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Re: yeahbut by FABIO 08/31/2004, 10:40pm PDT
Worm wrote:

Foil fencing isn't anything like being a Knight, Samurai, or Highlander.

I took a class in college and there were a load of idiots who wanted to use sabers it makes them more like Sir Duncan Mccloud-sama, faggots who swing the foil like it's a movie, one idiot who had a stance like a queer Jedi not Luke or Kenobi but one of the yellow off species Jedi that are added just to have a "quick fighter" in a beat 'em up, and there was some idiot who wouldn't even go for touches he'd just smack people with the foil because he was a spaz. Yes, anything with swords attracts fags, but fags aren't the only people who do things with swords.


How about the people that take advantage of the fact that they're basically duelling with metal spaghetti and use the thing more like a whip ("flicking") than a SWORD? Flicking is the fencing equivalent to bunny hopping in a FPS to avoid headshots, it's not cheating but is still mostly looked upon as being gay.

I never understood why anyone would consider the saber (the edge as well as the point can be used to score, anywhere above the waist is a valid target) fun. 80% of the matches last 2 seconds and are pretty much both people running straight at each other, hitting each other at the same time, then watching as the director ponders over who had the right of way (aided by his own hand gestures) until he announces who got the point.

Though, I think people who pay for their equipment, join a league, and regularly Fence just like the sport.


Those people always seemed to treat the whole thing like a religion (hence the offense at using the wrong terminology, almost like asking a priest about "that wafer cracker thing"). That's really what ultimately killed the fun of the whole thing. That always seems to happen with most sports that try to simulate combat, you have the wacko Nam wannabes in paintball, the militaristic martial arts people straight out of The Karate Kid's dragon dojo, and the fencing people who insist on teaching you "the history behind the sport" and putting everyone through months of footwork only before they're deemed worthy enough to even hold a SWORD. These were at schools where the fencing group was just a club, I'd hate to see how anal they are where it's an official school team.
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Finally! by mark 08/30/2004, 1:35pm PDT NEW
    Re: Finally! by laudablepuss 08/30/2004, 1:48pm PDT NEW
        Re: Finally! by FABIO 08/30/2004, 4:58pm PDT NEW
            Re: Finally! by Zseni 08/30/2004, 5:43pm PDT NEW
                I just moved and my neighbors have a Segway. :( NT by I need clarification 08/30/2004, 11:09pm PDT NEW
                fencing! by FABIO 08/30/2004, 11:54pm PDT NEW
                    Re: fencing! by laudablepuss 08/31/2004, 11:45am PDT NEW
                        Re: fencing! by FABIO 08/31/2004, 1:15pm PDT NEW
                    Re: fencing! by Zseni 08/31/2004, 11:51am PDT NEW
                        *bonks you with nerf fencing sword* NT by FABIO 08/31/2004, 1:09pm PDT NEW
                    Re: fencing! by Entropy Stew 08/31/2004, 12:40pm PDT NEW
                        Hobbies. Any hobbies. by Fussbett 08/31/2004, 1:19pm PDT NEW
                            Here I go avoiding his posts, only to get snooped in the end NT by Entropy Stew 08/31/2004, 1:31pm PDT NEW
                        Re: fencing! by FABIO 08/31/2004, 1:41pm PDT NEW
                            Re: fencing! by Fullofkittens 08/31/2004, 5:09pm PDT NEW
                                Re: fencing! by FABIO 08/31/2004, 10:10pm PDT NEW
                            yeahbut by Worm 08/31/2004, 5:29pm PDT NEW
                                Re: yeahbut by FABIO 08/31/2004, 10:40pm PDT NEW
    Can't be any more retarded than DOOM: the book series NT by Masked Man 08/30/2004, 3:15pm PDT NEW
        I really liked those books. NT by Worm 08/30/2004, 3:38pm PDT NEW
 
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