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Old 09-04-2009, 12:26 PM   #1
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Hello everyone, I am very interested in learning to fence Sabre, but I can't afford the full set of gear and lessons/club fees at the moment. I have purchased an S2000 sabre, a glove, and fencing shoes so that I can practice at home. If anybody has any good methods for practicing at home, please let me know! =)
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Hello everyone, I am very interested in learning to fence Sabre, but I can't afford the full set of gear and lessons/club fees at the moment. I have purchased an S2000 sabre, a glove, and fencing shoes so that I can practice at home. If anybody has any good methods for practicing at home, please let me know! =)
Find a friend who actually fences sabre to give you some privates....you really can't learn from a book...at least not without seeing it first.

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I am very interested in learning to fence Sabre. If anybody has any good methods for practicing at home, please let me know! =)
Get a pair of heavy dumbbells and carry them around constantly, thereby stretching your arms so that you knuckles reach all the way to the ground.
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Get a pair of heavy dumbbells and carry them around constantly, thereby stretching your arms so that you knuckles reach all the way to the ground.
You forgot the required growth of a beetle-brow...

TrebleFox....so you understand this....the long-standing joke is that sabeurs are nothing more than knuckle-dragging Neanderthals...even though the game is far more subtle than that...it ain't all *grunt grunt....Thag lunge!*

if the Geico cavemen fenced, they'd fence sabre....
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No, everybody would expect them to fence sabre... Just like you, you cavemanist!

In reality, they'd actually fence epee, because they're classy like that.
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Very droll! Know any more good jokes like that? I can use the laughs.

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footwork, footwork, footwork, practice cuts, you can find instructional videos online, make sure you are using your wrist instead of your whole arm, etc. good luck! Sabre is a great weapon!
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