Keystone Games

[Griff]

Originally Posted by jester

Wow - that's very exciting. Congratulations. I'm not familiar with this type of contest, is this a "year-round" type competition? Do they have "schools" for this in your area?

It is year round but summer is kind of quiet as far as tournaments go. There are camps this time of year but with vacations and such some clubs shut right down. We have one competitive fencing club in town and one classical club. We don't bump into guys from the other club much since they travel in a different circle and don't often come over to the "Dark Side" which is how the kids in York say their classical coach describes electric fencing.

I totally get what the classical fencers are saying because electrical fencing drifted away from the original idea that you need to fence as if a touch is potentially fatal. They've improved the rule enforcement in competitive fencing to address much of that, but the bottom line is nobody is fencing with real foils so it is all for fun anyway.

Here's a youtube vid that gives you an idea what it looks like.

[jester]

That's very cool