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I tried fencing against an SF Olympian and lived to tell the tale
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| 9 June 2021
| Dan Gentile
Posted on 06/10/2021 1:34:14 PM PDT by DUMBGRUNT
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Zorro gets the young CZJ!
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posted on
06/10/2021 1:34:14 PM PDT
by
DUMBGRUNT
To: DUMBGRUNT
I did a HUGE amount of fencing in my youth...(Mostly barbed wire)
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posted on
06/10/2021 1:37:09 PM PDT
by
JBW1949
(I'm really PC.....Patriotically Correct)
To: DUMBGRUNT
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posted on
06/10/2021 1:38:13 PM PDT
by
outofsalt
(If history teaches us anything, it's that history rarely teaches anything.)
To: DUMBGRUNT
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posted on
06/10/2021 1:39:15 PM PDT
by
BenLurkin
(The above is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion, or satire. Or both.)
To: JBW1949
I had to give up fencing when I fenced myself in a circle and couldn’t get out without help. That’s embarrassing.
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posted on
06/10/2021 1:40:26 PM PDT
by
BipolarBob
(I wish I was 14 again so I could ruin my life in a completely different way. I've got ideas.)
To: outofsalt
“I’m not left-handed, either.”
To: BenLurkin
That photo is just plain wrong!
This one is better.
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posted on
06/10/2021 1:50:02 PM PDT
by
DUMBGRUNT
(("The enemy has overrun us. We are blowing up everything. Vive la France!"Dien Bien Phu last message)
To: DUMBGRUNT
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posted on
06/10/2021 1:55:55 PM PDT
by
Kartographer
("We mutually pledge to each other our lives our fortunes and our sacred honor." )
To: DUMBGRUNT
This scene from "The Deluge" (Polish, 1974) is called by many the most realistic sword fight in film.
https://youtu.be/wR4y9O90C8g
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posted on
06/10/2021 2:06:22 PM PDT
by
dainbramaged
( Your friends might get me in a rush, but not before I make your head into a canoe.)
To: dainbramaged
Good stuff. Had not seen that movie. Thanks for posting the link.
To: BenLurkin
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posted on
06/10/2021 3:50:33 PM PDT
by
skepsel
To: DUMBGRUNT
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posted on
06/10/2021 3:58:02 PM PDT
by
Magnum44
(...against all enemies, foreign and domestic...)
To: DUMBGRUNT
It goes for most combat sports that the mental is important. Getting in a MmA bout confronts one with many options , strategies and issues of situational awareness while being nearly blind on the ground at times.
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posted on
06/10/2021 4:00:38 PM PDT
by
JudgemAll
(Democrats Fed. job-security in hates:hypocrites must be gay like us or be tested/crucifie)
To: DUMBGRUNT
Foil:Get closer to them than they are to you.
Epee: Just stick your sword out and they run into it with their arm.
Saber: You just run at each other and yell.
Reffing in French is gay.
This was the sum total of the fencing knowledge gained from two state champions in the family. I don’t think they are getting hired on as commentators for the Olympics.
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posted on
06/10/2021 4:22:00 PM PDT
by
cdcdawg
(It's all so tiresome.)
To: DUMBGRUNT
Split rail? Picket? Chain link? Barbed wire?
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posted on
06/10/2021 5:17:44 PM PDT
by
Don W
(When blacks riot, neighbourhoods and cities burn. When whites riot, nations and continents burn.)
To: dainbramaged
—” scene from “The Deluge”
Wow! That was intense and without seeing any development of the characters!
That is a major advance from my previous study of sword fighting with Zorro and the Three Musketeers.
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posted on
06/10/2021 5:21:49 PM PDT
by
DUMBGRUNT
(("The enemy has overrun us. We are blowing up everything. Vive la France!"Dien Bien Phu last message)
To: cdcdawg
—” two state champions in the family.”
Like many other topics, things I know zero about.
Usually, I can recall someone I knew that had experience in many unusual athletic endeavors.
Knife throwing! Yes.
I worked for years with an archer/slingshot guy and he was good at it.
The closest I can recall was a friend that had been stabbed in a fight.
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posted on
06/10/2021 5:34:42 PM PDT
by
DUMBGRUNT
(("The enemy has overrun us. We are blowing up everything. Vive la France!"Dien Bien Phu last message)
To: dainbramaged
Ridley Scott’s The Duellists is both good and beautiful.
To: DUMBGRUNT
Aw, just swing the saber back and forth really fast like Danny Kaye did against Basil Rathbone in The Court Jester.
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posted on
06/10/2021 5:36:09 PM PDT
by
decal
(I'm not rude, I don't suffer fools is all.)
To: Don W
—”Split rail? Picket? Chain link? Barbed wire?”
Concertina wire.
With trip flares.
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posted on
06/10/2021 5:38:23 PM PDT
by
DUMBGRUNT
(("The enemy has overrun us. We are blowing up everything. Vive la France!"Dien Bien Phu last message)
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