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Originally Posted by powderjunkie
With what I've seen about fencing the last 24 hours, fencing seems like the most ####ed up sport I've ever seen. The attire looks like it belongs at an orgy. A weird orgy. And they are clipped to a wire behind them for some reason? And it seems like the competitors complain after every single point. Or complain huge when they lose like the men's #1 guy.
Harvey seems like a good one, though.
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Kevlar jackets and pants because otherwise when you get stabbed with even a blunted sword it hurts. The wires are how the scoring works - basically when (in foil anyhow, which is what Harvey competes in) you hit someone with your foil it depresses a button and completes a circuit between the blade, the wire (which plugs into your foil), your opponent's silver vest, your opponent's wire, and the scoring box, causing the light to come on. If the button is depressed and you don't hit your opponent's vest, the full circuit isn't completed and a white light comes on instead.
I hate the poor sportsmanship like you mentioned in any sport.
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Originally Posted by calgarygeologist
My kids tried it one time. It definitely has very little appeal and the folks that were running the session seemed like real pricks and did a very poor job of selling it as a fun activity. It seems like a weirdly elitist activity.
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That's too bad, fencing can be a lot of fun, sounds like you got a bad session or a coach having a bad day. I can certainly see the elitist perception, partly from the history of the sport and partly because some clubs take it very seriously and focus on competitive fencing.