Thread:Legofrodo12/@comment-26929881-20150215023912/@comment-26929881-20150215191534

Legofrodo12 wrote: LegoSuperBowser wrote: The junior olympics was and is in Richmond Virginia yesterday and today. My friend who's a fencer dragged me along. It wasn't too bad. I got to see the men's foilist final. (I got to see 4 hours of fencing but just one final) Although I have to say, if I ever go into fencing, I want to use the sabar. Those guys are insane. I want to have that much freedom in movement and all. The rest is too boring. Oh, okay, no, I wasn't there. xD Virginia is a bit of a hike from Missouri... Wish I had been though, that would have been awesome!

Haha, yeah, I understand that. xD That's what most people seem to think is the coolest... It's the most barbaric of the three though. Everyone madly whacking each other... And painful too. If you've ever been slapped with a thin piece of rather whip-like metal, you'd know what I was talking about. Although I will say that at the level you saw, there probably wasn't much flailingly mucking about, as is common for beginniers. Foil is the most elegant, obviously, though the right-of-way rules are confusing. I think that sabre's right-of-way is more confusing that  foil though. As for epee, that particular weapon is the most realistic, and the simplest as far as rules go, though certainly not the easiest. No right of way, and no off-target area.... *notices your eyes glazing*  Okay, I'm done babbling. xD Your local fencing group wasn't even trying to qiualfy for the olympics? I thought must fencing places would.

Barbaric is a good term to use for it, but only for those of you who've played and know a good bit about epee and foil. For the common spectator, while it looked wild compared to the other two, it wasn't as bad as you guys say it is. It's insane, and there isn't any stratgy like there is in the other two, foil most notable. But it's the reaction time of like .1 seconds, and not even thinking of what you need to do but just to do something, that makes it so impressive. If you think that's crazy, check out a thing called "HEMA". I want to be in HEMA so bad. It looks so insanly fun. I like epee, but the match just goes by too fast at times.