dfa
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Post by dfa on May 22, 2011 9:09:56 GMT -6
Has anyone tried electric epee and dagger 2 handed fencing yet? If so, did you use a standard strip or did you fence wireless?
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Post by schlager7 on May 22, 2011 9:49:43 GMT -6
I've never fenced 2-handed with electric scoring devices, just usual rapier/dagger or rapier/cloak.
IIRC, there was an article in American Fencing some 5-10 years back that even had the layout for how it was done. I want to think it used sometime like a #5 & a 0-epee, body cords going down each arm and some type of Y-connector. It was done on a regular fencing strip.
On another tack, there was also a system someone came up with for 2-person simultaneous teams. I think that was simply two grounded strips connected such that they were one extra-wide strip and 2 scoreboxes, one above the other.
Both ideas seemed fun but I have never tried them.
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Post by fox on May 22, 2011 9:55:08 GMT -6
I've done it a couple of way. The first time we used French and/or Italian grip epees wired into the system and various smaller blades, not connected to the system strictly for parrying purposes. Not ideal, but this was many years ago (late 1950s?). One other time, after electric sabres came into play (this was still in the days of the captur, though, IIRC) a fellow worked up some way to run two off a single floor cord (or perhaps he ran two reels each side and tied them together at the box?) We used standard and 0-2 sized sabre. You thing the lights come on quickly in sabre now? ?
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