Why fencing?

[Joan of Ark]

I was wondering, of all the sports why did you chose fencing?

I started 2 years after my brother. The reason I started was because I was tired of being left at home with my little brother twice a week. I stuck with it because I took to it naturaly and because I wanted to be different from everyone else, yet still have a group to asociate with.

[Soldier]

I've been in love with any kind of swordfighting for as long as I can remember.

[Louweasel]

I wanted to do some sport at university, but didn't want to continue the netball, hockey etc I did at school because I never really enjoyed it. Wanted to get some exercise but the gym bores me rigid.
So I thought fencing would be interesting, unusual and absorbing. And it is!

Plus my surname is Parry, so I think it was fate....

[Delmont]

I just love swords. Any and all kinds. The more kinds I know how to use the happier I am Plus its just plain fun.

[pkt]

Like boys of any culture, I've always played with swords...

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[Katman]

I wanted to learn to stab people and swing from chandilers with a rose between my teeth. One out of two ain't bad at all.

[The0ne]

I had recently gotten out of martial arts (did Kung Fu for like a year and a half) and wanted to do some sort of combat exercise. Found a fencing club and voila! I've tried many, many other sports, and they don't even compare, the only one that came close to picking fencing out was running.

[pkt]

Originally posted by Katman
I wanted to learn to stab people and swing from chandilers with a rose between my teeth. One out of two ain't bad at all.

D'oh! That's one out of three, or did I count wrong?

A piece of gum inside your mouth while you fence is not the same as a rose...

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[lfortier]

I never really enjoyed team sports that much, and I was pretty much a clumsy oaf having anything to do with balls. After hearing that there were clubs in my town from a friend, I became so excited- even though I bugged my parents for a year before I took my first lessons; But since then, I'm hooked on the sport.

[pkt]

Originally posted by The0ne
... I've tried many, many other sports, and they don't even compare, the only one that came close to picking fencing out was running.

Well, first off, I don't understand your "come close to picking fencing out..." - hey, I'm just an ESL-person [English as a Second Language] -.

Running?

Running has to be one of the most boring sport!
One definitely has to be "no-mind" while running. It's so numbing, so numbingly dull.

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[Katman]

Originally posted by pkt
D'oh! That's one out of three, or did I count wrong?

A piece of gum inside your mouth while you fence is not the same as a rose...

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I counted the rose and the swinging as one thing, not two. I do remember a photo on a website (John?) of a fencer who had crafted a rose through the lower half of his mask as a joke, to make it look as if he were fencing with a rose in his teeth.

Oh, and a correction. It's chandelier. Blargh.

[Iwant2bafencer]

I like to run when I feel the need to move and have a lot on my mind that I need to clear up, or when I'm really mad. The mad part fits in with the entire Nike pitch on 'What Women Want'. So if you've seen it you should understand a little.

Let's see I've always been in love with anything mideval. Stories (book stories, myths, legends (Camalot, Avalon, Aurthor, etc) etc.), castles, their way of living for that time, and then swords. So, I began to be intrigued about fencing when I first saw the newest 'Parent Trap'. Their camp had fencing, couple years later I began looking around for it.

Another reason is after I fence my adrenaline is pumping like no other. It's the same feeling you get after coming out of a really good haunted house. At first you just want to fall over, and then you're just ready to go go go for the next two hours.

[Black Jeebus]

I like martial arts. I like competition. I like swords.

[Socrates]

I love the game; mental and physical, the timing, the movement.. least of all the competition.

[Zelda]

People who know me say I have an overdeveloped sense of vegence...its probably true. I am notouriously BAD at most sports. Fencing is something I have always wanted to do but never had the chance to until about 5 years ago. Blame my ex, he dumped me, I needed to take it out on someone/thing. Fencing was the topic of conversation @ my dads work, he booked me in for my beginners course and the rest is history.

[thyme_daniels]

my dad fenced in high school, and he has been doing it ever since, so i grew up around it and fell into it. when i started i knew that it was my sport, so i just went with it. can't fight that natural instinct.

[Thomas]

Ive studyed many forms of combat from many different parts of the world. So I decided to add fencing to my list.

[deadly lefty]

I wandered in to the YMCA to see people fighting with swords I was signed up the next day

[Inquartata]

I didn't choose it; it chose me. Which is to say that, as several others have noted, the fascination with swords and swordplay has always been there, percolating in my subconscious. It eventually emerged not only in fencing but in a lifelong interest in hoplology, in swashbuckling movies, fantasy fiction involving pre-industrial sword-using cultures, in collecting swords ( and axes, and spears, and daggers, and armour, and... ), in the SCA and Living History and the longsword and rapier play and....

[Peach]

I wasn't as sophisticated or purposeful as Inquartata, I just always liked hitting .

I started because I'm lousy at being a sports mom and my kid had been fencing for a couple of years, and it looked as if it might be fun if I could figure it out. And it was fun.