Ratings: When and Where Did You Get Them (Epee A and Sabre Ratings)

[veeco]

Actually, the point that I was making was that it's getting harder to re-earn an A these days, at least in my area. A bunch of people that weren't too good when I left have now gotten much better, which makes for great local events...

Since I got better while fencing outside, and came back, and barely re-earned my A, I think that the level in my area for fencing has increased quite a lot. Too bad that a lot of the "oldtimers" from 3 years ago aren't fencing anymore now...

[Shi no Tenshi]

No, it's in his/her OTHER poll which covers foil and epee below A-level. You just tried to vote in the wrong place.

Yeah, as MyrddinsPrecint pointed out, it isn't there either...I checked this one second as it was part 2, and figured if he was going to edit his poll this would be the place to do it, hence the post here instead of there, where it would fit in a more alphabetical fashion.

[Goldgar]

Epee A05, earned by winning the Vet50 ME at the Pittsuburgh NAC. Who knows if I'll ever re-earn it?

Also an E05 in sabre, dropped down from a D. I think I first earned a D in sabre by virtue of having a B in foil, back when they did it that way. But I did later earn it in a competition.

[lindajdunn]

I earned my E06 at last year's Summer Nationals fencing WSV50 and I note that I did this on a rear leg that had two meniscus tears. I have NOT renewed my rating since or improved it. Post surgery, I fenced in one competition before going to the Richmond NAC, finishing 8th in WSV50, injuring my right thumb ligament in the WSVET pool, and messing up my knee such that the doctor told me to stay off the strip for a few months or take up one-legged fencing.

[oiuyt]

Earned my Sabre D04 at Sectionals, promptly followed my C04 in Div1A after oversleeping and hearing my name on the loudspeakers as I rushed in with 5min to spare. My B05 came in Denver. Currently, I am looking forward to meeting Peach in at least one if not more Div II NAC finals in 2009...

You'll have to do it instead in the 09-10 season, rather than twice in 2009. Even that's only possible if at least one of you registers way ahead of time for the March NAC.

-B

[MyrddinsPrecint]

You'll have to do it instead in the 09-10 season, rather than twice in 2009. Even that's only possible if at least one of you registers way ahead of time for the March NAC.

-B

Is newly married bliss so boring that you would rather thing about this???

: P


Go upload honeymoon pictures! Go!

[Peach]

Brad is a master of multitasking. It's not "rather," it's "also."

Is newly married bliss so boring that you would rather thing about this???

: P


Go upload honeymoon pictures! Go!

[counterattack]

I think I first earned my A in 2003 at the Sierra Nevada Open. I have re-earned it maybe 15 times, though with Veeco and some other good fencers coming to the area I think it is going to be a lot harder to keep a current A rating in the coming years.

My foil C was at a Bay Cup a few years back. Enough years that it will become a D any day now. I was used to beating up the kids to keep my rating in foil... and then the kids got so good that there was no way to do the "never practice foil, only fence it in tourneys, but still keep a current rating". Plus the re-org of the Bay Cup so that a C fences only in the "C and higher" event, means that a C who doesn't practice is a C who gets served up. I was getting too old and too familiar with surgery to keep it up anyway

[wahrman]

F-E06 in a bay cup event. F-D07 at the Hawaii Open.
E-E06 at a Bay Cup, E-D06 at a C and lower in Michigan, E-C06 at the Pillar Open in
San Francisco, E-C07 at the Hawaii Open.

I also renewed the C06 a few times in there.


I tried to get you to come to the new C-D-E foil events.

I think I first earned my A in 2003 at the Sierra Nevada Open. I have re-earned it maybe 15 times, though with Veeco and some other good fencers coming to the area I think it is going to be a lot harder to keep a current A rating in the coming years.

My foil C was at a Bay Cup a few years back. Enough years that it will become a D any day now. I was used to beating up the kids to keep my rating in foil... and then the kids got so good that there was no way to do the "never practice foil, only fence it in tourneys, but still keep a current rating". Plus the re-org of the Bay Cup so that a C fences only in the "C and higher" event, means that a C who doesn't practice is a C who gets served up. I was getting too old and too familiar with surgery to keep it up anyway