"Street Fencing" featured in adidas ad

[sionnach]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kM80ipRBEVk

Ingenious bit of viral marketing (:

[freerider258]

that's pretty cool,

i think one guy had a foil, and the other an epee...
nonetheless very cool ad.

[Hobbes]

that was a spectacular video.. thank you for sharing

[sionnach]

i think one guy had a foil, and the other an epee...
nonetheless very cool ad.

Call me crazy but I have this sneaking suspicion that some of those other sports weren't done with the right equipment either...

[parrythis]

I used to be King of the Swing Long Jump... but that was 50 years ago.

[Shi no Tenshi]

that's pretty cool,

i think one guy had a foil, and the other an epee...
nonetheless very cool ad.

Heh, I think it was actually a sabre and a foil.....

[wahrman]

There seems to be three fencers in that video. One foil, one epee and one saber.
But it's hard to tell.

[Timo]

Who else here wants to go try some of that now?

[freerider258]

Call me crazy but I have this sneaking suspicion that some of those other sports weren't done with the right equipment either...

Well, yea. Just making an observation though

Heh, I think it was actually a sabre and a foil.....

It was all three

Here's the Rundown:

At :25 you can see the green shirt guy has a foil

At :26 you can see the black shirt guy has an epee

At around :56 you can see the green shirt guy has a saber, and the grey shirt guy has a foil