Please add to this: The top 100 reasons you know u r about to be beaten by your next

[canthidefromme]

Originally posted by Marcos
you are 14-0 down with 30 secs to go

when you're down 14-0 with 510 seconds to go (8 1/2 minutes)

[DarkAcolyte]

When your opponent approaches the pool, all of the other fencers commit seppuku.

You've noticed a sudden growth in the number of wheelchair fencers in your weapon after the first two days of the tournament.

Your opponent uses a human femur as a back scratcher.

He/She burps and a human toe flies out out of their mouth.

[Talyn]

When instead of trying to win the bout, you're trying to get 1 point.

This happened to me with Frank hehehehe

[grphiw]

When there are several ambulance chasers standing to the side, and holding prewritten legal documents and a pen.

If it's epee, when you test the bell guard he does it so fast that you don't see it, but you hear it as it gouges a fairly large dent into the metal.

If it's sabre, it's when he raises his weapon to salute it scratches against your mask, leaving sparks.

If it's foil, it's you shake hands, he points out exactly where he's going to hit you in what sequence with what. And he does. 15-0.

[Indy4ever]

when after four hits he has already made a small yet agonising wound in your back through judicious use of flicks with his epee, and you know, just know, that that is the only move he will have to use in the whole match.

[dunastor]

You know you're going to lose when


The best attack in your life ends with a point for the other guy...

[swordAlys]

you dreamed the night before that you were the Duc de Chastaigneraie...... and you suddenly remember that dream when you first see your next opponent lol.

[KShan5[PrFC]]

They are listed on Fencing.net as "Expert".

[arcon]

One of my first competitive bouts was with an former Olympic partisipant.
Of course i didnt know this at the time. When out of curiousity
I asked the director about my opponent he said ,"dont get
near him". Well, the director was right. My foil point didnt get
anywhere near him but he was all over me.

[arcon]

Nobody watches the bout and its the guy whos seeded the highest. And its not you.