Captured American in Afghanistan a fencer...

[I_luv_saber]

Maybe it's a classically oriented salle?

[MyrddinsPrecint]

Maybe it's a classically oriented salle?

I thought that, but many media outlets specified that it was "sport" fencing. They could be wrong, the usfa website could be wrong, or it could be one of those weird groups that's not really classical, but not current usfa rules......

And I couldn't find a website for the club to figure that out.

[erik_blank]

Humm... A google search turns up the "Sun Valley Swords Fencing Club" but I cannot find any other reference than the various news feeds....

[Inquartata]

News stories almost always foul up some of the minor details.

Or maybe it's one of those "clubs" that consists of two or three fencers who meet in one of their garages...

[Zilverzmurfen]

News stories almost always foul up some of the minor details.

Or maybe it's one of those "clubs" that consists of two or three fencers who meet in one of their garages...

...takes off their clothes of their upper bodies and whack at each other, trying to do "mensur".

Or worse, they dress up in their home made "armour" and do "fencing".

[I_luv_saber]

Don't pick on the poor SCA guys

[Inquartata]

...takes off their clothes of their upper bodies and whack at each other, trying to do "mensur".

Or worse, they dress up in their home made "armour" and do "fencing".

Possibly. But I know of at least one such "club" locally, and all three of the fencers are A's with national points...

[Inspector Gadget]

If he's a fencer, he'll keep things cool - you know we haven't called our troops horrible names since vietnam, and you know, I don't think we should start - as luck would have it, I never called a tropper a murderer, in fact I dated a vietnam veteran and while his brains was sort of weird from all the acid he dropped while over there, he was a decent person, but we never consumated our relationship. There you have it. Weigh in.