ah, fencing.
the one sport i'm keen on.
as i like to say, its like a physical game of chess.

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what can I say? great!

only the ones who practise it know its essence.

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Beautiful rythem. Two of my greatest pleasures are fencing and poetry. What blade do you fence?

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aa you do fence..... lovely...... i myself am an epeeist.......just curious....do you compete in usfa??

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I have a membership but I couldn't compete in the last tournament. I just got my membership about 3 months ago.

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so have ya done any qualifiers at all or competed??? im fairly sure theres like 1-2 qualifiers left for foilists.....all well....... are ya any good?? if ya are i strongly suggest finding the first qualifier and make the grade to go to san jose this year for summer nationals

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I'm not summer nationals good, but i'm alright. I recently joined my club's competative class and i'm still not as good as most of the guys. It kinda sucks being the only girl. There is an event comming up that I would go to accept I have something going on with quartet stuff that day.

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main thing i notice between girls and guys in fencing is that guys are more aggressive, that really seems to be the big difference from what i can tell, and hell in epee atleast it puts the girl in a better position cause all she has to do is wait for us to attack and then pop us on the wrist.......... 1 light point to my left..........in foil ya need a bit more finese not sure how you stack up against the guys in terms of strength and speed, but maybe you can out think em afterall it is physical chess...... try controlling the tempo a bit and then breaking it at your will........ maybe an advance feint retreat into an advance slide bind 6 or 8 once in awhile

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“It pays to be obvious, especially if you have a reputation for subtlety.”
- Isaac Asimov (1920-1992)

Yeh, I'm pretty fast, it's just that most of them have been fencing for at least 4 years. I've been fencing for about 1.5 years. I tried fencing epee a couple of times and now I have the bad habbit of doing opposition parries all the time XP >.< They're all a lot taller than me too -_-'

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Those who can laugh without cause have either found the true meaning of happiness or have gone stark raving mad. Truly great madness cannot be achieved without significant intelligence.

ya mind binds??..........i only have 2 yrs experience under my belt so thats not much of an excuse lol.....opposition parries are awesome...... if they work your opponent cant hit you ........i like them alot more than a normal foil parry.... tis the nature of an epeeist

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“It pays to be obvious, especially if you have a reputation for subtlety.”
- Isaac Asimov (1920-1992)