were do you come from?and what got you into the wild world of fencing?

[aussiefencer]

just tell me were do u come from and what got you into fencing.


i originally came from England but now live in Australia.
i decided to take up fencing 3 years ago because well DUH you get to poke people with swords how better can it get!?

[To_The_Point]

Wisconsin USA and a friend mildly forced me to try fencing one time (she fenced at the time). I complained before about how boring it will be, but here I am now...fencing.

[Neinteen]

Fake aussie fencer, but a foilist, good. welcome.

[tchwojko]

I picked up fencing after a bowling injury and a coin flip.

(Big wide open door, have at it.)

[ESLyon]

I'm in Wichita and I just recently picked up fencing because I've had an interest in it for a while and I also used to do historical, re-enactment type fencing which led me to find a fencing school here in Wichita.

[Inquartata]

just tell me were do u come from and what got you into fencing.

I might, once you locate your Shift key.

[Phrogger]

South Carolina and I started in college for fun. Long live college club teams! Maybe one day they'll have a budget and some support...

[monitorlizerd]

I started in nursing school, under a lovely lady named Jane, the head of Womens Athletics at Carnegie-Mellon University in Pittsburgh. Then I quit after I graduated.
Fast forward to 6 years ago, and my son starting saber in a middle school after-school program. I started hanging around the armory. Then my husband started fencing (saber). Then I went to Armorer's College, and then I started fencing.
So here I am, corrupted to the dark side...armorer, and saber/epee fencer.

Susie in Houston

[whiteandbluefencer]

I started in college for fun. Long live college club teams! Maybe one day they'll have a budget and some support...

Agreed!

I also started in a college club! I thought it was so cool, because where I grew up the only sports were football, volleyball, basketball, wrestling, cross country, and track. I guess I needed a more "intellectual" and "unusual" sport. It's so awesome when I go back to my high school and everyone is so shocked that I'm a fencer!

Oh, and I'm originally from Missouri!

[telkanuru]

I started because a cross-country running team in a urban school isn't really a thing that will stop you from being hit by cars.

[Ionut]

I got into fencing after watching the Highlander movie, I just started fencing again after an 8 years pause.

[Timberwolf_CY]

I'm sort of from two places, Troy, IL, and nearby St. Louis, MO. I went to college in Warrensburg, MO, about an hour outside KC on the Missouri side. I am returning there in about three weeks. Anyway, I got into it because I got into a discussion with a friend of mine (who's on the boards here too) and I asserted that, basically, fencing sucks, it's not very physical, it has no real brutality, no full-body contact like football or kendo, and various other moronisms I am wont to fire off from time to time, as some of you know. Anyway, my friend, in the ultimate act of diplomacy, invited me to come out to a practice and try it. I did, and I've been addicted ever since, and of course learned the error of my previous thinking. I'm basically a convert, lol.

[foillion]

I started fencing on the club team at Umass in 99. I was an athletic kid in high school but since there was no way in hell I would be able to play football or baseball and I'm slower than molasses in February I needed to find a sport I could actually compete in. I lucked out and ended up with a very good coach, oiuyt, and very good teammates, epeemike81, DJ Apostrophe, and telkanuru, whtouche, kshan5 in later years. Telkanuru is still extremely likely to get hit by a car, even if I have to do it myself. We won club team nationals two years in a row. Many of the people I was on the team with have become very accomplished refs. Epeemike81 and Kshan5 in particular are very good saber refs and you should look for them to be going internationally in the near future. DJ is the most efficient Bout Committee person I've ever seen. I've done well reffing foil and in spite of some difficulties this year I look forward to coming back next year. I still live and work in Massachusetts and plan on fencing in the NAC in October. I'm looking forward to the ref tournament. The upsetting thing is people will see us actually fence and from that point on have no confidence in our ability to referee.

Oh well.

Back to work.

-P

[thereom4]

I can from me mami and me papi who come from one of the hottest continents in the world. Before I came to Mich. I knew I wanted to take "fun" classes at the community college in Lansing and fencing just popped out to me and seemed interesting. I have only been fencing for a few months but I really enjoy it and I'm glad I started.

[Zilverzmurfen]

I'm from Sweden. Seventeen years ago I wanted to take up a sport to get better in shape etc. Naturally, I picked up what seemed to be the most fun. It was love at first touche.

[FoilBlender]

San Francisco CA
I was invited to go watch a practice and I got really into it.

[downunder]

From Sydney, Australia. Started fencing at school. Fenced epee at Junior worlds 2005, junior commonwealths 2006. Quit fencing at 19 and moved to the UK that year. Currently studying BSc Economics in London. Continued with my refereeing and passed my FIE foil and epee exams in Prague last year.

[Welted 24/7]

Originally from Queens, NY. Got into it when I was 13 and helping my dad clean out my grandma's basement, actually. Turns out he fenced epee for NYU in the 70s, so he told me all about it and asked me if I wanted to screw around with the old gear he still had kicking around the basement. The rest is an overused cliche.

Also, Peter Westbrook apparently still owes him five bucks for lunch that my dad spotted him after a team practice.

[CurtM]

I grew up in Southern Connecticut and got into fencing when I was in middle school and stumbled onto a club at the local rec center. It was coached by the guy who would become my HS varsity coach. My College didn't have a team, so I gave it up. Moving forward 10-15 years, I moved to DC and decided to pick it up again.

[Hobbes]

In 2000 I went to a crappy little university just south of Charlotte, NC. I got mixed up with the riff-raff that was the fencing club. Within a few semesters I was leading that riff-raff and doing well. Since college I have moved on to join a couple of the clubs in Charlotte and I am trying to make my run for most dominant fencer in the Carolinas... I have a bit of road to travel yet.