Sabre Fencing - Tumblr Posts
I saw my friends neck get cut open and my reaction was
Huh
That’s what that looks like
That’s a lot of blood
At least I’ll be able to describe it in my writing now
…….yep
literally everything always feels like a performance to me. i’ll be uncontrollably sobbing and will suddenly be like wow i would’ve won an oscar for this
Queer culture is knowing you need to take a gym course for school and low-key just straight up considering Fenching cause Gay/Queer jokes and Wii Sports Fencing is legit the closest you've ever gotten to being interested in "real sports".
Psst.. Sorry to bother you, but I saw your tags on that one queer culture post from awhile ago, and like I'm currently trying to learn about/am researching fencing!! I haven't been able to find much sadly, and I know like nothing about sabre, so I was wondering if you'd be fine with telling me about what it's like?? This has low-key become really interesting to me lately, and I'd love to hear stories from an actual fencer if your fine w/ that!! /gen /pos
ABSOLUTELY!!!! I could talk about fencing for HOURS!!! Not sure exactly what info you’re looking for but Im so glad you’re interested!
I’ve been fencing for about 3 years and have been fencing competitively for about 2 years. I started after my dad told me to pick a sport and I said either horseback riding, archery, or sword fighting, so he found a fencing club near us. This is just my opinions and experiences.
Ok so first things first: 3 types of fencing
1. Épée (which I began with, learning the sport, the simplest)
2. Foil (which I know barely anything about tbh)
3. Sabre (my pride and joy, my sport, my love, easily the best kind fight me)
Sabre can use both the edge of the blade and the tip (though mostly edge) anywhere from the waist up.
Fencing positions (advances, retreats, lunges, etc.) can feel really weird or awkward at first, but now I will stand almost in engarde position without realizing it.
Fencing is a bit more of an individual sport than most, but it still requires at least two people to work and you don’t want to just keep fencing the same person (I actually have a whole thing about how different benders from A:TLA work with different fencing styles and personalities if you’d like to see that).
Some of my experiences: there’s not too many girls until you get to the upper classes. Fencing is kind of a small world (at least two fencers from my fencing club are at the Olympics this week and our coach casually pulled out a Sabre from the 2016 rio Olympics at one point which was kind of insane). Manners are key. If you do not have proper manners and respect, you will be dismissed. One of the best fencers in my class was kicked out after they used the n-word.
Fencing, for all it’s armor and safety precautions, CAN still be dangerous. They’re still swords. There are accidents. Most of the time this means a bruise or cut, but there was one time when a blade broke mid-lunge as it went under a mask and cut someone’s throat. It was an accident and both the person hurt and the person whose blade broke were a bit traumatized by it. Impressively, the girl who was hurt is starting to fence again.
I’ve found that whenever I’m feeling really bad depression-wise, fencing can pull me out of it.
For me, fencing is about perseverance and dedication. It’s hard, but fun, and I have improved so much over the years. I love it.
We start with épée at our club and specialize in sabre. I mean épée is a dueling sport vs a military sport so it has less rules I guess??
As for skill levels, we have beginner (épée), pre-competitive sabre, competitive 1 (which I skipped cause I was taller and older than like everyone in that class), cadet competitive, and high performance, all pre-collegiate. Idk if I’m gonna make it to high performance but I hope so. In competitions, there’s U (unranked), E, D, C, B, and A ranks, based on how many points you get (I think? That’s how they determine who gets to go to the Nationals and stuff. I’m still unranked) and how many competitions you go to.
I don’t have the avatar stuff with me right now but I will make a post about it and tag you in it. Remind me to do that.
Psst.. Sorry to bother you, but I saw your tags on that one queer culture post from awhile ago, and like I'm currently trying to learn about/am researching fencing!! I haven't been able to find much sadly, and I know like nothing about sabre, so I was wondering if you'd be fine with telling me about what it's like?? This has low-key become really interesting to me lately, and I'd love to hear stories from an actual fencer if your fine w/ that!! /gen /pos
ABSOLUTELY!!!! I could talk about fencing for HOURS!!! Not sure exactly what info you’re looking for but Im so glad you’re interested!
I’ve been fencing for about 3 years and have been fencing competitively for about 2 years. I started after my dad told me to pick a sport and I said either horseback riding, archery, or sword fighting, so he found a fencing club near us. This is just my opinions and experiences.
Ok so first things first: 3 types of fencing
1. Épée (which I began with, learning the sport, the simplest)
2. Foil (which I know barely anything about tbh)
3. Sabre (my pride and joy, my sport, my love, easily the best kind fight me)
Sabre can use both the edge of the blade and the tip (though mostly edge) anywhere from the waist up.
Fencing positions (advances, retreats, lunges, etc.) can feel really weird or awkward at first, but now I will stand almost in engarde position without realizing it.
Fencing is a bit more of an individual sport than most, but it still requires at least two people to work and you don’t want to just keep fencing the same person (I actually have a whole thing about how different benders from A:TLA work with different fencing styles and personalities if you’d like to see that).
Some of my experiences: there’s not too many girls until you get to the upper classes. Fencing is kind of a small world (at least two fencers from my fencing club are at the Olympics this week and our coach casually pulled out a Sabre from the 2016 rio Olympics at one point which was kind of insane). Manners are key. If you do not have proper manners and respect, you will be dismissed. One of the best fencers in my class was kicked out after they used the n-word.
Fencing, for all it’s armor and safety precautions, CAN still be dangerous. They’re still swords. There are accidents. Most of the time this means a bruise or cut, but there was one time when a blade broke mid-lunge as it went under a mask and cut someone’s throat. It was an accident and both the person hurt and the person whose blade broke were a bit traumatized by it. Impressively, the girl who was hurt is starting to fence again.
I’ve found that whenever I’m feeling really bad depression-wise, fencing can pull me out of it.
For me, fencing is about perseverance and dedication. It’s hard, but fun, and I have improved so much over the years. I love it.
Yeah pretty much!!!
Psst.. Sorry to bother you, but I saw your tags on that one queer culture post from awhile ago, and like I'm currently trying to learn about/am researching fencing!! I haven't been able to find much sadly, and I know like nothing about sabre, so I was wondering if you'd be fine with telling me about what it's like?? This has low-key become really interesting to me lately, and I'd love to hear stories from an actual fencer if your fine w/ that!! /gen /pos
ABSOLUTELY!!!! I could talk about fencing for HOURS!!! Not sure exactly what info you’re looking for but Im so glad you’re interested!
I’ve been fencing for about 3 years and have been fencing competitively for about 2 years. I started after my dad told me to pick a sport and I said either horseback riding, archery, or sword fighting, so he found a fencing club near us. This is just my opinions and experiences.
Ok so first things first: 3 types of fencing
1. Épée (which I began with, learning the sport, the simplest)
2. Foil (which I know barely anything about tbh)
3. Sabre (my pride and joy, my sport, my love, easily the best kind fight me)
Sabre can use both the edge of the blade and the tip (though mostly edge) anywhere from the waist up.
Fencing positions (advances, retreats, lunges, etc.) can feel really weird or awkward at first, but now I will stand almost in engarde position without realizing it.
Fencing is a bit more of an individual sport than most, but it still requires at least two people to work and you don’t want to just keep fencing the same person (I actually have a whole thing about how different benders from A:TLA work with different fencing styles and personalities if you’d like to see that).
Some of my experiences: there’s not too many girls until you get to the upper classes. Fencing is kind of a small world (at least two fencers from my fencing club are at the Olympics this week and our coach casually pulled out a Sabre from the 2016 rio Olympics at one point which was kind of insane). Manners are key. If you do not have proper manners and respect, you will be dismissed. One of the best fencers in my class was kicked out after they used the n-word.
Fencing, for all it’s armor and safety precautions, CAN still be dangerous. They’re still swords. There are accidents. Most of the time this means a bruise or cut, but there was one time when a blade broke mid-lunge as it went under a mask and cut someone’s throat. It was an accident and both the person hurt and the person whose blade broke were a bit traumatized by it. Impressively, the girl who was hurt is starting to fence again.
I’ve found that whenever I’m feeling really bad depression-wise, fencing can pull me out of it.
For me, fencing is about perseverance and dedication. It’s hard, but fun, and I have improved so much over the years. I love it.
A:TLA Benders as Fencing Styles
Water - Change
-fluid
-uses opponents momentum against them
-distance/makes opponent feel short
-switches up moves
-can be both offensive and defensive
-adapt quickly
-gentle, but can be vicious when they want to
-will check that opponent isn’t hurt
-well-rounded
-balanced
Earth - Substance
-strong
-hold their ground
-face challenges “head on”
-confidence
-perseverance
-hard-working
-tries hardest to win, even if their opponent is much stronger
-reads opponents movements
Fire - Power
-aggressive
-fast
-strategic
-strong attack (will leave bruises)
-energetic
-loud/uses voice to intimidate opponents
-offensive
-strong-willed
-competitive
-emotion-driven
Air - Freedom
-defensive
-distance/fall short
-fluid
-fast
-uses many different moves
-unpredictable moves
-calm
-uses the entire strip
-long attacks
-changes rhythm
-hesitates
I posted it but it won’t let me tag you :(
Psst.. Sorry to bother you, but I saw your tags on that one queer culture post from awhile ago, and like I'm currently trying to learn about/am researching fencing!! I haven't been able to find much sadly, and I know like nothing about sabre, so I was wondering if you'd be fine with telling me about what it's like?? This has low-key become really interesting to me lately, and I'd love to hear stories from an actual fencer if your fine w/ that!! /gen /pos
ABSOLUTELY!!!! I could talk about fencing for HOURS!!! Not sure exactly what info you’re looking for but Im so glad you’re interested!
I’ve been fencing for about 3 years and have been fencing competitively for about 2 years. I started after my dad told me to pick a sport and I said either horseback riding, archery, or sword fighting, so he found a fencing club near us. This is just my opinions and experiences.
Ok so first things first: 3 types of fencing
1. Épée (which I began with, learning the sport, the simplest)
2. Foil (which I know barely anything about tbh)
3. Sabre (my pride and joy, my sport, my love, easily the best kind fight me)
Sabre can use both the edge of the blade and the tip (though mostly edge) anywhere from the waist up.
Fencing positions (advances, retreats, lunges, etc.) can feel really weird or awkward at first, but now I will stand almost in engarde position without realizing it.
Fencing is a bit more of an individual sport than most, but it still requires at least two people to work and you don’t want to just keep fencing the same person (I actually have a whole thing about how different benders from A:TLA work with different fencing styles and personalities if you’d like to see that).
Some of my experiences: there’s not too many girls until you get to the upper classes. Fencing is kind of a small world (at least two fencers from my fencing club are at the Olympics this week and our coach casually pulled out a Sabre from the 2016 rio Olympics at one point which was kind of insane). Manners are key. If you do not have proper manners and respect, you will be dismissed. One of the best fencers in my class was kicked out after they used the n-word.
Fencing, for all it’s armor and safety precautions, CAN still be dangerous. They’re still swords. There are accidents. Most of the time this means a bruise or cut, but there was one time when a blade broke mid-lunge as it went under a mask and cut someone’s throat. It was an accident and both the person hurt and the person whose blade broke were a bit traumatized by it. Impressively, the girl who was hurt is starting to fence again.
I’ve found that whenever I’m feeling really bad depression-wise, fencing can pull me out of it.
For me, fencing is about perseverance and dedication. It’s hard, but fun, and I have improved so much over the years. I love it.
Haha yeah
But also there is a reason to this and it’s so that it’s harder for you to beat the blade (and to demoralize and frighten like you said)
will never forget one of the fencing tournaments where this person like twice my size was spinning their saber around to intimidate like some kind of anime villain. and not just a quick little flourish it was DEVELOPED. like before they came up and thrashed me they did like some fancy maneuvers for no reason besides apparently the thrill of demoralizing a manlet.
Once a blade broke so we stopped the bout right and then we realized that it has broken in TWO places because when we held it the way it should be it was shorter and we searched and searched for the third shard of broken saber
We never found it
I feel like there aren’t enough shitposts about fencing. This sport is fucking wild man, I have 80 million problems and my weapons and body cords breaking on the strip are all of them. All the weapons have rivalries against each other, epees have to listen to the sabers and foils bitch about right of way and their refs being shit… I feel like there should be some more shit about a dumbass sport on this dumbass website
On a different but similar note, in Riposte when Adrien and Kagami first fence, they start off using épée techniques and fencing épée but then as soon as they unhook it’s shown that they are using sabres and then they start using sabre techniques, which is just- no. It changes the target area, the weapon they use, and the freakin’ RULES! (Sabre and foil are military sports, épée is made for dueling and has a WHOLE ton less rules)
But none of this matters because before and after the bout they didn’t salute, shake hands, NOTHING????? You can get disqualified for that in sabre?? And I know it’s not that big of a deal because it’s fencing in a cartoon and even then it’s a fencing CLASS not a competing but come on they’re claiming to be the best fencing school in Paris and they don’t even do the basics when it comes to manners we learned this stuff our first day
OK SO DIFF ANON BUT whenever Adrien is show fencing in s1 he's using an épée, HOWEVER the techniques he uses (in fencing or as Chat Noir) are actually sabre techniques (it wouldn't actually work in a real match but shh it's a cartoon) so I'm guessing he practices both
that’s actually really interesting omg???
hi hello i found your blog in the fencing tag and saw you fence sabre too??? idk many other fencers on tumblr so i wanted to just say hi :)
OH MY GOSH HIIII FELLOW FENCER!!!!
hi hello i found your blog in the fencing tag and saw you fence sabre too??? idk many other fencers on tumblr so i wanted to just say hi :)
OH MY GOSH HIIII FELLOW FENCER!!!!
Yay!! Friend!
hi hello i found your blog in the fencing tag and saw you fence sabre too??? idk many other fencers on tumblr so i wanted to just say hi :)
OH MY GOSH HIIII FELLOW FENCER!!!!
Anyway here’s a uquiz that tells you what sword you are in fencing
fencing should be gay because it involves swords but it's actually homophobic because due to silly little things like health and safety considerations you have to wear a full body jacket instead of a loose white shirt with half the buttons undone to show a tasteful glimpse of chest and a mask that protects your eyes but prevents you from homoerotically gazing into your opponent's as you cross blades
hello I am also a sabre fencer, saw you on the fencing tag
Yes! Another one!!!!
They’re also using sabers but what looks like épée gear lol
this you?
No they're not even wearing breeches
A:TLA Benders as Fencing Styles
Water - Change
-fluid
-uses opponents momentum against them
-distance/makes opponent feel short
-switches up moves
-can be both offensive and defensive
-adapt quickly
-gentle, but can be vicious when they want to
-will check that opponent isn’t hurt
-well-rounded
-balanced
Earth - Substance
-strong
-hold their ground
-face challenges “head on”
-confidence
-perseverance
-hard-working
-tries hardest to win, even if their opponent is much stronger
-reads opponents movements
Fire - Power
-aggressive
-fast
-strategic
-strong attack (will leave bruises)
-energetic
-loud/uses voice to intimidate opponents
-offensive
-strong-willed
-competitive
-emotion-driven
Air - Freedom
-defensive
-distance/fall short
-fluid
-fast
-uses many different moves
-unpredictable moves
-calm
-uses the entire strip
-long attacks
-changes rhythm
-hesitates
People who say it’s unrealistic for heroes to unmask for the emotional finale of a movie have clearly never seen fencers rip off their masks in devastation every time they lose a point