07-29-2003, 06:38 PM
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#41 | | Senior Member
Join Date: Mar 2003 Location: Austin, TX
Posts: 367
| (high five!)
I've noticed a surprising lack of fellow gamers in fencing....
My guess is they've decided they'd rather fight with swords than pretend to fight with swords...
Either that, or they're all doing SCA or Amtgard. | 
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07-29-2003, 11:36 PM
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#42 | | Senior Member
Join Date: Dec 2002 Location: Lemont, IL
Posts: 349
| I had a nice attack cry tonight... a guy in my club put Queen's "Bohemian Rhapsody" on the radio and turned the volume up. I was in the middle of a practice bout with a teammate. I began hopping about a bit to the beat and singing along loudly, much to the amusement of my opponent. At the appropriate moment (right after "easy come, easy go"), I yelled "Bis-MEL-a!" and fleched successfully with a direct attack in 4 for a hit. 
Oh, and "Mama mia" doesn't work as well as "bismela." I got hit on the riposte when that came up. | |
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07-30-2003, 01:02 AM
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#43 | | Senior Member
Join Date: Aug 2001 Location: Utah
Posts: 423
| Oh yes, there are definitely screamers in the US as well. There is one woman in particular who is rather infamous for not just screaming but out and out screeching. Seriously, it sounds like someone is being severely injured. I thought she did sabre, but I was informed that she was foilist. Maybe (gasp) there's more than one who sound the same. I don't know if it's the fencer who was mentioned earlier since I was volunteering at the event in question and had my back to the strips during her bouts.
As for me, it's odd. In regular life I'm very vocal--I'm forever frightening my cat because I scream for pretty trivial reasons(say I died in my computer adventures and haven't saved for about two hours) and she thinks it's a force 10 emergency. On strip I have to make a specific effort to make any noise, so I hope seemingly dead calm is scary. When I do vocalize I usually do something resembling "Lah!", or--taking a page from my cat-- I growl or say "Arr-RUHRR!!".
I did try barking once too just when I was fooling around since a friend of mine complained that when she tries to vocalize she sounds like a poodle.
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07-30-2003, 03:57 AM
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#44 | | Moderator
Join Date: Aug 2000 Location: Scotland
Posts: 4,630
| Personally I think a lot of these piercing screeches that I hear coming from the Women Fencers is quite annoying however I have my own bad habits. When I make a mistake I've a habit of shouting, "Oh No!". Recently I've noticed that even when I've made a mistake I've still hit and so the "Oh No!" just makes me look a bit of an arse. | |
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07-30-2003, 05:31 PM
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#45 | | Senior Member
Join Date: Jul 2003 Location: Los Angeles
Posts: 302
| The most vocal I get is something of a dissatisfied 'ah' when I do something very poorly. A guy at my club has a habit of saying "Hmmm..." in bouts. | |
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07-31-2003, 09:54 AM
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#46 | | Senior Member
Join Date: Feb 1999 Location: Australia - various
Posts: 2,756
| I've just realised that I tend to moan "Pooooooint on" when I miss a riposte. I tend to be doing that a lot lately! I can parry (I've been told that I'm getting harder to hit) but landing a riposte (especially when fencing steam) is like looking for a needle in a haystack!
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08-10-2003, 07:17 PM
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#47 | | Member
Join Date: Aug 2003 Location: Georgia
Posts: 32
| I've always heard the Blood curtling Shrill screams, but one time i heard this guy get a counter attack touch and went UNNNNNNNNNNNNNHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!! he sounded like a mummy it was funny!  | |
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08-10-2003, 07:52 PM
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#48 | | Senior Member
Join Date: Jun 2003 Location: Massachusetts
Posts: 2,128
| I scream, you scream, we all scream in sabre
Can a fencer be carded for yelling too loudly during a bout?
I emit a variety of roars: 'NO!!' or 'OH!!' any time I attack, 'AIYAAH!!' after I make a touch, and "YEAH-HAH!!' (accompanied by a tiny jump) after I make a fantabulous touch. When touches are scored against me, I make a whimpering noise like "noooo..." (hard to describe; I can only produce it while in the heat of battle).
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08-11-2003, 06:39 PM
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#49 | | Senior Member
Join Date: Feb 2003 Location: Vancouver, BC, the WET coast of Canada
Posts: 1,971
| The most stupid battle cry I've come across was
eee-orr
as in the cry of a donkey or a 3-letter word starting a_s.
The user seemed to be very proud of crying it since his girlfriend responded in kind. Must have been some kind of personal, secret joke.
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08-11-2003, 08:46 PM
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#50 | | Senior Member
Join Date: May 2003 Location: kodiak!
Posts: 153
| from rvergara ~
Some cries in Spanish, huh?
- the common "toma!", means take that!
- "servido!", means you're served, like when the waiter gives you what you ordered.
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If I'm fencing a very aggressive person, or if I want them to be aggressive I sometimes, `quietly` suggest to them "Venga! Toro!! Venga!!" Which, I believe means the equivilent of "Bring it Bull!! Bring it!!" It's a bull fighting cry from something I read. I detest the "sport" of bull fighting but I thought the cry was cool sounding.
Venga Toro!! VENGA!!! | |
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08-11-2003, 09:20 PM
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#51 | | Curmudgeon-in-Chief
Join Date: Jul 2001 Location: Somewhere in your nightmares!
Posts: 23,534
| Re: I scream, you scream, we all scream in sabre
Quote: Originally posted by poor_nizzie
Can a fencer be carded for yelling too loudly during a bout?
| Can be? Probably. Ever will be? I doubt it. If it was likely, it would have happened to certain young individuals of the female sabre-fencing persuasion by now... | |
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08-11-2003, 09:34 PM
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#52 | | Senior Member
Join Date: Sep 2001
Posts: 1,585
| Re: Re: I scream, you scream, we all scream in sabre
Quote: Originally posted by Inquartata
Can be? Probably. Ever will be? I doubt it. If it was likely, it would have happened to certain young individuals of the female sabre-fencing persuasion by now... | Sorry to disagree with you Inky but, the bout between Benjamin Bratton and Timothy Sherrill in San Diego was the most prolonged obnoxious loud and just plain IDIOTIC thing I have ever seen at a fencing meet.
Women Sabrists may scream but it is usually short, to the point and then over.
Who screams so much? I can think of a few women sabrists but not many.
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08-11-2003, 09:35 PM
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#53 | | Just Joined
Join Date: Aug 2003 Location: Planet Omicron Theta
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| Personally, my opinion on battle cries is: the funnier the cry the more effective it is. Let loose with a good, hearty, "Spoogadinky!" and strike while your opponent is keeled over laughing.
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08-11-2003, 09:57 PM
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#54 | | Curmudgeon-in-Chief
Join Date: Jul 2001 Location: Somewhere in your nightmares!
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| Re: Re: Re: I scream, you scream, we all scream in sabre
Quote: Originally posted by Mo
Sorry to disagree with you Inky but, the bout between Benjamin Bratton and Timothy Sherrill in San Diego was the most prolonged obnoxious loud and just plain IDIOTIC thing I have ever seen at a fencing meet.
Women Sabrists may scream but it is usually short, to the point and then over.
Who screams so much? I can think of a few women sabrists but not many. | Well, there was one at the Reno NAC 2 years ago who had people three strips away putting their fingers in their ears.
There's another who bends double while shrieking, apparently the better to get better volume and continuity.
I prefer not to name names...
Didn't see the bout you mention, and can only go by my own experience...though with a name like BRATton obnoxious behavior wouldn't surprise me...  | |
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08-11-2003, 11:02 PM
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#55 | | Senior Member
Join Date: Mar 2003 Location: Ecuador
Posts: 196
| Also a good one is "Olé!" when I do a esquive against a fleche. Really pisses off the other fencer.
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08-12-2003, 05:26 AM
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#56 | | Just Joined
Join Date: Aug 2003
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| Attack cries
I have a different cry that never heared elsewhere: "ming" whenever I make a touch and "ops"and a sound hard to write, but you can guess if you are familiar with the cats, like the growl of a wildcat. | |
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08-12-2003, 06:43 AM
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#57 | | Senior Member
Join Date: Jun 2003
Posts: 342
| Hi, I just spent almost 7 hours working on my computer, and found I had archived my kernel32dll files, for 8 days, then I installed AOL.
MING is my favorite chinese word and character, well, one of them. It's great as an attack you will feel bright, because the symbols use the moon and sun together [at least in my book of characters].
fencing rules forever! | |
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08-12-2003, 05:55 PM
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#58 | | Member
Join Date: May 2003 Location: Kansas
Posts: 84
| ive fenced somone whe will shout "ha!" or "hello!!!!!" or "now ive got you!!!" whenever he is sure that he is about to make a touch
...it's really quite annoying
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