Foil is point only.
Sabre is the side of the blade and the point, the lunge is more of a
flick. All the terms are in French.
http://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=sabre+fencing&search_type=&aq=f
Protection is advisable even with the blunt sticks fencers used. I
never used to wear a box until someone hit me down there and I pissed
blood for a while.
My highest point of achievement was the second round of the Leicester
Open. Glory days!
I was fast, very very fast and I could sometimes beat more able
fencers by speed alone. But hey, that was then.
Roger
On Sun, Aug 24, 2008 at 9:37 PM, Judy Prince
<[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> Is either of those used in the sport (not the illegal activity) known as
> fencing? I've watched friends fence and been mighty impressed. Sabre
> sounds awesome, please narrate a session of it, so I can figure out how it's
> gone about. What really intrigues me is tilting; one would have to be an
> accomplished rider as well as sword-handler. Ah, the good ole days! <g>
>
> 2008/8/24 Roger Day <[log in to unmask]>
>
>> I used to be a fairly good swordsman myself - foil and sabre were my
>> weapons of choice.
>>
>> Roger
>>
>> On Sun, Aug 24, 2008 at 10:52 AM, Judy Prince
>> <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>> > "Sprezzatura"----variously defined as "nonchalance", "the finest art that
>> > hides its art", "studied casualness", "an aristocratic indifference
>> towards
>> > one's own works", "the appearance of careless gaiety", "skill in seeming
>> > effortlessness in horsemanship, sword display, singing, dancing,
>> speaking,
>> > and writing so as to catch the eye of those higher in the hierarchy, and
>> > especially that of the prince"----gives us Baldassari Castiglione's
>> keyword
>> > for the ultimate courtier of the Renaissance.
>> > Philip Sidney, often said to be The Courtier in Elizabeth's England,
>> studied
>> > to be such. He wrote his poems, emphasising that they were trifles, many
>> > written slapdash as he rode his horse near Wilton House, on his sister
>> Mary,
>> > Countess of Pembroke's estate (her husband, Henry Herbert, Earl of
>> > Pembroke). Sidney was superiorly skilled in riding, swordplay and
>> military
>> > campaigns as well as in writing poetry and argumentation. He was an
>> > influential and prototypic blend of sportsman and artist.
>> > Have sport and art ever been far separate from governing, from politics,
>> > from jockeying that impossible perfection of skills requisite to "play on
>> > The Big Team" or, similarly, to make way for a new Big Team?
>> >
>> > Athletes and poets may train while wisely sequestered, but their aim is
>> to
>> > connect to others, to _show_ their skill and power, and to gain from the
>> > show material as well as immaterial rewards. Much can be said about the
>> > intrinsic joy of athletic and poetic acts---and it is real---but we can't
>> > set aside the existence of the extrinsic goals of the performers.
>> >
>> > Judy
>> >
>>
>>
>>
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