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Xiahou Dun posted:Uh never mind. Is it fallen off the forum or am I blind/an idiot?
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O so it did just fall off the forums. Thanks!
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Jan 27, 2019 04:11
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Did find an example of the somewhat 'rougher' version: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RN9dx7qHZCk&t=270s
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Jan 27, 2019 09:38
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It's Valentine's Day, which means its time for the US Junior Olympic Championships! Beyond the normal stress of a national championship for pointed events, US Fencing is officially adopting the new non-combativity guidelines as passed by the FIE congress with the start of the event. This is a pain in the butt, because they've literally added 15 mins to the normal pre-NAC ref meeting just to cover it. I do feel like updating the rules for the championship event should've been avoid (as was done with the 3-meter rule), but this is a good event to run as a test bed/demo for the new rule. The FIE has published an FAQ (pdf) with guidelines on application. The most surprising thing in there is Q7. Fencers are no longer allowed to "wave off" the remaining time of a period to advance to the break or priority. If they attempt to do so, it is to be penalized with "delay of bout" on both fencers (a Group 1 penalty). I'm not a fan of this interpretation, but it is what it is. I'm still onboard with this for some of the big changes it makes, notably removing the end of period penalty, and I think it brings the rule more in line with what other combat sports have implemented. I'll probably have a better feel for it once my stint in Denver is over with. Quick Edit: I forgot to post Q10, my fav from the FAQ: FIE posted:Q10.In the text for team events in English, c) mentions “fencers” though the lines before and after mention “teams”. The French and Spanish rules mention “teams”. Is it a typing mistake? BirdOfPlay fucked around with this message at 16:57 on Feb 14, 2019 |
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Feb 14, 2019 16:55
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I just wanted to mention that I have started going to a weekly fencing program and it's really great! There is a lot of focus involved so that's what I really enjoy about it.
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Feb 14, 2019 23:03
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^^That's probably what I enjoy the most of about the stage I'm at now. Having gone through the technical/physical phase, it's now mostly about focus and concentration.
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Feb 14, 2019 23:53
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Yeah, the mindgames are so much of what makes the game fun. Unlearning years of bad habits where I rush in before seeing if there's a parry coming for my riposte is frustrating as all hell, but every so often it goes just right and the feeling is amazing.
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Feb 18, 2019 11:41
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French fencing body recognizes lightsaber dueling as a sport. The only true difference is this rule:quote:Blows only count if the fighters first point the tip of their saber behind them. That rule prevents the viper-like, tip-first quick forward strikes seen in fencing. Instead, the rule encourages swishier blows that are easier for audiences to see and enjoy, and which are more evocative of the duels in Star Wars. Without this, there's no reason to ever spin your lightsaber during the duel.
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Feb 19, 2019 02:14
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Seems like a good rule if you're going for style over substance.
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Feb 19, 2019 08:38
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Couldn't you just do Kendo then?
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Feb 19, 2019 15:29
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Are the fencers required to do the SWOOSH-SHWOOsh noises themselves? Because they should be.
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Feb 21, 2019 18:29
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Nektu posted:Are the fencers required to do the SWOOSH-SHWOOsh noises themselves? vvvvomp vvvvoOOOOOoomp vvvvRRRRREEEOOOMP
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Feb 21, 2019 20:11
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I'm sure I'm being terrible and elitist but honestly this sounds super cringey. But I always thought that fighting with a weightless blade that vaporises everything instantly would basically be epee, because why would you ever do anything other than be super cagey and go for maximum range touches to your opponent's wrist?
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Feb 23, 2019 11:07
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I bet you'd love some Errol Flynn movies. Edit: Mark Hamill explains why they didn't do that. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RIefj6dOhnM&t=213s Siivola fucked around with this message at 11:22 on Feb 23, 2019 |
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Feb 23, 2019 11:18
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Oh yeah, of course they needed to pick a fighting style that looks good for the camera. That take of the scene where Hamill's beating down Vader and gets so carried away he accidentally flings his stick away mid-swing is priceless  Hah, he does in fact win the fight by cutting Vader's hand off. Totally forgot about that!
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Feb 23, 2019 13:15
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Crazy Achmed posted:I'm sure I'm being terrible and elitist but honestly this sounds super cringey. But I always thought that fighting with a weightless blade that vaporises everything instantly would basically be epee, because why would you ever do anything other than be super cagey and go for maximum range touches to your opponent's wrist? Remember that they weren't going for Age of Sail swashbuckling, they were cribbing from Kurosawa films.
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Feb 23, 2019 18:40
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Its really funny how the initial decision to go with a slower, more paced form made way more sense and had a better logical consistency than the later ridiculousness. The idea that these things are so powerful you need to be a jedi to even safely use them at all, and still needed to treat them with respect and caution makes way more sense then the flailing about later. 
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Feb 23, 2019 18:53
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Well, George saw some wushu competition forms and there was no stopping him...
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Feb 24, 2019 01:28
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Those jedi sure knew how to throw a dance party. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NuUGrtmjQfY
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Feb 24, 2019 03:35
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Crazy Achmed posted:I'm sure I'm being terrible and elitist but honestly this sounds super cringey. But I always thought that fighting with a weightless blade that vaporises everything instantly would basically be epee, because why would you ever do anything other than be super cagey and go for maximum range touches to your opponent's wrist? The blades aren't weightless because according to the Star Wars Encyclopedia I read in first grade the blade is formed by a magnetic field holding a mass of plasma in place, and the magnetic field generates a lot of gyroscopic force which is why the blades are so difficult to use properly. The blaster bolts are made of the same kind of plasma mass held in place by a magnetic field which is why they move slower than the speed of light, and why lightsabers can deflect blaster bolts because the fields collide. 
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Feb 25, 2019 16:24
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bco73_QYfJc Nice little collection of 'jodan' points. (upper guard). I pretty much exclusively fight from that stance.
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Mar 14, 2019 11:31
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ImplicitAssembler posted:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bco73_QYfJc I mean, yea, poo poo happens especially when you start to get tired, but its not the first time that I woundered about that. Edit: Some more extreme examples from a video earlier in this thread: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YepWym8pMWc&t=36s - although I guess stuff like this happens because wrestling is not allowed and the first one who would try to increase the distance would get hit anyways. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YepWym8pMWc&t=203s - hmm, what? Nektu fucked around with this message at 21:53 on Mar 14, 2019 |
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Mar 14, 2019 21:38
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I am not a kendoka, but it looks a lot to me like that's an attempt to get their opponents to misjudge their intentions and timing.
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Mar 15, 2019 03:47
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It's an attempt to get a reaction of the opponent. You are constantly probing for an opening. Attacking without a clear opportunity is often a good opportunity to counter.
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Mar 15, 2019 04:25
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Meanwhile, in Japan: https://www.facebook.com/masashi.yokoyama.718/videos/1776047735979141/
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Mar 20, 2019 06:32
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this thread trains for a day like this: http://www.fox5atlanta.com/news/sheriff-mom-attacked-boyfriend-with-sword-after-finding-him-molesting-daughter
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Mar 22, 2019 00:04
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ImplicitAssembler posted:Meanwhile, in Japan: Its like the ACL/BoTN folks... only Japanese...
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Mar 22, 2019 17:59
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EvilMerlin posted:Its like the ACL/BoTN folks... only Japanese... Except several of those dudes aren't even wearing face protection.
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Mar 22, 2019 18:43
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The majority of those dudes aren't wearing face protection.  Also, what the hell is going on with the armor? It's almost universally terribly fitted where it is built correctly at all.
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Mar 23, 2019 04:56
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Uh they have guns. Uh. Also they’re not matchlocks??? So I don’t get how it works and it’s inaccurate.
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Mar 23, 2019 05:29
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Yeah, that puzzled me too, because the stuff on their blog talks about recreating Warring States period fighting. IIRC that would have been at best matchlocks based off of Portuguese designs...
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Mar 23, 2019 11:37
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I just got around to watching the semis-finals of the last couple of GPs, there's some really entertaining fights in there that I'd recommend to everyone. Foil: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B_lyMKeERrQ - great commentary but the volume levels are super low Epee: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ULsFvP83XB4 France has fielded this insanely lanky guy in its foil team, the "what the gently caress just happened" reaction of his opponents after he tags them with a simple extension is awesome. Then he starts loving with them and closing to infighting distance out of nowhere. I haven't watched all the epee yet but the first match is Heinzer up to his usual tricks versus an Italian who just ain't having any of that bullshit. I need to show this video to all the newbies in my club who get panicked when someone starts doing unorthodox poo poo.
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Mar 30, 2019 08:35
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I'm on a kendo 'vacation' in Japan and had the opportunity to take part in the morning practice for the Kyoto Taikai. https://i.imgur.com/I8U3aeg.mp4 Some 80+ 8-dan teachers with about a gazillion 'regular' people lining up.
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May 8, 2019 14:57
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Anyone got advice for someone that wants to focus on Migration Period/Viking age things? Spears, one handed swords and axes used with shields, maybe long knives, that sort of thing? Edit: best analogs I've found to work off of so far are messer manuals for swords, and theres a decent Meyer (IIRC, on phone so I can't check) for spears and staves. MohawkSatan fucked around with this message at 04:01 on May 9, 2019 |
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May 9, 2019 03:57
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Check out ARMA's collection. The closest thing I know of for actual fighting manuals period-wise would be I.33, but that's just sword and buckler, not really as comparable. For sword and shield, I'd look to reenactors. Hurstwic has some stuff here. Maybe also look at the Cateran Society's stuff on broadsword and targe, most of which seem to be based on Thomas Paine's “Use of the Highland Broadsword”. A viking era sword is going to be balanced differently, and the shield will be larger, but the principals will be more likely to compare than the smaller bucklers used in most rapier systems or I.33. That's a shot in the dark, though. I learned shieldwork in the SCA, which means I have bad habits based on the gear and rules of the game as compared to what would serve in a real fight.
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Liquid Communism posted:Maybe also look at the Cateran Society's stuff on broadsword and targe, most of which seem to be based on Thomas Paine's “Use of the Highland Broadsword”. A viking era sword is going to be balanced differently, and the shield will be larger, but the principals will be more likely to compare than the smaller bucklers used in most rapier systems or I.33. That's a shot in the dark, though. I learned shieldwork in the SCA, which means I have bad habits based on the gear and rules of the game as compared to what would serve in a real fight. Roland Warzecha has a bunch of good stuff about using large round shields and Viking swords https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oQo7FjxjHSg and it looks pretty different in practice than the arming sword and buckler of I.33 or the later sidesword and buckler fighting.
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ImplicitAssembler posted:I'm on a kendo 'vacation' in Japan and had the opportunity to take part in the morning practice for the Kyoto Taikai. That looks like a hell of a lot of fun! I think one of my friends was there but given how many people are there it's probably not likely you ran into him. I've just snapped a couple of very elderly foil blades and am having to re-learn point control on much stiffer ones... this'll teach me for buying stuff that I don't normally use. They're STM rainbows and are otherwise very nice, though. Anyway, sorry I haven't posted in a while but here is an incredibly cursed image just to remind us all which forums we are posting on
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I went to a club and fenced for the first time in a year or so on Thursday. I still have cramps in my thighs, butt, and groin. Also, I can't wait for Summer Nats in 3 weeks. 10 days, ~12,000 registrations. Oh, and the July Challenge events kick off Olympic selection (I think). Luckily, I'll be in Columbus, OH, so I'm sure to have fun. BirdOfPlay fucked around with this message at 19:59 on Jun 8, 2019 |
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Jun 8, 2019 19:54
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Oh god drat it, the wire popped out of one of my new blades after like 5 uses. And not just the wire, the core of the wire broke its way out of the insulation AND the glue. Had to pull half the wire out, clean the blade, then painstakingly glue it back in... we'll see how long that keeps it alive for. Really nice blade otherwise though.
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How long does a blade normally last?. On my Japan trip, I was given a shinai I really liked and ended up ordered a box of 10. Should be enough for the next 2 years.
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