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First a rant: There is precisely one other female foilist at my club.
She refuses to fence me. It is most frustrating. I need girlie foilist practise.
I can think of 3 reasons why this might be, none of which are good (or indeed accurate).
1 - She thinks she's enough better than me that she doesn't need to. Which she isn't. I mean, she beats me when we don't have a ref, but when we have a ref, it becomes a different result, shall we say. I don't mind when J doesn't fence me, because, yeah, he gets nothing out of our matches, but she's not enough better than me to get nothing out of it. [J is forgiven. He fenced me. I nearly hit him this time. I think D explained that I am useful flicking practise.]
2 - That I hit too hard. Which I don't think I do. I mean, I've never had any complaints, and I'm constantly apologising in case I do and get told to shut up because I don't. So I am going to presume that's not it.
3 - She just doesn't like losing (to women). Which is possible. Because it's noticeable that she only does sabre when her little sister isn't there, and she never does epee (because the two girl epeeists are 4th and 15th in the country and she would have no chance). And I'm like, I don't care. I will throw points her way if it makes her happy. I literally just need female speed and distance practise. Please!
Second, a competition:
So I did the Liverpool or whatever it's called this year.
My pool went very, very well, won 3, lost 1. In defence of one of the people I beat, C had a pulled intercostal so breathing was bit of an issue. Which is really the only reason why I beat her for the first time ever. Even knowing that, it is still a little disconcerting when your opponent starts clutching her chest in the middle of a bout.
She's fine. Well she has a dislocated and broken little finger (not me, one of the bambinos who shall be S the destroyer forever more) but she has not keeled over.
It was one of those competitions. Someone else has a self-inflicted sore palm when she fell over her own feet onto her foil guard (in short, ouch) and someone else fell over backwards twice.
The girl who fell over a lot came second, but oddly, I beat her in our pool match. I think it was because she'd told me she was actually an epeeist and that I have learnt to fencing with cunning and guile in my old age.
Knockout match went less well, finished up losing 4-15 or 5-15 (ref was very quick to turn the scoreboard off and the full results aren't up yet [actually I've just had an idea who I can ask]). I don't mind, A is very good and is off to fence on the World Cup circuit after Easter. (I'll get her next time ;) )
She refuses to fence me. It is most frustrating. I need girlie foilist practise.
I can think of 3 reasons why this might be, none of which are good (or indeed accurate).
1 - She thinks she's enough better than me that she doesn't need to. Which she isn't. I mean, she beats me when we don't have a ref, but when we have a ref, it becomes a different result, shall we say. I don't mind when J doesn't fence me, because, yeah, he gets nothing out of our matches, but she's not enough better than me to get nothing out of it. [J is forgiven. He fenced me. I nearly hit him this time. I think D explained that I am useful flicking practise.]
2 - That I hit too hard. Which I don't think I do. I mean, I've never had any complaints, and I'm constantly apologising in case I do and get told to shut up because I don't. So I am going to presume that's not it.
3 - She just doesn't like losing (to women). Which is possible. Because it's noticeable that she only does sabre when her little sister isn't there, and she never does epee (because the two girl epeeists are 4th and 15th in the country and she would have no chance). And I'm like, I don't care. I will throw points her way if it makes her happy. I literally just need female speed and distance practise. Please!
Second, a competition:
So I did the Liverpool or whatever it's called this year.
My pool went very, very well, won 3, lost 1. In defence of one of the people I beat, C had a pulled intercostal so breathing was bit of an issue. Which is really the only reason why I beat her for the first time ever. Even knowing that, it is still a little disconcerting when your opponent starts clutching her chest in the middle of a bout.
She's fine. Well she has a dislocated and broken little finger (not me, one of the bambinos who shall be S the destroyer forever more) but she has not keeled over.
It was one of those competitions. Someone else has a self-inflicted sore palm when she fell over her own feet onto her foil guard (in short, ouch) and someone else fell over backwards twice.
The girl who fell over a lot came second, but oddly, I beat her in our pool match. I think it was because she'd told me she was actually an epeeist and that I have learnt to fencing with cunning and guile in my old age.
Knockout match went less well, finished up losing 4-15 or 5-15 (ref was very quick to turn the scoreboard off and the full results aren't up yet [actually I've just had an idea who I can ask]). I don't mind, A is very good and is off to fence on the World Cup circuit after Easter. (I'll get her next time ;) )
