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When you do something physically intensive, fighting to hit someone who's doing their damnedest to stop you and hit you back, in a high pressure situation, it
by xen0 5y ago
When you do something physically intensive, fighting to hit
someone who's doing their damnedest to stop you and hit you back, in a high pressure situation, it can be really hard to not shout/scream when you succeed, or even just believe you succeeded.
Not many people are super-cool in that situation.
But, admittedly, the shouting can be a bit of a meme in the fencing community.
- jessaustin 5y agoI have no problem with genuine celebration, in any sport. I have no problem with any vocalization that accompanies a vigorous action, such as in tennis or kendo. I'm sure that in many cases what seems to my untrained eye to be special pleading via emotional outburst is really just a reaction to a clearly valid touch that both opponents and all judges would acknowledge. But, do they have to take off their face shields after every point? Surely that gets at least as tiresome for experienced fencers as it does for relatively ignorant observers?