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Excellent!
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02-24-2013, 04:41 PM
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still says videotape
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Today was different. I'm still recovering from whatever happened Friday afternoon. I fenced very carefully saving energy all day and wound up in fourth place.
The topper of the day was a bout only an epeeist could love. I fenced this college guy, who had beaten me in epee and sabre last time out. In the pools, I beat him by hopping openning up quick counter attacks. So he figures he'll slow me down in the de, to which I say thankyou as I am feeling pretty run down today. First period we fence to 0-0, lots of false attacks nobody committing. Second period he picks my hand beautifully on a compound attack. 0-1 going into the third. I break out the hopping a little bit get him moving back and forth and work his wrist obsessively, which as intended opens up his knee on an advance 1-1 w00t. Time runs out he gets priority (randomly assigned) in OT. That means I have to score or I lose. We double touch once nothing done. I slowly work him to the end of the strip and make a false attack at his foot at about 55 seconds. He recovers with his front foot on the endline. I go for it again, he goes off the end of the strip point and bout to the old guy with almost a second to spare. Craziest win ever.
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02-24-2013, 04:49 PM
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Sweet victory!
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02-24-2013, 04:56 PM
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Not Suspicious, Merely Canadian
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Nicely done!
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02-24-2013, 08:58 PM
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Guile and cunning will often beat youthful speed.
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02-25-2013, 12:07 AM
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a beautiful fool
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Huzzah!
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02-25-2013, 01:17 AM
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The future is unwritten
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Heh heh, ya don't survive this long by being stupid.
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02-25-2013, 06:22 PM
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Nice!
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02-26-2013, 12:51 PM
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They keep settin'em up and you keep choppin' them down.
Nice work, nice work.
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02-26-2013, 07:43 PM
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Turns out my CRS is a symptom of TMB.
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08-09-2013, 09:05 PM
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still says videotape
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America! Fuck Yeah!
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08-09-2013, 09:43 PM
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USA? But he's not white, might not even be Christian, and he's skinny!
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08-10-2013, 07:13 AM
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still says videotape
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Well, he was born in Britain... They're fat too though!
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08-10-2013, 08:05 AM
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The future is unwritten
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Ah, living the American dream... move to America, accomplish an astounding feat, remain poor and fairly obscure to sports fans and the public.
Of course the prick foiled Griff's chances of being the first American, but he can still be the first native born. 
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08-10-2013, 08:26 AM
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still says videotape
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Nah, he uses the wrong weapon. Epee is the real deal. I'm gonna start targeting Veteran world championships but I have to survive a couple more years.
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