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Touche as one might say, you make a good point. I think my bias comes from starting out with japanese sword styles and then moving to european. Instead of huge
by KaiserPro 1y ago
Touche as one might say, you make a good point.
I think my bias comes from starting out with japanese sword styles and then moving to european. Instead of huge wide swings, it was all about jabbing someone on the wrist, or intercepting and controlling the blade.
I think because I tried Epee first, foil just seemed slow.
- yial 1y agoThat makes complete sense. If you’ve tried epee, moving to foil I believe would be hard and not as enjoyable. I know I myself while continuing to fence with foil for years, much preferred epee. Even when teaching, as soon as class was over and I had free time I would put down the foil and switch to epee. One thing I will say is that foil is more enjoyable in my opinion without electronic scoring. Either for fun acknowledging when you’ve been hit, or, with a four judge system. Japanese sword styles have always been fascinating to me, though I lack any formal education in them.