En garde, David!                                                                        
      Actually, I did a little fencing ( french foil ) many years ago at college, but it has been a long time. The field has certainly expanded since then, what with groups like ARMA doing research.                
      I have a Talwar and a M1917 Naval Cutlass, both from Cold Steel,
and I like them a great deal, but I have not had time to really work out with them.                                                                           
      A while back, there was a group at the Higgens Armoury Museum in Worcester, Mass. ( ARMA, I think ) teaching the two handed longsword. Worcester is not too far for me, but again, my work schedule is difficult.                                                               
      Hey,Slingers! Anybody else into swords??                  .......Dan

I went to this place

http://swordforge.org/events/2006cb/overview.php

saturday.

Did some long sword fenceing (its interesting each defence is an attack and each attack is a defence)

That irish stick fighting was very cool too (they have you move in odd ways to do that. odd but they work)

the tomahawk and longknife with super fun, the enstructor even helped me out with I33 alittle. real nice guys i must of tryed the same thing 40 times and no one got flusterd. 

hold still you silly french frog while i run you through with this large hair pin!

Haa!

I've always been a great fan of fencing.  I think I could be a great champion as I already have much experience at the sport's distant cousin,  fence sitting.


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Me too.
(Not the best but unstopable when I have my day.)

Willeke

Actually,  fence sitting....is the timeless art of using any of life's distractions at hand to avoid having to choose which side of the fence one must invariably land on when the balance act is over.


Verbal dueling?  I wouldn't know....?








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     Willeke,                                                                              
         Are you admitting, then, that you have a "sharp tongue?"   
         I think I would rather face a steel blade.                        
         Actually, I work in a hospital laboratory; 90% of my co-workers are women. Many times I have told them how lucky they are to have someone like me as a co-worker, with my calm demeanor and pleasant disposition. I then chide them for taking advantage of my
simple nature. Everytime I tell them this, they laugh as if I were telling a joke. ???                                                                     
         Oh, well.......the way they treat me is NOTHING compared to the way they treat each other!                                                         
                                                                                .......Dan