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Post by schlager7 on Jun 7, 2011 7:48:25 GMT -6
My, how that game has changed...
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Post by phillipmj on Jun 7, 2011 8:13:45 GMT -6
Looks more like epee.
And they don't play that cheesy music during sabre bouts anymore. Or I just can't hear it over the screaming.
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Post by Dan Gorman on Jun 8, 2011 0:21:01 GMT -6
And I was thinking the music was the only worthwhile part to that clip. I think it was actually more tedious to watch than the epee one. Sometimes I'm thankful I live in the modern era.
Dan
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Post by schlager7 on Jun 8, 2011 7:27:29 GMT -6
It certainly was very different from today's sabre. Even so, when I look at other footage of sabre from roughly the same era (late 1920s-early 1930s) this still seemed particularly slow.
Here's a sabre demo in front of the Pantheon in Paris in 1928.
Of course, this IS heavily edited and appears to be more of a demo than a competitive bout. They did not have to sell the touch to a director.
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Post by Aldo N on Jun 8, 2011 12:12:46 GMT -6
The "Pantheon" clip looks like two guys having fun and giving the sports a "show." Nothing wrong with that.
As to the Olympic clip, I have to think part of the slow, deliberateness of the bout has to do with that fact that this was before there was an impartial way of proving a touch (i.e. electrical scoring systems) and the fact that your cut had to be absolutely OBVIOUS TO BLIND MEN.
Read Cohen's book. What with national rivalries and pride on the line, there was a lot of cheating and favoring (for and against) depending on which country you represented and which country your corner judge (and director) came from.
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