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Post by fox on Jul 28, 2005 13:41:07 GMT -6
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Post by Dan Gorman on Jul 28, 2005 17:10:53 GMT -6
There's is (was?) a group at A&M. They used to crash our practices once in a while, but seem to have stopped the last few years.
Dan
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Post by diggy5 on Nov 13, 2005 23:51:07 GMT -6
As a former member of Stonebridge Keep (Victoria), I can tell you that fencing there is almost non existant, they focus mainly on heavy fighting. Seawinds (Corpus) has a pretty good fencing group though.
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Post by schlager7 on Nov 14, 2005 8:40:46 GMT -6
Perhaps they and the local USFA fencing group for Corpus Christi, the Coastal Bend Fencing Society, may encounter each other... although Grace's group is actually just down the road in Robstown.
Perhaps they could make a joint visit to the renaissance faire that they hold in Ingleside near Christmas...
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Post by diggy5 on Nov 15, 2005 9:10:36 GMT -6
Im pretty sure the Corpus group will have a booth at the Ingleside ren fest, theres been alot of talk about it on their email list.
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Post by fox on Nov 16, 2005 9:00:47 GMT -6
Interesting that Victoria has little of the foil/epee brand of SCA fencing. From what I've read here, there is also no USFA fencing there.
Sounds to me like an area ripe for development by both groups.
BTW - I see the blurb on the news fader at the top of this page about Autumn Melees in the Beaumont/Port Arthur area. Now being ignorant, would that be with foils and epees or is it heavy fighting?
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Post by saberbobcat on Nov 17, 2005 22:46:08 GMT -6
;D Now this is interesting indeed! Other fencers in our neck of the woods? Guess I'll make a road trip to Ingleside. I had no idea that they even had a festival there... When will it be?
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Post by saberbobcat on Nov 17, 2005 22:49:19 GMT -6
Awwww! Looks like I missed it in October.
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Post by schlager7 on Nov 18, 2005 7:59:13 GMT -6
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Post by Dakao Do on Feb 22, 2006 18:40:37 GMT -6
To give my answer to fox's original question: There's a fair amount of fencing at the Tuesday night UH practices. In the past few months, we've usually outnumbered the heavy rattan fighters. A further breakdown of fencing styles indicates a roughly even split between double-wide epees and diamond cross-section (Scottie, Del Tin, Darkwood) / schlager blades ("heavy rapiers"). Just about all the veteran SCA fencers I know can and do often fence with heavy rapiers. But I'm biased -- I only fenced epee / foil with the Rice Fencing club, and I stick to period rapier play with bated blades for Western Martial Arts (WMA) and SCA fencing. As an interesting sidenote to those of us who don't follow long-term SCA trends, I understand that the SCA Gulf Wars fencing events this year will be exclusively heavy rapier -- no epees allowed. Two years ago, at another event, we had a series of tournaments and demonstrations which gave predictions of where the SCA is headed (in fits and starts). In the antediluvian past, we fenced with a mish mash of foils, epees, and home-made contraptions. We currently fence with epees (which I feel are more of a smallsword style) and an increasing proportion of heavy blades (~1600's rapiers). We are working on formalizing the addition of sidesword (aka cut-and-thrust) fencing (mid-1500's).
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