We found a new trailer for Mario and Sonic at the Olympic Games. This video shows off the fencing event, which will have you waving the Wii-mote around like you’re playing swordfighting in the back yard. There’s no FIE gear or even fencing masks on the characters, but also nobody gets their eye poked out.
Over the next week I’m betting that I get a couple of orders for overnight shipping of a practice foil to help complete the perfect fencing halloween costume. It happens every year.
But, why not pick up a rapier - something that looks a bit more like what Zorro or The Man in Black (Princess Bride) would have used? The rapier will look a bit cooler than a typical practice foil, but the practice foil is also a lot less expensive.
To each their own. My kids are again going as police officer and fireman and next year we’ll see if the newborn will wear the hand-me-down baby cow costume. Me, I bought a couple of things at the UNC Student Stores last weekend that I’ll be using as my costume, and maybe regular apparel come basketball season. Blue hair anyone?
If you check out this interview with Valentina Vezzali over at Schermaonline you’ll get some nice insights into Italian fencing and good quotes from Vezzali.
Why does she make me sick? Well, she’s won her 9th World Cup Title, 5th World Championship and she says in the interview that she’s performing at “only about 60% - 70%” since coming back from an injury.
Here’s a great post by Bill Ward, who is blogging for FencingPictures over at the World Championships:
I Flew All the Way to Russia…
…and all I got to fence was another American! That had to be running through the minds of Cody Mattern and Benjamin Ungar today when they had to face off in the round of 64. Not a nice, easy trip to an NAC in Columbus…this was the World Champs in the land of borscht.
Video highlights of the 2007 Individual World Championships in Women’s Sabre. Surprisingly, no US fencers finished in the medal round with Ward ousted in the 32 and Zagunis and Jacobson out in the quarterfinals (top-8).