Collegiate Fencing,Temple Open Results

[Wafath]

No, but I definitely got sick of having to fence the novice club fencer.

But you are OK with fencing the novice varsity fencers? (A casual inspection of the results show roughly 1/3 of the fencers who didn't make the first cut were varsity, not club.)

W

[telkanuru]

Are their such things as?

I'm in agreement that I hate fencing newbies at tournaments. They just don't react the way they're supposed to.

[MyrddinsPrecint]

Better scans of the results. These have been sent over to Sports Information and will likely appear on the Temple website later today, but meanwhile...

-B

Once again proving that womens epeeists are more masculine than mens foilists, and Xseed is useless and dumb.

[Superscribe]

one time i faced a newbie club fencer who reminded me of a back alley yakuza knife fighter. I was very very confused. I won 1-0 on attack no counterattack.

Something about winding up and swiping makes parry easy, but riposte incredibly difficult.

[Delta]

No, but I definitely got sick of having to fence the novice club fencer.

why?

(argh, craig, isn't four characters enough to hit the reply button?

[prototoast]

why?

(argh, craig, isn't four characters enough to hit the reply button?

Mostly because it's boring. Also, a little bit because you never know when they're going to go do something stupid that gets you hurt. In one bout with a club fencer, he both broke the guard on my saber and put a terminal dent in the blade. That's really more than I'd like to pay for an easy 5-0 victory.

As for the why novice club vs novice varsity, I don't think I ever encountered any varsity fencers who were quite as bad as a lot of the club fencers I had to face (excluding Yeshiva), but I didn't like fencing bad varsity fencers either.