Opinions?

[Purple Fencer]

On my website I've got an informational package designed for fencers going to their first tournament. The URL is http://members.tripod.com/Purple_Fen...p_Package.html

I'd appreciate any positive feedback or suggestions to make it better. I've gotton a lot of good comments from fencers and parents of fencers alike (one person from another salle told me she hands out copies of the package to any parent who starts getting nervous about what's gonna happen at their kid's first tournament), but I always want more feedback.

Thanks.

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[Mergs]

Purple,

I've seen this before and it is absolutely the best thing I've seen! I've used it several times, especially for my beginners. I hope belligerent has seen it.

[Link14]

Purple,

Great Page, mind if I pass it on to our younger fencers? One item that might need clarification is under problems with you tip. The ref can only annul the last point if a tip is discovered to be bad, even if the fencer believes that it was that way for several touches.

[belligerent_sorceress]

The guide is great- thanks for telling me about it. I'm going to work my derriere off tonight and tomorrow night in order to have the best possible chances for the tournament.

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Melissa

"You can beat me, you can bind me, but you can't touch me!

[Purple Fencer]

Mergs, thank you! It's always nice to have your efforts appreciated. I passed on your kid head-butting his opponent story last night. Lotsa laughs around.

Link, ABSOLUTELY go ahead & use it. That's why it's on my site in the first place.

Funny, I thought I'd put in something about the tip. Perhaps I was planning to and forgot. I'll get on it, probably next week if I can get a day or two off work. Likewise the bit about remembering to eat! I think it was you in a different post that mentioned it.

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[damianip]

Sam,

I followed your link and got very indignant when I saw that this Purple Fencer had ripped off Sam Signorelli's excellent little article.

But then I realized: "Purple Fencer"...

You're famous for your socks, right?

Paolo

[Purple Fencer]

Originally posted by damianip:
Sam,

I followed your link and got very indignant when I saw that this Purple Fencer had ripped off Sam Signorelli's excellent little article.

But then I realized: "Purple Fencer"...

You're famous for your socks, right?

Paolo

Paolo, you just made my night

THANK you for being indignant when you thought someone stole my work. It's nice to be appreciated. If I leave no other lasting mark on fencing but that beginner's package, I'll feel like I've accomplished something.

I'm (in)famous for the purple socks, but also my current bag, which I've made reference to before.

Sorry to all that I didn;t fully identify myself before. Wasn't because I was trying to hide my ID like those guys on Fencing Sucks...I just got too lazy. I think I'll change that.

Ciao.

Sam Signorelli


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[EnoYls]

Will the real Sam Signorelli please stand up? Please stand up.

[Purple Fencer]

Originally posted by EnoYls:
Will the real Sam Signorelli please stand up? Please stand up.

I AM standint. Hey. HEY! Over here! (waving arms and jumping like an idiot) No no no, look down...I'm only 5'4"!!!!!

Yes, the secret's out...Sam Signorelli and the Purple Fencer are the same, slightly off-center, balding, cat loving but who still hasn't learned how to parry in sabre guy.

Good enuf?


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[Gav]

Everyone will have to forgive my ignorance!

Purple (or should we call you Sam from now on?)I take it you are a famous american coach. Can we see your biog' please?

[Purple Fencer]

Originally posted by Gav:
Everyone will have to forgive my ignorance!

Purple (or should we call you Sam from now on?)I take it you are a famous american coach. Can we see your biog' please?

Either one's fine.

Me? A famous American coach? You give me FAR too much credit, Gav I'm just a regular fencer like many around here. I don't coach -- don't think I could do it very well -- although everyone passes on tips and advice here and there.

My main goal in writing the prep package originally wa so beginners from my salle would look like they knew what they were doing at thier first tournament, which is a novice foil around these parts. If you're fumbling around, dropping stuff and needing lots of help just to hook up, and your opponent's all done, ready to go and presentign his weapon for the weight test, that's probably gonna make you think "oh no, he's got experience and I don't." It's a little bit of a head game.

I strongly believe that, which one should pay their dues on the piste, it's counter-productive to make them pay those does gettign from the parking lot to the strip. The package was meant to take care of that problem...and to make it so I didn't have to tell the entire thing each time someone wanted to join the circuit. I tend to talk WAY too fast, and reading it is easier than trying to listen to me.

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Sam Signorelli -- I'll be mellow when I'm
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[Shadow Fencer]

Purple aka Sam,
This site was really good for me, as I am returning to the sport after 20+ years and it was very informative! This is good information for everyone to review! Thanks.

[Lumberg]

To the Purple Fencer,
You need to break up that one huge page into a table of contents or index page with links to several sub-pages. That was just way too much info on one page.

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Lumberg.
"...ahhh, we have sort of a problem here... yeah, you apparently didn't put one of the new cover sheets on your TPS report"

[Purple Fencer]

Originally posted by Lumberg:
To the Purple Fencer,
You need to break up that one huge page into a table of contents or index page with links to several sub-pages. That was just way too much info on one page.

Hmmm...good point. I have a couple of days off coming up (hopefully), and updating the package was one of the things I wanted to get to. I'll look at breaking it up then



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[Rapier9mm]

Originally posted by Purple Fencer:
who still hasn't learned how to parry in sabre guy.

Parry? Sabre? try something a little easier, like attacking or distance control, parrying in Saber is like flicking in epeé, real hard...

[Purple Fencer]

Originally posted by Rapier9mm:
Parry? Sabre? try something a little easier, like attacking or distance control, parrying in Saber is like flicking in epeé, real hard...

Oh I don't know. I OCCASIONALLY find a parry in there. The action's correct, I just don't find the blade. I've got our Div II/III sabre quals today, though, so we'll see what happens.

At least I try and do different things in my attacks sometimes. At one of my first DEs I did the same head attack 15 times, and there were 15 pary 5 reposts to my increasingly tender skull. I just coulddn't do anything else, and by the time I was 10 points down, I woudl attack get hit, laugh a lot, and do it again.

Lather, rinse, repeat.

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Sam Signorelli -- I'll be mellow when I'm
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