February282013
modernfencing: [ID: an epee fencer celebrating a touch, by fist- and knee-pumping.] Tatiana Logunova!

modernfencing:

[ID: an epee fencer celebrating a touch, by fist- and knee-pumping.]

Tatiana Logunova!

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January122013
Day 7: From left, Italy’s Diego Occhiuzzi, Luigi Tarantino, Luigi Samele and Aldo Montano celebrate their victory after their men’s sabre team bronze medal fencing competition against Russia. I saw this event while in London! Great fencing, but the Italian team were such crybabies. I think it was in the match before the bronze one, they contested 3/4 of calls.But mostly I love how I can say I was there!

Day 7: From left, Italy’s Diego Occhiuzzi, Luigi Tarantino, Luigi Samele and Aldo Montano celebrate their victory after their men’s sabre team bronze medal fencing competition against Russia.

I saw this event while in London! Great fencing, but the Italian team were such crybabies. I think it was in the match before the bronze one, they contested 3/4 of calls.

But mostly I love how I can say I was there!

(via modernfencing)

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December282012
modernfencing: [ID: a sabre fencer on strip, pelvic-thrusting to celebrate a touch.] Amira Ben Chaabane!

modernfencing:

[ID: a sabre fencer on strip, pelvic-thrusting to celebrate a touch.]

Amira Ben Chaabane!

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December32012

Assessing the 2013-2013 Rule Changes

thefencingcoach:

Today the USFA released an 11 page rules digest on changes to effect competition in the 2012-2013 season. I shuffled through all 40 new approved rules and dumbed them down to “What you need to know,” “Other key takeaways,” and the “Why the hell didn’t the USFA address this rule” category. Read on.

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November162012

Cheesy language jokes, round two

  • Me: So, Julius Caesar walks into a bar and asks the bartender for a martinus.
  • Sis: Oh no..
  • Me: The bartender looks at him and goes,"Oh! You mean a martini."
  • Me: "No," replied Caesar. "I only want one."
  • Sis: ... What?
  • Me: Noun declensions.
  • #and then the bartender stabs him 23 times for being difficult
  • At fencing practice, we do wall sits as part of our workout, and the tradition is to tell jokes while we are sitting to make the exercise less excruciating. This is one of the only jokes I ever remember, and I can never tell it because nobody wants to hear about noun declensions while their thighs are on fire.
  • (I've also heard it told with the punchline "If I wanted a double, I would have asked for one," but there is no dual in Latin. I wonder how many other languages Caesar knew...)

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October92012
malformalady: A rapier, manufactured in the mid-19th century by the technology of the old masters as a gift to one high-ranking person. Such exceptionally flexible rapiers were made in Toledo in the beginning of 17th century. They were sold in gun shops and coiled in a circle to show its flexible properties. oh god want

malformalady:

A rapier, manufactured in the mid-19th century by the technology of the old masters as a gift to one high-ranking person. Such exceptionally flexible rapiers were made in Toledo in the beginning of 17th century. They were sold in gun shops and coiled in a circle to show its flexible properties.

oh god want

(via isthisabovveredface)

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September112012

fencing, man. fencing.: The Complete Fencing Dictionary

radioactive-roulette:

ABSTAIN French for “so sorry, I wasn’t paying attention”
ADVANCE Forward motion made by male fencers toward female fencers, usually resulting in a slap across the face.
ATTACK IN PREPARATION When you sneak up and hit your opponant while they’re still putting on…

ehehehehehe

(Source: mindspring.com)

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September92012

modernfencing:

[ID: five photos from a magazine shoot of an epee fencer in her uniform.]

donnelldaily:

Olympic silver medalist, and current Wharton MBA candidate, Erinn Smart for Wharton Magazine’s summer 2012 issue.

Editor: Matthew Brodsky / Design: Emily Aldrich

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June192012
modernfencing: [ID: two foilists in a bout. The fencer on the right is lunging, but her opponent has ducked down and is making a touch.] Anja Schache (left) against Lee Kiefer!

modernfencing:

[ID: two foilists in a bout. The fencer on the right is lunging, but her opponent has ducked down and is making a touch.]

Anja Schache (left) against Lee Kiefer!

fencing 

June82012

Your Olympic Fencing Viewing Schedule

modernfencing:

sillyswordfights:

Assuming you can find a network that will actually show it…

Meanwhile you can brush up on your Olympic Fencing here.

I am so excited for the Olympics. I just need to figure out how to watch an unpopular sport with no TV, haha.

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