A SCAdian of my acquaintance has nothing but noisy disdain for Olympic fencing because it's all about who can make the biggest noise after the touch to convince the judge that they hit first. I'm not quite there-- I like watching saber, for one thing-- but the restriction of movement and the subsequent restriction of tactics makes me itchy.Also, the masks made me twitchy back then, and probably wouldn't help me any now with my crap vision-- it'd be like looking out of an Amsler grid all the time, and my visual cortex is not up to the challenge of recreating that in my blind spot.
Ard Collier
that Janice chick
Usual Suspect and general menace