Comments on: Schweep! http://www.neptunuslex.com/2008/08/09/schweep/ The unbearable lightness of Lex. Enjoy! Thu, 09 Feb 2012 20:21:05 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Kevin http://www.neptunuslex.com/2008/08/09/schweep/comment-page-1/#comment-235059 Kevin Mon, 11 Aug 2008 02:44:11 +0000 http://www.neptunuslex.com/?p=4754#comment-235059 ND needs to update their fencing page. http://www.nd.edu/~fencing/web/index.htm Although it appears she may not have been on the school team during either of her Olympic medal wins. Go Irish! ND needs to update their fencing page.

http://www.nd.edu/~fencing/web/index.htm

Although it appears she may not have been on the school team during either of her Olympic medal wins.

Go Irish!

]]> By: Marianne Matthews http://www.neptunuslex.com/2008/08/09/schweep/comment-page-1/#comment-235033 Marianne Matthews Sun, 10 Aug 2008 22:53:42 +0000 http://www.neptunuslex.com/?p=4754#comment-235033 Fast Nav ... thanks so much for the link. My husband and I may still have all our buttons, but we are somewhat technologically challenged, in spite of our best efforts. Marianne Fast Nav … thanks so much for the link. My husband and I may still have all our buttons, but we are somewhat technologically challenged, in spite of our best efforts.

Marianne

]]> By: Fast Nav http://www.neptunuslex.com/2008/08/09/schweep/comment-page-1/#comment-235027 Fast Nav Sun, 10 Aug 2008 22:16:36 +0000 http://www.neptunuslex.com/?p=4754#comment-235027 Marianne - The www.NBCOlympics.com website has a great listing for all the sports, and those that aren't televised they have live web feeds for. I watched Seth Kelsey go out in a blaze of glory in the round of 32 for men's epee last night. Marianne –
The http://www.NBCOlympics.com website has a great listing for all the sports, and those that aren’t televised they have live web feeds for. I watched Seth Kelsey go out in a blaze of glory in the round of 32 for men’s epee last night.

]]> By: Chap http://www.neptunuslex.com/2008/08/09/schweep/comment-page-1/#comment-234989 Chap Sun, 10 Aug 2008 19:20:57 +0000 http://www.neptunuslex.com/?p=4754#comment-234989 Banned in Cali. But Ive seen 'em in the CheaperThanDirt.com catalog, and in the sword lover's store in Japantown in SFO I think they have 'em in the back somewhere... Banned in Cali. But Ive seen ‘em in the CheaperThanDirt.com catalog, and in the sword lover’s store in Japantown in SFO I think they have ‘em in the back somewhere…

]]> By: Marianne Matthews http://www.neptunuslex.com/2008/08/09/schweep/comment-page-1/#comment-234977 Marianne Matthews Sun, 10 Aug 2008 17:40:58 +0000 http://www.neptunuslex.com/?p=4754#comment-234977 Sim ... thanks for the good advice. Wish you'd been around when I was fencing. Does anyone know when the epee and foil matches are scheduled? Our newspaper sports and TV schedules are singularly uncommunicative. In Athens at the Olympics, they always were scheduled at 2 or 3 a.m. our time, making it a real drag to wake up and get up. {we don't have a program recorder thing or we can't work it}. I always thought, when younger, that it would be useful when I got old to know something about fencing. I'd love to own a swordstick, because most people would think it was a cane. But there are few if any swordsticks on the market. Why is that? Marianne Sim … thanks for the good advice. Wish you’d been around when I was fencing. Does anyone know when the epee and foil matches are scheduled? Our newspaper sports and TV schedules are singularly uncommunicative. In Athens at the Olympics, they always were scheduled at 2 or 3 a.m. our time, making it a real drag to wake up and get up. {we don’t have a program recorder thing or we can’t work it}.

I always thought, when younger, that it would be useful when I got old to know something about fencing. I’d love to own a swordstick, because most people would think it was a cane. But there are few if any swordsticks on the market.

Why is that?

Marianne

]]> By: lex http://www.neptunuslex.com/2008/08/09/schweep/comment-page-1/#comment-234976 lex Sun, 10 Aug 2008 17:40:50 +0000 http://www.neptunuslex.com/?p=4754#comment-234976 There was a Russian foil fencer killed back in 1982, I believe - the point broke and the remainder went through his mask and eye and into his brain. Vladimir Smirnov, a 1980 gold medalist and 1981 world champion. Closer to home, a Princeton epeeist was twice injured fencing at Navy. Got run through the abdomen by a broken tip my plebe year, and fell, breaking his wrist the next year. Sabre always hurt, and there were times - especially with Hungarian blades, back before the sport was electrified - that I looked like some class of S&M addict. Never really felt that I might get <em>killed</em> doing it though. There was a Russian foil fencer killed back in 1982, I believe – the point broke and the remainder went through his mask and eye and into his brain. Vladimir Smirnov, a 1980 gold medalist and 1981 world champion. Closer to home, a Princeton epeeist was twice injured fencing at Navy. Got run through the abdomen by a broken tip my plebe year, and fell, breaking his wrist the next year.

Sabre always hurt, and there were times – especially with Hungarian blades, back before the sport was electrified – that I looked like some class of S&M addict. Never really felt that I might get killed doing it though.

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