Scooby Snacks 23

I'm looking for a new hobby and was thinking about taking up fencing and wondered if anyone here had done it, or indeed still do it?

It's energetic, good for reactions, social etc, but is it expensive to get into?

phil_wrx

iTrader: (2)

plastic sword, baking tray for ur front and a mesh strainer for ur head...... cant be too expensive


does look energetic though, good luck a maybe see u in the olympics?

Leslie

Hope its not too painful when you get the obligatory scar on your cheek!

Les

GC8

Its surprisingly cheap and youll be able to use club kit for free until you decide its for you / buy your own.

I keep meaning to re-start: I havent been your about five years.

vindaloo

Or more famously the upper lip, necessitating a Col Blimp moustache

Leslie

It has to be a blonde one though!

Les

GC8

I think that people are confusing sabres with the more common epee and foil. In the majority of the fencing that youll have seen, the participant will be using a foil: sabres are more of a niche. Theyre probably popular with ze Germans, though.....

Torquemada

Did fencing with foils and such when I was at school, was a good laugh unless the plastic tips came off the end of them and you got one in the leg, lol bloooooooood!

Go for it mate, it's muchos fun

GC8

Foils are made with a broadened rounded tip now. You must have been at school in the nineteenth century!

Torquemada

Well, they must have got ours from that time indeed, I definitely remember pointy evil ends if the plastic nubbins came off
Was probably one of those school stories but I'm sure someone got one in the neck, many many a year before.
Obviously it's much safer now!