Re: (TFT) Polyhedral Weapon Heresy

[Joey Beutel <mejobo@comcast.net>]

My issue with epee is that it seemed like "cheap" hits (hits that don't seem very likely to do much in real life) seemed somewhat dominant... the jumping forward and tapping the guy's foot while using the sword like a whip... its fine for sport, I don't "dislike" it, but from a more martial arts stand point it seemed a bit silly.
On Aug 12, 2013, at 6:50 PM, John Linzy wrote:

> I liked foil because the limited target area (the trunk of the body) forced
> a little more strategy into the sword play.  Epee is fun because you can
> take what you learned in foil and then apply it to the entire body as a
> target.  Nothing like stopping someone in mid lunge by a stop-thrust to the
> inside of the elbow or the front of the mask :-)
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> To me saber is just a couple of guys slashing away at each other hoping to
> hit before the other does.......
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>   Epee is easiest to understand first one to land gets the point, if
> simultaneous both get a point.  Foil and Sabre have right away rules i.e. if
> I attack you can counter attack but if I hit you I get the point.  Sabre and
> Foil is an easy transition, actually Peter Westbrook a whole bunch of times
> national sabre champ and 3rd at the 84 Games fenced foil in a team event and
> won all his bouts against big time competition.
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>     Subject: Re: (TFT) Polyhedral Weapon Heresy
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>       My very limited experience with fencing (I was a good amateur for
> about three months before life got in the way) was definitely that I
> preferred foil and saber... is that a weird combination? Seems like epee is
> most popular though foil is most common.
>         On Aug 12, 2013, at 3:56 PM, John Linzy wrote:
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>> We did all three swords but I preferred foil and epee
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>> I got moved from foil to epee fairly quickly. I was fast as a
> snake back then, and couldn't quite grasp right of way (These days, my grasp
> would have been sufficient. Foil has fallen quite a ways.). Never did much
> sabre.
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>> Neil Gilmore
>> raito@raito.com
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>>> I knew him, but the team coach was Tony Gilliam. My brother
> fenced at
>>> UW in the 70s, in fact 3 of us went there we all specialized in
> Sabre
>>> but I was also good in foil.
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