Re: (TFT) Polyhedral Weapon Heresy

[Jay Carlisle <maou.tsaou@gmail.com>]

>> To me saber is just a couple of guys slashing away at each other hoping
to
hit before the other does....

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rBTtq2Gzm6w


On Mon, Aug 12, 2013 at 3:50 PM, John Linzy <jslinzy@gmail.com> 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 :-)
>
> 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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>      From: Joey Beutel <mejobo@comcast.net>
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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:
>
>          > 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.
>          >
>          > 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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