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11-10-2002, 02:48 PM
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#1 | | Just Joined
Join Date: Nov 2002
Posts: 2
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im 17 years old and im very interested in learning how to fence. am i too old to fence or can i still learn how to fence and become reasonably good or do you have to be younger when you start? thanks in advance | 
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11-10-2002, 04:18 PM
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#2 | | Scavenger
Join Date: Feb 2001 Location: Pennsylvania
Posts: 4,601
| It is possible to become reasonably good no matter how old you are when you start. However, it does take a while for most people to learn to fence. It is a sport at which it is possible to excel even if you haven't started as a child, though as a rule of thumb these days it really helps to start early if you plan to go to the Olympics. However, fencing is unusual in being a sport where people of all ages compete on a fairly equal basis.
If it helps, I started at 43 and I've known people who started at all different ages. | |
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11-11-2002, 06:32 PM
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#3 | | Senior Member
Join Date: Mar 2002 Location: NC
Posts: 205
| I hope 17 isn't too old -- I started at 31! | |
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11-11-2002, 07:06 PM
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#4 | | Just Joined
Join Date: Oct 2002
Posts: 15
| I started when I was 20. You've got plenty of time to even reach the higher echelons of the sport. All it takes is the right coach, and plenty of training. | |
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11-12-2002, 09:22 AM
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#5 | | Senior Member
Join Date: Dec 2000 Location: U.S.A.
Posts: 382
|  Muh, ha ha haaaaa! So much fresh meat! | |
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11-12-2002, 04:13 PM
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#6 | | Senior Member
Join Date: Mar 2002 Location: Gulf Coast Division
Posts: 2,401
| My club has a fencer who started at the ripe age of 53. He's 71 now and is just as quick and powerful as myself, 22.
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11-13-2002, 02:00 PM
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#7 | | Just Joined
Join Date: Sep 2002 Location: Utah
Posts: 9
| Hey, i started at 16..ish i'm 17 now, so your not the only one out there ripe for the smashing!
dont give up , try hard, if it's really somthing you want go and do it!! ... ... hm can't think much else, but i'm sure the old senior fencers can help you out here.
tootles
Kawii chibi pikaku (kujaku)
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11-13-2002, 03:10 PM
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#8 | | Senior Member
Join Date: Sep 2002
Posts: 659
| I was in my forties when I started...and my son had already been fencing several years (I started him at the ripe old age of 7). Now, as an early teen, he fences primarily adults. Although he fences one weapon and I fence another, I get constructive criticism from my younger fencers at the club, and then again in private from my child on the ride home. Many of the moves come to him so naturally, he has trouble envisioning why an adult (let alone an older adult) can't just get it ingrained in them the way he has it ingrained in him. Oh, well - at least he has something to talk about. | |
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11-13-2002, 06:52 PM
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#9 | | Just Joined
Join Date: Nov 2002
Posts: 2
| thanks for all the help guys, all i have to do now is find a place in the toronto area to learn how to fence, my community centre doesnt offer lessons until next october  | |
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