08-30-2008, 08:41 PM
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#1 | | Just Joined
Join Date: Jul 2003
Posts: 23
| How far do you drive for fencing lessons?
Just wondering how many people out there have to make a LONG drive to get to their nearest fencing club? I'm just curious.. | 
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08-30-2008, 08:46 PM
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#2 | | Member
Join Date: Aug 2008 Location: AUS
Posts: 36
| i live in rockingham AUS and my fencing lessons are a 50min drive every saturday ....oh well its worth it!! 
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08-30-2008, 08:51 PM
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#3 | | Senior Member
Join Date: Feb 2006 Location: San Francisco, CA
Posts: 1,536
| Right now, both places are pretty much on my way home from work, but it's about 25 miles from work, and about 20 from home. Not bad, but I used to drive an hour and a half (without traffic), by myself when I was in high school.
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08-30-2008, 09:00 PM
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#4 | | Member
Join Date: Jul 2008 Location: Florida
Posts: 75
| I drive about 45 minutes to get to the club. Except when I go on Saturdays and the Gators have a home game. I found out today that it takes about an hour and a half when that happens.
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08-30-2008, 09:01 PM
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#5 | | Senior Member
Join Date: Jan 2003 Location: Northern Ohio
Posts: 456
| I drive about an hour each Saturday to see my coach, but I also help with the club at my university and fence at another club that is about a half hour away.
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08-30-2008, 09:06 PM
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#6 | | Member
Join Date: Jul 2007 Location: right by NYC
Posts: 87
| Usually I drive between 45 minutes to an hour each way, sometimes more depending on the traffic. There is one good club only about 20 minutes from where I live, but my club is excellent, and the training is definitely worth the drive. | |
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08-30-2008, 09:50 PM
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#7 | | Senior Member
Join Date: Jul 2001 Location: Dana Hall School, Wellesely, MA
Posts: 4,311
| 3.4 miles. 
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08-30-2008, 10:05 PM
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#8 | | Unconfirmed
Join Date: Aug 2008
Posts: 214
| About 4.1...poor me 
That's about 10-15 minutes. | |
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08-30-2008, 11:43 PM
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#9 | | Member
Join Date: Dec 2007
Posts: 88
| I train at a local recreation center ~1m away from my house .. for free! | |
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08-30-2008, 11:59 PM
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#10 | | Senior Member
Join Date: Jul 2000 Location: Beaverton, OR, USA
Posts: 1,781
| About 150 yards, but that's because I have to drive around the garages in the apartment complex. Walking shaves about 50 yards off. 
I used to drive 2.5 hours to train at Westdale FC in Canada, but that was X% lessons, (100-X)% cute girl.
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08-31-2008, 12:20 AM
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#11 | | Senior Member
Join Date: Jul 2001 Location: Dana Hall School, Wellesely, MA
Posts: 4,311
| Quote:
Originally Posted by darius  About 150 yards, but that's because I have to drive around the garages in the apartment complex. Walking shaves about 50 yards off.
I used to drive 2.5 hours to train at Westdale FC in Canada, but that was X% lessons, (100-X)% cute girl.
darius | Where X is pretty damned low.
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08-31-2008, 12:20 AM
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#12 | | Senior Member
Join Date: May 2008 Location: Western PA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Posts: 273
| I know for certain that there has already been a thread almost exactly like this one, but with the twist of asking whether the price of gas has effected the amount of fencing you do.
My current answer for how far I go for fencing lessons:
I walk across campus... not far until is snows two feet in about a month or so...
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08-31-2008, 02:23 AM
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#13 | | Senior Member
Join Date: Jan 2004 Location: Boston, MA
Posts: 6,609
| I have a 25 mile drive each way, which takes between 20 min and 1.5 hours.
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08-31-2008, 03:25 AM
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#14 | | Senior Member
Join Date: Sep 2006
Posts: 422
| Lessons? 168 km (1.5 hours). Then I wait for the ferry 1 hour. Then I spend 1.75 hours on the ferry. Then usually about another 1 hour drive across town, depending on traffic.
Sometimes I get more than one lesson per trip, though.
Fencing? 96 km return trip. | |
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08-31-2008, 07:39 AM
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#15 | | Senior Member
Join Date: Apr 2004 Location: High Point NC
Posts: 216
| To local club: 30 minutes/twice a week.
To UNC club: 1 hour and a half/ once a week. | |
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08-31-2008, 08:03 AM
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#16 | | Senior Member
Join Date: Mar 2001 Location: Meadville, PA
Posts: 786
| I walk two blocks to give lessons and drive 90 miles to get lessons.
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08-31-2008, 08:41 AM
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#17 | | Senior Member
Join Date: Sep 2004
Posts: 634
| About 15 or 20 minutes. Used to be about 40 minutes one way, which got to be pretty brutal on the gas tank when I was going three times a week.
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08-31-2008, 11:36 AM
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#18 | | Senior Member
Join Date: Mar 2007
Posts: 109
| An hour each way, 4-6x per week, depending on national competition schedule.
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08-31-2008, 01:04 PM
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#19 | | Senior Member
Join Date: Jul 2000 Location: Beaverton, OR, USA
Posts: 1,781
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Where X is pretty damned low.
| I don't know - he's a pretty damn good foil coach.
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08-31-2008, 01:46 PM
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#20 | | Senior Member
Join Date: Mar 2003 Location: Eugene, OR
Posts: 1,081
| I drive 2 hours each way to get lessons, about 10 min each way for local fencing.
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