Neanderpundit

Saturday 17 Dec 2011

En Garde

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14 Responses to “En Garde”

1. on 17 Dec 2011 at 10:48 am   Paul b
   
   

   Points are covered and face masks are worn. Whats not to like?

2. on 17 Dec 2011 at 1:40 pm   Rey B
   
   

   I teach summers at Culver Military Academy’s Woodcraft Camp. One of the programs available to 9-13 year old kids is fencing. Fun to watch.

3. on 17 Dec 2011 at 1:51 pm   Og
   
   

   Daughter is fencing a girl from culver right now.

4. on 17 Dec 2011 at 3:36 pm   Ed Hering
   
   

   WHY WAS THIS NEVER OFFERED AT MY SCHOOL??

   –wait, I know this one: “BECAUSE MY SCHOOL SUCKED ASS, THAT’S WHY!!!”

   *sigh*

   I would have loved fencing.

   That’s another thing Japanese schools have on ours: some have kendo clubs.

5. on 17 Dec 2011 at 4:39 pm   maddmedic
   
   

   Good work!!!
   Gotta teach the little ones certain “dark arts” these days!!

   My boyz took boxing, Tae Kwan Do, a little Haidong Gumdo(Korean type fencing)receiving some colored belts of some sort, all before they reached High School…Shoot most of it while in Elementary School..

   Such a neanderthal I am according to my female leftist siblings…Wait..Neanderthal, Neanderthal, why does that sound familiar around here?

6. on 17 Dec 2011 at 5:07 pm   og
   
   

   Ed: Yo can learn fencing five or six miles from your house.

   http://nwifencingclub.com/2401.html

   I’m thinking of taking lessons. We’ll be signing the oglet up as soon as we can.

7. on 17 Dec 2011 at 7:44 pm   DirtCrashr
   
   

   I used to do that in college, it was a lot of fun but you get a lot of funny round bruises even with all the gear. Saber was slightly more fun once foil was mastered. Teacher was a member of the one-and-only U.S. foil team ever to win gold, at the 1970 World Masters’ Foil Championships. Cool guy, knows his practice and the psychology of it.

8. on 17 Dec 2011 at 8:35 pm   Og
   
   

   Very cool, Dirt. Might have to get some of those videos for the oglet

9. on 17 Dec 2011 at 10:07 pm   emdfl
   
   

   Learned fencing and then taught it for a few years at the local PAL(Police Athletic League). We had an Italian Olympic Champion(1930’s) who would come in every now and then to give lessons. Guy was in his 70’s and could take anybody we had.
   It’s a great sport that will keep you lean and mean as long as you participate.

10. on 17 Dec 2011 at 11:00 pm   John Lien
    
    

    Our teenage daughter has been fencing epee for a few years now. The action is too fast for me to figure out what is going on. I have to wait for the lights to light up to see who got the point, which is the person who didn’t get the point, if you get my point. The sport tends to attract nice-geeky kids.

11. on 17 Dec 2011 at 11:51 pm   Jim
    
    

    Only fencing I’ve had the dubious pleasure of experiencing, involved a post-hole digger, Quickcrete and several thousand pounds of lumber.

    It nearly foiled me.

    Jim
    Sunk New Dawn
    Galveston, TX

12. on 18 Dec 2011 at 1:19 am   Mark Alger
    
    

    Heh. The non-French foils have what’s called a pistol grip. If you used one in a robbery, you could go in and say, “Give me all your money. This is a wrapup.”

    Heh. I slay me.

    M

    P.S. Yes, that joke originated when I was 9 or 10 and hanging around fencing meets with the Colonel. Blame it on my actually BEING puerile at the time.

13. on 18 Dec 2011 at 8:22 pm   Rivrdog
    
    

    Good for kidz, but, OTOH, it might have inspired the Darth DoDo here in PDX…

    http://tiny.cc/6gqzl

14. on 25 Dec 2011 at 12:29 am   Russ
    
    

    Huh! I was an epee fencer in HS and for a couple of years of club fencing in college. I actually had a half a ride to Saint John’s University. Why I didn’t take it is another “what the hell was I thinking” story. I regularly took lessons from Giorgio Santelli in his place in Greenwich Village, NYC. It’s a great sport, conditioning and breath control is paramount. The psychology is similar to wrestling and boxing and it is most assuredly a martial art. Forty-five years later and I still have the reaction time of a snake.

    Russ

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