Ciao

[samster]

hi. my name is "sam" and am just getting back into the sport because my son (who's 10) has taken an interest. i am 44 y.o., and fenced last in high school some 27 years ago. but that was sabre and righty. i am now on foil and lefty due to some knee/back issues.

we've joined a club in st. louis, mo (home) and have been at it for about 1.5 mos. it's hard work, but rewarding. going lefty is a strange experience since i'm just not coded that way. but the progress is steady and it's a nice "reset" that makes the experience almost totally new.

thanks for reading,
--sam

[lefty_monster]

*slaps herself to refrain from making Dr. Seuss joke.* *slaps again to get rid of LOTR joke*

OK, I'm good. Welcome back to the sport! Fencing is a great family sport. And lefties rule.

[Neinteen]

welcome!!!! I am not a gibbon in case anyone asks.

[KidLazy]

Welcome to the forum.

[samster]

thanks everyone. looks like there's a german theme going on... tchuss!

[Neinteen]

thanks everyone. looks like there's a german theme going on... tchuss!

hawt. +reputationnnn!!!

[App13]

Capitalization is your buddy 'round this parts. That and epee.

[Beloit Fencer of Old]

welcome!!!! I am not a gibbon in case anyone asks.

Gibbons are the small apes in the family Hylobatidae. The family is divided into four genera based on their diploid chromosome number: Hylobates (44), Hoolock (38), Nomascus (52), and Symphalangus (50).[2][3] They occur in tropical and subtropical rainforests from northeast India to Indonesia and north to southern China, including the islands of Sumatra, Borneo and Java. The extinct Bunopithecus sericus is an extinct gibbon or gibbon-like ape which, until recently, was thought to be closely related to the Hoolock gibbons.[2]

Also called the lesser apes, gibbons differ from great apes (chimpanzees, gorillas, orangutans and humans) in being smaller, pair-bonded, not making nests, and in certain anatomical details in which they superficially more closely resemble monkeys than great apes do. Gibbons are masters of their primary mode of locomotion, brachiation, swinging from branch to branch distances of up to 15 m (50 ft), at speeds as much as 56 km/h (35 mph). They can also make leaps of up to 8 m (27 ft), and walk bipedally with their arms raised for balance.