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Post by Martin Gale on Feb 26, 2014 10:34:57 GMT -6
Interesting article by Maestro Gil Pezza on creating a different system for fencing, to be employed strictly for television. My thanks to Fencing.Net for pointing me to this article... Fencing and the Tree Tenors
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Post by joevisconti on Feb 26, 2014 10:38:44 GMT -6
I am tired of almost constant changes to fencing, but tweaking it for TV sounds fair. What on television hasn't been tweaked? I really liked the idea of building up some interesting rivalries. What audiences want is a team or athlete to cheer for.
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Post by schlager7 on Feb 26, 2014 10:42:31 GMT -6
I am of two minds on tweaks for the tube. As to the idea joevisconti highlighted, this sounds somewhat similar to part of a discussion Dan Gorman and I had at the Van Buskirk last weekend.
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Post by Dan Gorman on Mar 1, 2014 10:24:39 GMT -6
Fencing isn't in television because people aren't emotionally invested in any fencers. They watch tennis our golf when they care about a player, they watch team sports for the teams. The NFL had a stroke of genius with fantasy football and now is the most watched sport in the US.
For all the people who watch basketball, there is probably a large percentage who don't know that there are actual plays on offense and defense that get called. Same for soccer.
To get people to each fencing we have to expose them to it in school and get them to care about one of the fencers.
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Post by joevisconti on Mar 3, 2014 10:31:08 GMT -6
Dan is correct. We have to get kids interested in school. I lived for a time in New Jersey. It is unbelievable (by comparison with Texas)how many people follow fencing between the school (just like all the high school sports) in parts of the state. If a dozen other states could replicate that following you would begin to see a national change.
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Gawain's Dev - Love Swordplay
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Post by Gawain's Dev - Love Swordplay on Jun 16, 2014 16:07:56 GMT -6
I popped on because I was searching for the Fencing Forum (FF) and fencing.net (F.N) posts on Gawain (the paperless competition management system). And stumbled onto this forum, and now, this thread.
This is a discussion that's fascinating to me.
On FF, I'm currently posting to a thread that started off with someone discussing how great it would be to turn over refereeing to a Google Car of fencing.
After a few posts, I gradually began to see how we could automate the refereeing of right-of-way. This would allow us to lower the skill level of refereeing in foil and sabre down to the level of skill required to referee epée.
But after reading the Italian article that this thread points to, I'm now starting to think that it would make the slo-mo replays for the vast tv audience of non-fencers during the Olympics much more accessible, which would allow folk to root for a fencer much more. If you can see what they did, and when, because it's shown to you in an obvious, stand-out fashion, you can then use your attention (as a lay audience member) on appreciating what the fencer did, instead of using your attention on trying to work out what went on. And, most of the time, never getting more sophisticated than "Oh, the referee has given it that way".
Thanks for flagging up that thread.
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