Ratings: When and Where Did You Get Them

[jbenjamin]

the title of this thread pretty much says it all.. if there are any problems with the poll pleas tell me what's wrong and I'll try to remember it for next time..

[oiuyt]

I have classifications in all three weapons -- granted with two polls I can list two of them, but...

Also, are you looking for the initial time someone earned their rating, or every time?

-B

[CvilleFencer]

Ditto, three weapon fencer rated in all three. And as asked previously, do you want the date that the rating was first attained, the first rating we ever got, if that was in a primary (or primary weapon at the time) or secondary weapon and so on. I honestly can't remember exactly when I got my first rating, but it was in foil oddly enough.

[DJ Apostrophe]

Answered the Sabre rating in the other thread...

as for my epee rating:
B05 - First earned it (was a B04 at that point) by placing 3rd in the Granite State Open (the one with all the flies), then earned it (as a B05) by placing 4th (damned fencing off for 3rd) at North Atlantic Senior Sectionals later that year. Re-earned it at the Granite State Open in the fall of 05 by winning the event. Then I got injured (plantar fasciitis), sick (mononucleosis) and fat... Haven't gotten back there yet.I need to re-earn it again, it is getting old.

Foil rating:
E06 - Earned it in either an unclassified or E&Under mixed foil event at Prise de Fer last summer. Myself and my coach (both epee fencers) both fenced in the event to make 15 people, and we each got an E out of the deal.

-w

[larkmaj]

Epee C06 at FMCC's Fence For Food in October, lost to my coach in the final.

Foil E07 at the FVFA Unclassified in January. Lost in the final to somebody who actually knows how to fence foil, which I certainly don't.

[MyrddinsPrecint]

Switched to epee after I got mono, but before it was officially diagnosed. (Well, coaches from 4 different colleges looked at me fencing epee and declared I had mono, but, yeah.) I was alternate until somone tore an ACL mid-day, and then I did things like sweep Brown (including beating someone who, other than the loss to me, was undefeated that day). I spent 2 or 3 months in a college program that historically- under ordinary circumstances- only had serious succes in sabre. (REALLY not known for epee......)

Div2/3 Quals, lost every single pool bout 4-5. Took two lessons that week, at the end of the week, got an E07. (in march). It showed up on the website a couple weeks ago............

[contre-Sixte]

Got my foil A07 by winning a VET NAC in Atlanta. Re-earned it against my nemesii EDEW & K. Urbain at a local tourney. My Previous A was something like A80! [Did they even have ratings back then?]

[Goldgar]

In foil, B06 -- first earned it many years ago winning the Phiadelphia Division Championships, IIRC, been re-earning it pretty regularly ever since.

Like many others, especially other veterans, I'm a 3-weapon fencer -- although sabre is a pretty distant third.

[fencerbill]

Got my foil A07 by winning a VET NAC in Atlanta. Re-earned it against my nemesii EDEW & K. Urbain at a local tourney. My Previous A was something like A80! [Did they even have ratings back then?]

Yes, but for a long time there was only A, B, and C, and they didn't have the year suffix.

[jeff]

Hm, first got my C in a Met division open around 1974, got my B at Mid-Atlantic Sectionals in 1986 (I think). I was out of competition for a bit, and still only on occasion, but have been renewing at C level

[black card]

i got my epee c in my second open tourney ever in 2002. it was at the university of texas and i had been a club fencer there for a very short while. i was a U going into it, so quite a leap.

i steadily got less involved in fencing to where it degraded to a D late last year. i guess that was sort of a wake up call and i trained for a couple of weeks and just re-earned my C by taking 5th in AFAs start of summer epee tourney. now i am gunning for my A

[catwood1]

I just got my E in epee (my secondary wepon) a few weeks ago when they needed a 15th guy to enter an event to make it a D1. Borrowed equipment and never warmed up