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RE: (TFT) Polyhedral Weapon Heresy



Heh.  This clip is a much better saber duel:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=83Fb0Y6uUSw


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From: tft-admin@brainiac.com [mailto:tft-admin@brainiac.com] On Behalf Of
Jay Carlisle
Sent: Wednesday, August 14, 2013 5:38 PM
To: tft@brainiac.com
Subject: Re: (TFT) Polyhedral Weapon Heresy

>> 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>
>      To: tft@brainiac.com
>      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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> [mailto:tft-admin@brainiac.com] On Behalf Of raito@raito.com
>          > Sent: Monday, August 12, 2013 3:24 PM
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>          > Subject: RE: (TFT) Polyhedral Weapon Heresy
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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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