Tarrantino Captures Gold at Trofeo Luxardo

[10000Fencers]

Tarrantino still going strong at 36! Looking like he is 25 while he cuts his way through the field!

http://timmorehouse.wordpress.com/20...rofeo-luxardo/

As a 30-year-old fencer myself it's exciting to see that I still have a long career ahead of me if I take care of my mind, body and spirit!

[Mihail]

I'll have the videos from here and Madrid up by June 3rd-ish, including the Montano v Dumitrescu bout with "color commentary" by Tim and James

[10000Fencers]

hahaha Have you listened to our color commentary yet? How is it? This should be funny..."Montano attacks...It's GOOD!"

We forgot to say "Both fencers going 100% in the middle."

[Mr.MightyMouse]

Any reason for Mr. Rogers not taking part in team competition?

[sheck]

Tarrantino still going strong at 36! Looking like he is 25 while he cuts his way through the field!

http://timmorehouse.wordpress.com/20...rofeo-luxardo/

As a 30-year-old fencer myself it's exciting to see that I still have a long career ahead of me if I take care of my mind, body and spirit!

Unbelievable fast hand. Probably the fastest ever.

[Inquartata]

I'll have the videos from here and Madrid up by June 3rd-ish, including the Montano v Dumitrescu bout with "color commentary" by Tim and James

I'm more interested in the off-color commentary.

[gladius]

Tarrantino still going strong at 36! Looking like he is 25 while he cuts his way through the field!

Luigi Tarantino is a great fencer. Stanislav Pozdniakov when asked who who was his toughest opponent in his long career replied that it was Tarantino.

http://www.atleticomtv.it/federscherma/ interview with Pozdniakov


Not to steal you thunder, since you really show how we can make a difference (since the USFA does not) with all your efforts and initiatives, but for the benefit of those interested in saber, here is what the FIS posted IMMEDIATELY after the end of the individual competition in Padua today.

http://www.federscherma.it/news.asp?i=72673&s=7


05/30/2009 - 18:23

Padua: After ten years Luigi Tarantino won for the second time the "52nd Trofeo Luxardo," one of the world cup competitions for men's saber. On the strips of PalaGozzano [sport arena], with semi and finals in the traditional Teatro Verdi [local opera house] the 36 year old from Naples climbed once more, after his success in 1999, to the highest spot on the podium.

The Italian fencer won (15-6) the final against the German Nicolas Limbach, #1 in FIE ranking and the winner in 2006. In the first three DEs he beat the Polish Maciej Regulewski (15-3), the Romanian Cosmin Hanceanu (15-8) and the Spaniard Jorge Pina (15-7).

In quarterfinals he beat his teammate Giampiero Pastore (15-13). Tarantino did start very strong with a partial 6-2 but in the intensity of the bout he hit involuntarily Pastore in the face who collapsed to the ground. After 10 minutes of medical pause, Tarantino continued strong to 13-7. Then Pastore nailed 5 consecutive touches bringing the score 13-12 for Tarantino. The next two touches went one each but after that Tarantino concluded the bout 15-13.

In the semifinal he beat the Romanian Rares Dumitrescu 15-13, the sabreist with the best current record with his three recent victories in Madrid, Warsaw, and Budapest. The bout was very even (7-7, 11-11) and was decided only by the last two touches by Tarantino when they were 13-13.

The final was anticlimactic since Limbach coudn't find the right countermeasures against an opponent who had a great day giving Tarantino an easy win.

Great joy for Tarantino at his first podium of the season after three consec fifth places in Moscow, Plovdiv, and Tunis. "I expected to fence well but I didn't expect to win. The toughest bout was with Dumitrescu, a tough opponent. On the other hand, Limbach fences more in a way which fits my style. Montano and I, if I can say so, at this moment we have something more than the other Italians. The secret? We don't ever waste time, not even during training. Your will to win is what makes the difference."

Aldo Montano finished fifth, beaten in the quarterfinals 15-8 by Dumitrescu. The 29 year old fencer from Leghorn had previously eliminated the Korean Woo Young Won (15-8), and the Chinese Xiao Liu (15-6) and Jingzhi Wang (15-14). Montano is not yet in top form because of a muscular problem but he still had 5 good results this season, after his successes in Tunis and Athens, third place in Plovdiv and sixth in Moscow.
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Maestro Lucio Landi, member of the national coaching team was at the strip subbing for the CT Giovanni Sirovich (he just became a father for the second time), is very pleased: "It was a great victory. Tarantino dominated the number one ranked in the world and the strongest athlete at this moment. Montano did what he could while not being in top shape because of his injury which prevents him to train with continuity. Pastore reconfirmed that this is a good season for him..."

Tomorrow in the team event Italy will face Poland at 9:30 am for the "3rd Trofeo Porsche." The Italian team will be Luigi Tarantino, Giampiero Pastore, Diego Occhiuzzi, and Luigi Samele. Montano can't fence because of an inflamed right knee. Finals from 3 pm in Teatro Verdi.

[telkanuru]

BTW, that's a REALLY nice trophy.

[erooMynohtnA]

Is the trophy the glass thing or that shiny mask? Or does he get both?

[telkanuru]

I was referring to the mask.

[erooMynohtnA]

Doesn't really strike my fancy.

[telkanuru]

[Mr.MightyMouse]

The trophy is indeed - goigeous - looks like a crystal mask - not on the par with Klagenfurt's rose dipped in gold IMHO - but terrific, better looking than Madrid's semifallic bear; sure beats a vacuum cleaner I won once, and promptly left with a local fencer.

[fatfencer]

Tarrantino still going strong at 36! Looking like he is 25 while he cuts his way through the field!

http://timmorehouse.wordpress.com/20...rofeo-luxardo/

As a 30-year-old fencer myself it's exciting to see that I still have a long career ahead of me if I take care of my mind, body and spirit!

Tim, your blog continues to astound me. Well done.

There was this part about the fact that we CAN do this in America.

The sad part was that the pic showing all the different company sponsors...

One of them was Carlson WagonLit Travel. Its parent, Carlson Companies is located in Minnesota. I worked there once upon a time.

I suspect Wagonlit, pronounced: vaa gon lee, is still headquartered there as well.

Why are they sponsoring a foreign competition when the USFA seems to have to hold a bake sale?

Still in an era of econ downturn, companies are still sponsoring things like this. It's perhaps our time, our turn to get our share...

Fatfencer

[Mihail]

So I finally got the videos from Madrid and Padova up. You can see the links here:

http://www.fencingvideos.net/video-d...bre-fie-events

Listen for Tim and James in the top-8 bout between Montano and Dumitrescu, at Luxardo.

[Sean Butler]

LOL! That was great impromptu commentary! I sounded like I was watching a basketball game or something.

[erooMynohtnA]

I thought the audio commentary was amazing, head and shoulders above the first attempt several months back. I watched another bout without it, and it was like watching a loading screen without you guys talking.

A couple questions: The call with Montano and Wang that you mentioned was so controversial, why was that? Because it was so wrong (which seemed to be the implication), or because it was so tight?

Also, do you think Montano's bout with Dumitrescu provided valuable information to Tarantino and is what provided him the edge in his victory?

[gladius]

Also, do you think Montano's bout with Dumitrescu provided valuable information to Tarantino and is what provided him the edge in his victory?

I hope you don't mind if I butt in but with your question you seem to have forgotten that these two fence each other and train together all the time. Montano in Rome and Tarantino in Naples.

In this thread Italian National Championships celebrating 100 years of FIS this weekend you can find the link to the semifinal bout in the senior Italian national championships in Tivoli this past weekend between the two.

http://www.atleticomtv.it/federscherma/index.asp?id=401

In an interview after the tournament was over, Tarantino said that he and Montano are today a tad above everybody else: they train together, they know each other very well, can read each other better than anyone else...and Tarantino wants to continue for many more years to compete because he's having fun...



Check the other bouts and you'll have fun also...

[bigdawg2121]

Ummm...Gladius, I think that if you go back and look again you might find that you are the one who missed the point a bit. Tarantino fenced Dumitrescu in the gold medal bout. Dumitrescu, who has been on a tear for the last few world cup events, fenced and beat Tarantino's teammate and training partner Montano in the previous round. It seems that Anthony wants to know if perhaps Aldo gained some insight into Dumi's fencing (at least for that day) which he may have passed on to Gigi or if perhaps Gigi might have learned something from watching a teammate fence his next opponent.

I'm not sure how your reinforcement of the fact that they train and fence together often helps with the question at all....

[gladius]

I'm not sure how your reinforcement of the fact that they train and fence together often helps with the question at all....

This is what Tarantino said in the interview. You are free to disagree with him of course...