct 2005 Location: Salem, Oregon
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Originally Posted by Beloit Fencer of Old OK...I guess I will name mine. I seem to be known for spinning away from a touch and scoring on a counter. How about if I call it...
"FAT MAN SPINNING"
or, maybe "revolution" would be more appropriate...because planets are fat like I am, and many of them "revolve..." | I may have to borrow that one.... | |
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05-10-2007, 01:38 AM
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#19 | | Curmudgeon-in-Chief
Join Date: Jul 2001 Location: Somewhere in your nightmares!
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| Mine is called the Refereedoesn'tseeit. I often use it in conjunction with the Tryitagainanyway, and eventually with the Snatchdefeatfromthejawsofvictory.
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05-10-2007, 05:38 AM
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#20 | | Senior Member
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| "Footwork"
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