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Originally Posted by Zeraph
Oh please, don't give me that holy than thou attitude. To almost everyone it's fencing. If I said anything else they wouldn't know what I meant.
Plus they (basically) wear the same type of armor, same type of weapons. People don't get as good in it because there's no prestige/money in it on the Olympic level and it tends to be older men with back problems doing it. If anything though it requires more strategy and skill, seeing as how there's less rules, occasionally offhand weapons, and mass melees.
Also, the dictionary would agree with me.
As for the 2nd, I wasn't commenting on a lack of replies, but more on the nature of them.
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Actually, the dictionary won't agree with you. The equipment's nothing alike, especially considering that all three fencing blades are electrified, and two of them require electrified masks and clothing. I compete in a sport - you do not.
I've got nothing against SCA doing what they do and doing creative things with parts of the sport, but let's be perfectly clear that you are NOT fencers and are NOT athletes. You're having a good time, and I'm all for that, but telling me that what you do as play requires more skill and strategy than what I do as an athlete and competitor is insulting. And to say that there's no money or prestige in fencing at the Olympic level is just ignorant. I ran a fencing sal for 4 years with two partners, and we grossed about $500k in the last year and sold the business for a nice profit. About 90% of our students were under 18, including 2 national champions. And we got 8 kids into schools on fencing scholarships that they otherwise wouldn't have been able to attend.
I know that this is your thread and all, but if you're going to act like an ass, I'm going to stop being respectful, which I think I've been up to this point. Let's just agree that folks in SCA have fun at what they do, it's a great hobby but that referring to one portion of that fun as "fencing" isn't a really accurate description, especially when dealing with someone who knows what the fuck they're talking about.