Lets Fence the High Seas me Heartey's!

[Gav]

Arr me hearteys! Yer interpid old sea dog Gav has braved the Internet Sea to bring you this little bit o' sea tack - so he has ARRR!

http://www.columbusfencing.org/SantaMariaEpee.html

Wot says you me salty seadogs! Shall we follow the map ter the Gold Dubloons?

[Sildar]

Oh, man. I'm so very tempted to fly out for that event, just to say I did it.

People keep asking what could make fencing a better spectator sport; I think we now have the answer. What I wouldn't give to hear a director say, "That be a touch for starboard, Jim boy!"

The winner ought to receive a bottle of rum too.

[D'Artagnan1673]

Wow, that's amazing. I would love to fence such a tournament.

[sallearmourer]

I can dig it myself if I lived nearby, I might even come out of retirement.



Tim

[lochinvar]

This sounded like an absolutely neat thing when I first read of it.
Too bad I won't be able to make it, even though Columbus lies within my normal "circle of interest"--i.e., the radius of expended time which I'm willing to drive for tournaments.

On a different note, Sildar struck a particularly noteworthy chord. Q: What can we do to promote fencing in our areas?
A: Be creative. Stage tournaments in unusual places--on the deck of a sailing ship, for example!

[Sildar]

Well, just add glow-in-the-dark tip tape, and some sort of device to make the weapons go "vroom, vroom" when you wave them around, and have a planetarium host the event...

Of course, some smart alec director might start saying things like "Meesa tink point left!" and then the fencers would have to kill him.

[HilandDoug]

Sildar, that's very funny! I'd love to do this tournament, as it's always been one of my dreams. I certainly hope they will make this an annual event!!! I can't make it because the Michigan Renaissance Festival is sending we 3 Musketeers down to Kansas City the first weekend of October to show thier Musketeers how it's done. Very flattering, I must say!

Hey, Salle Aramis: make this an annual event!!!!!

[D'Artagnan1673]

Yes, I imagine that if the director started imitating Jar Jar, we'd came WWIII on our hands.

[counter riposte]

Have to agree with Slidar. Must kill Director.... especially if he is acting broodishly drunk.

Otherwise, it looks like a really fun event.

[Iwant2bafencer]

Fencing on the deck of a ship? How much better can it get? I would love to just go and watch it if not compete. To bad I'm 'underaged' (not out on my own), have school, tennis, everything else, and I don't have the money to get there.
Man that'd be fun! It sucks living in a Dessert.

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Ad Asha

[Psi Shadowdark]

hmm i live in cincinnati ohio not far, now i just got to learn epee =)

[Dalrathki]

Currently my fencers are working on a concrete floor, this is very hard on the knees as well as slipery, does anyone know where and what i can get to put down on the floor to use as a piste that is not overly expensive?

[Moonitic]

That has to be one of the most utterly cool ideas! As Doug could tell you, I'm a BIG pirate fan. Fencing on a ship...wow...

And Doug, congrats on the newest gig! You guys really are excellent (even though I must root for Captain Sapphire & the Seven Deadly Sins).