[Inquisitor]

I figure its likely someone here does, given the demographics.

I just started about a month ago, I am enjoying it despite the fact it is excercise and a sport.

Does anyone else here fence foil, epee or saber?

[Mobius]

I fence. Because I have to help my father on it.

[Turambar]

i used to, foil.

didnt like the people around the club so i quit.

[Inquisitor]

Do you know anyone who fences and also shoots handguns? I think we'll start doing electric in the fall, and that implies I should get a pistol grip. I am just worried about what that will do to my pistol shooting muscle memory.

[phreak]

If by fence, you mean "buy or sell stolen goods", then yes.  Although i think the sport would be interesting, don't hear about it much in the States though.

[Unknown Target]

Inquisitor, what do you mean by "start doing electric"? And when I get to college they have a fencing club there, so I've been thinking of joining that

[Mobius]

Do you know anyone who fences and also shoots handguns?

Me, I suppose.

[Polpolion]

My older sister was on the Fencing team at the University of Michigan, but they don't have a team where she is now for grad school. She still has a saber, though. With a PVC pipe sheath.

[Inquisitor]

Electric blades, its how they score real bouts.

Mobius: Do the pistol grips interfere with your handgun shooting? Muscle memory is a big deal for me, and learning one way to hold something seems like it gets in the way of holding similar things.

And changing my pistol habits could prove fatal

[Nuke]

i installed a fence a couple years ago, it was an overrated experience

[Mathwiz6]

I do. I'm kind of surprised our area has a fencing club, considering how small it is, but we do. I've come out on top in a few competitions, but our club is so small we have basically 2 epees, and a single saber. We have a set of (low cost) electrical equipment, about 4 electrical jackets... you get the idea. The competitions were in a considerably larger city, of course.

[Turambar]

i preferred when, after the meeting, we would go around campus and have impromptu fewer-rules fencing matches, with obstacles, stairs, small walls, hills and such.

then some retard called it in as a knife fight and we weren't allowed to do it anymore.

[brozozo]

I took some lessons about three years ago with the intention of joining a club, but I already had too much going on in my life. I remember most of the things I learned, and I plan on joining the fencing club when I return to university life later this month.

[NGTM-1R]

Do you know anyone who fences and also shoots handguns? I think we'll start doing electric in the fall, and that implies I should get a pistol grip. I am just worried about what that will do to my pistol shooting muscle memory.

I've done both, but not at the same point in my life. Haven't fenced properly in years, don't even have a proper blade for it anymore. (Civil War cavalry sabre is not a fencing weapon, it would snap one in half.) I never had formal training; but being the son of a Naval Academy fencing champion it was difficult not to pick something up.

[Mika]

That depends on what is meant by "fencing". But let's say I handle sabres and two sided swords (what's your term for it?) time by time. But I prefer long stick or short sticks.

Mika

[akenbosch]

you're a swoardsman then  :p

[Inquisitor]

I mean specfically Foil and Epee, like in the Olympics.

http://www.fencing.net

Only been doing it for about a month. I needed to do something to not die of being old and fat, and a gym membership sounded so mundane.

[colecampbell666]

My friend Abbey Troup went to the Canada games. I am pretty sure that it was foil (A rapier).

[Turey]

i installed a fence a couple years ago, it was an overrated experience

I actually just spent 2 weeks tearing down old barbed-wire fence and putting up new barbed-wire fence. I'm very good at fencing, seeing as I put up several miles of fence. I got $460 and several large cuts.

[colecampbell666]

Are you being sarcastic or do actually not know that we're talking about sword fighting?