07-03-2007, 06:45 PM
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| Weapon importance
Do you think that nowadays one weapon(either epee,foil or sabre) gets more media coverage than any other or do they give each one the exact amount to make it even? | 
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07-03-2007, 06:53 PM
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Originally Posted by Carlos37  Do you think that nowadays one weapon(either epee,foil or sabre) gets more media coverage than any other or do they give each one the exact amount to make it even? | Carlos, babe, bubala. They all get the same media coverage. Zero (rounding is immaterial).
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07-03-2007, 07:47 PM
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I think Saber gets more attention because of the success of the American Women.
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07-03-2007, 08:37 PM
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| I'll agree with that. Saber was the only nationally televised weapon in the 2004 Olympics. Not sure why... while it was so cool to watch (me being a non-fencer at the time) I had NO idea what was going on! All I knew was they were throwing themselves at eachother. Epee would have been far easier to grasp for non-fencers (but probably would have lost the audience).
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07-03-2007, 09:07 PM
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Originally Posted by RPI Epeeist I'll agree with that. Saber was the only nationally televised weapon in the 2004 Olympics. Not sure why... while it was so cool to watch (me being a non-fencer at the time) I had NO idea what was going on! All I knew was they were throwing themselves at eachother. Epee would have been far easier to grasp for non-fencers (but probably would have lost the audience). | There was originally going to be a half hour of fencing on bravo. But since we did so well, fencing actually made it to nbc proper, although significantly less time.
(edit: and by "we", I mean USA women's sabre.)
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07-03-2007, 11:53 PM
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| HAHA!!  You're kidding right? Fencing in general doesn't get media coverage...
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07-04-2007, 01:51 AM
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Originally Posted by Warrior Princess HAHA!! You're kidding right? Fencing in general doesn't get media coverage... | i agree! i started a thread about Olympic Fencing Coverage... i felt really bad when i found out it's basically non-existent.. very depressing... fencing doesn't get media coverage unless it's an advertisement of some sort... 
depressing yet true... | |
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07-04-2007, 05:52 AM
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i agree! i started a thread about Olympic Fencing Coverage... i felt really bad when i found out it's basically non-existent.. very depressing... fencing doesn't get media coverage unless it's an advertisement of some sort...
depressing yet true...
| So do you think fencing is doomed to stay this way or could it change in the future due to some events? | |
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07-04-2007, 12:47 PM
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| put more money into promoting the sport (not silly things like clear visors and flashy lights).
but its also hard to actually understand fencing unless you do it urself (fence) | |
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07-05-2007, 02:51 AM
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Originally Posted by Carlos37 So do you think fencing is doomed to stay this way or could it change in the future due to some events? | it would probably change in the future... who knows?? i hope it would get televised more in the future.... but i hope fencing changes just enough so that it keeps its "uniqueness"... | |
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07-05-2007, 02:57 AM
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Originally Posted by lemon__fresh put more money into promoting the sport (not silly things like clear visors and flashy lights).
| i agree..... adding the visors to give a human face to the sport is smart-but unnecessary... why? i can't explain right now.. it's 1 in the morning and i can't put all my thoughts down...  remind me to explain my thoughts at a later time... | |
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07-05-2007, 11:59 AM
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| I think there has been significant progress. Recently you've had some law firm commercials with Fencing, NCAA made a fencing commercial, and of course there was the commercial with the guys fencing with fish from the superbowl (I think that's where it was from... I didn't like it but it was something). But you're right, I think more promoting is necessary. I mean seriously... ESPN shows Darts, Curling, and the Spelling Bee, why not fencing???
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07-05-2007, 12:04 PM
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Originally Posted by RPI Epeeist ESPN shows Darts, Curling, and the Spelling Bee, why not fencing??? |
yea thats what really bugs me
espn will even show magic (card game) tournaments... now thats just sad
and even now on tv(in canada) when they show the beijing olympics montages they show pretty much every sport but fencing
its been part of every modern olympic games since the beginning,
wheres the respect!
oh yea and i heard the visors on saber masks can fog up, distort your view, and they scratch up (also look kinda silly, see hazmat suit) | |
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