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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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Jay Carlisle
Sent: Wednesday, August 14, 2013 5:38 PM
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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
> :-)
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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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> ------ Original Message ------
> Received: 03:12 PM PDT, 08/12/2013
> 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
> >
> >> 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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