12-09-2007, 04:10 PM
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#21 | | Just Joined
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| Stab them in the face...
...best done when they're fleching towards you.
Or fleche and scream. Just be prepared for some weird looks when you're practising your best blood-curdling scream around uni  | 
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12-09-2007, 07:20 PM
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#22 | | Senior Member
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Originally Posted by Invictious  Try mumbling curses like 'AVADA KEDAVRA!' and 'EXPELLIARMUS' It ought to do the trick. -Invictious | I find "STOPPUS OPPONATUS" tends to do the trick. | 
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12-09-2007, 07:43 PM
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#23 | | Member
Join Date: Nov 2007 Location: Colorado Springs
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| I try not to suck, but that doesn't all ways work. lol
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12-10-2007, 12:32 AM
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#24 | | Senior Member
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Originally Posted by Got_Fenced_In Well, I have this certain... tactic. I call it Plan B. (Actually fencing is Plan A.) | Does that make fencing your primary means of birth control?
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12-10-2007, 01:26 AM
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#25 | | Senior Member
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Originally Posted by telkanuru I find "STOPPUS OPPONATUS" tends to do the trick. | swish and flick.....
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12-10-2007, 04:22 AM
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#26 | | Senior Member
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| Creepy, but couldn't resist
A nice garland of previous opponents' shrunken heads is a good accessory to a particularly difficult bout.*** Make sure to stroke them at the rest periods accompanied by, "My Precious".
***Please make sure they have weapon's control marks on them, or dude that will get you carded.
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12-10-2007, 12:20 PM
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#27 | | Senior Member
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Originally Posted by Army Fencer Does that make fencing your primary means of birth control? |
Heh heh!! You didn't see the picture, did you? 
But yes, fencing works wonders. You know, that's a good idea. We should market this stuff. Fencing: Baby Prevention In a Bottle...? Yeah. I'm not sure quite how we'd BOTTLE it, but anything is possible.. MASS PPRODUCTION, MWUAHAHA.
__________________ ...and his favorite was 'Carpe Diem'.
(But all things must come to an end.)
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12-10-2007, 07:41 PM
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#28 | | Senior Member
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Originally Posted by Got_Fenced_In Heh heh!! You didn't see the picture, did you?
But yes, fencing works wonders. You know, that's a good idea. We should market this stuff. Fencing: Baby Prevention In a Bottle...? Yeah. I'm not sure quite how we'd BOTTLE it, but anything is possible.. MASS PPRODUCTION, MWUAHAHA. | No, I didn't.
I was getting a little concerned that no one got my reference to the controversial contraceptive.
But yeah... I know people who have quit the sport for precisely this reason.
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12-17-2007, 11:41 AM
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#29 | | Just Joined
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| I am a bit concerned that my tactics are not refined enough for this sophisticated audience, but I will share one:
Once, at a NAC and before a bout against an opponent I did not know, with a ref I had never met, as my opponent was putting his mask on and revving himself into combat mode, I went up to the ref and said, "I'm going to start talking to you so my opponent will think you and I are friends."
The ref laughed loudly, as I had hoped he would. My opponent looked worried, as I knew he would, and the ground was suitably prepared. As I once said to one of my fencers, when I was a college coach and he was complaining that his opponent was a lot better than him, "You don't have to be better. You just have to win."
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12-18-2007, 08:22 PM
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#30 | | Member
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Originally Posted by Got_Fenced_In Well, I have this certain... tactic. I call it Plan B. (Actually fencing is Plan A.) http://www.gwentswordclub.co.uk/yapi...p?gid=2&phid=5
Just be sure that before you try this (bah, rookies) you're in good enough physical condition that you can outrun and/or take on any law enforcement or angry mothers that may come after you 
But remember, in the end, fencing is all about fun, kids. | Except those two are fencing foil!  | |
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12-19-2007, 12:06 AM
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#31 | | Senior Member
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Originally Posted by Remise-o-matic Once, at a NAC and before a bout against an opponent I did not know, with a ref I had never met, as my opponent was putting his mask on and revving himself into combat mode, I went up to the ref and said, "I'm going to start talking to you so my opponent will think you and I are friends." | My tactic is more usually to give massages to the most highly rated refs in the room. It then doesn't matter whether or not my particular ref knows me, it's understood that they ought to.
........... Depends on the tournament though...........
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12-19-2007, 12:12 AM
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| How do you tiebreak with multiple 1s present? | |
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12-19-2007, 01:31 AM
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#33 | | Senior Member
Join Date: May 2003 Location: Arlington, VA
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| Very complicated set of rules.
1. There are some refs who are automatically off the list. Namely people who have yelled at me or people close to me, or who have sexual harassed me. This is not particularly surprising.
2. Ariana Always Wins.
3. Hanan wins if Ariana isn't currently winning.
4. Whoever I'm dating gets some sort of priority, although it's not usually helpful to me.
4.5 Overly Competent Tournament Organizers.
5. Then comes refs with 4s or higher who have already seen me naked.
6. Then the refs with ratings who have seen me naked.
7. FOCs I don't hate.
8. Refs I don't hate that are in the top half in the room (as determined either by skill or rating, not altitude).
9. Refs I don't hate in the lower half of the room.
These rules are entirely made up and are thus subject to change.
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12-19-2007, 12:54 PM
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#34 | | Epee fencing addict
Join Date: Jan 2005 Location: Glenwood, ny
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Originally Posted by blackfencer psycological tactics retell you own!! | I come on the piste trying to convince my opponent that I am a clueless old fart.
Oh.... wait.....
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12-20-2007, 05:12 PM
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#35 | | Senior Member
Join Date: Sep 2007 Location: New Hamphire
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| I fumble around with hooking my weapon up (be careful, some refs don't like it). Then for my first attack I hit an exact target (elbow crease, the place where the cuff hits the glove etc.). After that act real nervous or scared, draw um in. Hit them in the face.
I used that in a mini tournament at my club, worked well.
Really though, just do whatever your feeling right then. Sometimes I like to be all exact and stoic (hope I spelled that right). Other times I am jumpy and active. Keep them guessing. I still have some of my oldest opponents (only about 8 months because thats how long I have been fencing, but oh well) confused about my technique. | |
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12-20-2007, 10:50 PM
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#36 | | Senior Member
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Originally Posted by App13
Chum: ha well with enough vodka Russians can pull anything off
Me:Just look at space flight!
(Actual Conversation)
| I don't believe that anybody could say something THAT funny in an "actual conversation".
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12-21-2007, 03:01 PM
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#37 | | Curmudgeon-in-Chief
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Originally Posted by MyrddinsPrecint My tactic is more usually to give massages to the most highly rated refs in the room. | Sounds counterproductive. I mean, how can it be a good thing to have all the blood suddenly rush away from a referee's brain?
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12-21-2007, 03:06 PM
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#38 | | Senior Member
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| Why would an epee referee need blood to the brain? | |
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12-21-2007, 03:17 PM
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#39 | | Curmudgeon-in-Chief
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| I confess that I have no ready answer to that one.
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12-21-2007, 05:01 PM
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#40 | | Senior Member
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Originally Posted by Dev Why would an epee referee need blood to the brain? | To stop them reproducing.
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