2012 marked one of the best years of my life, and it will be hard to top, undoubtedly. To begin this post, I will require a little tooting of my own horn, so apologies in advance. Over the course of this year, I qualified my first (and hopefully not last student) for the Olympics, took…
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In the 2012 Milwaukee Division I Men’s Epee NAC, Benjamin Wieder was facing Jimmy Moody in the round of 32. Moody secured a 4-5 touch lead at the end of period one. Entering period 2, Moody proceeded to withdraw his blade from reach, fully understanding that Wieder’s forte was in his blade work. Wieder desperately…
At the young age of 10, you could tell Jonathan Yergler had a rare knack for the game of fencing. My mother once turned to me during a tournament and said: “That boy is going to be an Olympian one day.” I agreed. I have had the pleasure of being Jonathan’s teammate at various Florida…
Speak to any fencer, regardless of his/her weapon, and the name “Sergei Golubitsky” echoes in the fencing world as the name “Michael Jordan” does in Basketball or the name “Muhammad Ali” in boxing. Growing up in Florida and learning fencing, the maestro of our salle would always have Golubitsky’s “Golden Bouts” DVD playing, highlighting his…
[youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pVXg-8r3Wqc&w=420&h=315%5D The 2012 Milwaukee North American Cup Division I Women’s Epee final gave us a wonderful 15-14 showdown that placed Olympic Team Bronze Medalist Maya Lawrence as the victor over Ashley Severson. Severson deserves a lot of credit for her resiliency throughout the day, after losing a close bout in repechage 15-14 to Maria…
Talking to fencers about the rule book is like listening to Rabbis study the Talmud. After Mike Still’s thoughtful post in favor of non-combativity, another Brandeis teammate Alex Powell has provided my third guest post against the non-combativity rules. He’s a smart child. I included a picture of me hitting him with a fleche because…
Hey faithful readers! I am pleased to include my former college teammate Mike Still, who has been kind of enough to provide my second guest post. Here, Mike discusses non-combativity and what it has brought to the game of fencing (namely epee).I plan to do a post soon on how to properly incorporate the rule…
The day Hurricane Sandy made landfall, I was involved in an accident that knocked me unconscious. Hours before the hurricane struck, I went to move my car away from a tree. En route back to my apartment, the forces of wind and gravity played their part, and a 15-20 pound tree branch struck me in…
In the highest echelons of competitive fencing, the difference between the best and the very best is narrow. More often than not, matches from the top 16 onward are decided by 2 points or less, with the exception of the occasional wunderkind who bludgeons his/her opponents with ease from tournament start to finish. I have…
