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  1. 01-11-2004 01:46 AM #1
    Black Jeebus
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    How long have you been fencing?

    We can see how long everyone's been a member here, but how long has everyone been fencing?
    I started a few months ago in October.
    Hello.
  2. 01-11-2004 06:20 AM #2
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    I was just working this out tonight at the pool hall trying to work out how long I had known someone. It will be 6 years this May. I can now say I am in the top 10 nationally (but only just and its going to be REAL hard to keep that top 10 spot).
    Theses are evil....VERY evil, someone rescue me pls!
  3. 01-11-2004 08:24 AM #3
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    7 years, or thereabouts
    Only started taking it seriosly around 18months ago though.
  4. 01-11-2004 09:02 AM #4
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    I have been fencing longer than many member have been alive. (sigh.... time flies when you're having fun)
    took my first fencing class in August of 1981.
    If you give a man a fire, he is warm for the night.
    If you set a man on fire, he is warm for the rest of his life.
  5. 01-11-2004 10:55 AM #5
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    I've been fencing for 1 year exactly.
    touche'!
  6. 01-11-2004 11:49 AM #6
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    nine long years. and i probably should be better than i am for the length of time, but mediocrity comes from only going once every week or 2 weeks. but now that i have started fencing in college, i practice much more.
    "Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months."

    "Women have a much better time than men in this world. There are far more things forbidden to them."
  7. 01-11-2004 02:00 PM #7
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    About 2 and a half years.
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  8. 01-11-2004 02:38 PM #8
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    Two years when this semester starts
  9. 01-11-2004 02:43 PM #9
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    34 years. I'm sure there are others on the board with even longer "time on strip".
    "In theory, theory and practice are the same, but in practice, theory and practice are different."
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    a few months shy of two years.
    Fencing will always be a "for love of the game" sport.

    I need a good arse kicking to get better, faster!
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    3 years. Now Getting back into it after taking a twelve break
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    'bout 8. Started in high school.
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    a few months under two years
    Save the baby humans!
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    21 years. I do not count the two brief classes in foil which went before...
  15. 01-11-2004 09:01 PM #15
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    2 and a half years. . .
    Homestarrunner forever!~!
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    It's not easy making this look easy.
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    Maybe 10 years? Something like that. And I watched my daughter fence for a couple of years before that.

    I really oughta start figuring out how to do it one of these days. I have faith. It's gonna happen.
    "Arm yourself, Watson, there is an evil hand afoot ahead." -- Dennis Pierce, 2010 Bulwer-Lytton contest, detective fiction category runner-up.
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    Coming up on 10 months now...but on the strip it sometimes looks like 10 minutes.
  19. 01-12-2004 10:42 AM #19
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    Two years come May.

    Maybe I should update my profile with that.
    Drinks all around!
  20. 01-12-2004 06:42 PM #20
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    I started as a beginner in 1980, and now teach where I first learned. Took one year off in 1983 when I transferred to Michigan State, then took it up again when I found out there was a varsity fencing team there. Made the travel team my senior year. Graduated, moved home, and became the assistant. Coach left, and I got the job. I've since taught somewhere between 1,500-2,000 people how to fence. Of course, not all of them are still fencing, but a good bunch still do fence.
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