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Post by cw6jess on Jul 16, 2012 15:23:51 GMT -5
As the title reads. But does anyone here actually fence? I used to fence a lot in High School, but the rapier I bought got stolen when I was moving and I haven't had the cash to replace it. :/
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Post by Glutton4Punishment on Jul 17, 2012 14:03:47 GMT -5
I have a good friend from childhood that's got autism. While my other friends and I grew up, he sort of stayed a kid. Back when we were kids we'd play with those hard plastic toy light sabers in our back yards (the ones that were extra thick plastic and didn't light up so you could thump on them) and we'd play with them so hard we'd have a few bruises after. But I usually killed him at it.
Fast forward to today, he took up fencing while I was focused on unarmed martial arts. As I said, he never really grew up so he has a ton of toys. Legos mostly, but also Nerf stuff. Now they make swords, and he bought a pair of them a while back so I occasionally have a Nerf duel with him (yeah, I know, 22 is too old for things like that but he's autistic so I have an excuse!). Well he absolutely destroys be now after having done fencing. Without the swords it'd be no contest and I'd whoop him, but he doesn't have any sockem boppers. So I usually just get my ass kicked with a damn Nerf sword 9 times out of 10.
It's pretty awesome, though. I'm looking forward to Olympic fencing. Those guys are lightning fast.
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Post by odee on Jul 18, 2012 5:04:25 GMT -5
I got to do it for about three months because I was rooming with a guy who did it at university. I never had a chance, the tip of that thing just moved too fast for me to respond to it. No human strike ever comes close to what a guy who is good with those things can accomplish. If someone can actually track the tip of a foil I reckon they'd be able to watch the pellets in trap shooting.
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Post by Chef Samurai on Jul 18, 2012 10:25:05 GMT -5
lol man my I love the art of offence & defence (hence the name fence)
I'm not a big fan of modern french fencing but I love classical fencing because it's so adaptable & variable.
My favourite book's are brief instructions upon my paradoxes of defence by george silver from 1605, the english master of defence by zach wylde in 1711 and cornish hug wrestler by thomas parkyns in 1728.
They basically show you the evolution from fencing to boxing & wrestling which I think is very interesting & important from a historical standpoint IMO.
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Post by odee on Jul 18, 2012 15:30:27 GMT -5
Classical fencing? You mean with broadswords and those big swords that are like an extended axe?
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Post by Chef Samurai on Jul 18, 2012 16:19:32 GMT -5
Classical fencing? You mean with broadswords and those big swords that are like an extended axe? what do you mean by broad sword & extend axe sword lol there are tons of different styles called broadswords & the egyptian kopesh is the only thing I can think of and then no lol errrr it's really...really complicated and my grammar is bad to say the least so I don't want to write a text wall but according to one source you could say as far back as the roman empire to the advent of pure sport fencing in the late 1700s.
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Post by odee on Jul 20, 2012 2:31:13 GMT -5
By broadsword I meant symetrical, cross-shaped swords...so pretty much everything from the Gladious to the William Wallace style Claymore and Arming swords. I hate the term Claymore. Just means "f**king big blade and can mean any of three uniquely Scottish designs. Damn the bloody highlanders for not giving names to individual swords and not categorising them.
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Post by Chef Samurai on Jul 25, 2012 16:22:47 GMT -5
yeah true enough they didn't categorize their weapons that well lol
but again the human body can only do so much and if you do the math right 2 + 2 always equals 4 and that's why so many styles have similarities. even though they are from opposite sides of the planet and from different time periods.
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Post by odee on Jul 26, 2012 8:43:00 GMT -5
Because no Japanese person wants to admit that Sumo wrestling came from the Mongolian wrestling festivals. No Scottish clansman wants to admit their fighting style bears any resemblance to an "English bastard's" and no student who has the shits with his teacher is going to name their style after the guy who taught them.
Ah pride. You're a bitch of a mistress yet I can't seem to dump you and find a better one.
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Post by Chef Samurai on Jul 26, 2012 13:41:37 GMT -5
so true it's like how the english basically disowned anything to do with kicking because the french liked to do it and the english really hated the french lol
taekwondo, karate & kung fu all share common roots but the politics prevent any sort of co operation amongst the practitioners and they all tend to trash talk each other.
politics can get interesting to say the least.
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