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Last night was the ninth week of my fencing course, and the first time I'd used body wires and electric foils. It was less of a faff than I thought it would be - you plug a bayonet socket (very appropriate) into the guard of your foil, and clip another into a bungee cord behind you. There doesn't seem to be any scope to adjust the tension of these cords - I'd hoped you could take it up to 75 kg or so, making for some entertaining bouts. The lame that you wear was a lot lighter than I expected, but it seemed a bit slidey - I was a little frustrated that I kept making contact but not a hit, something that's probably down to my wafting the blade around rather than thrusting in the approved manner.

There were three folk along last night (pretty poor, but one up on last week) so we spent most of our time fencing, and it was scored as if for a tournament. Modesty forbids, and all, but I probably hit slightly more often than I got hit.

Next week we meet at the proper club night, and munchkinstein gets to slice me into ribbons...

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You are along next Thursday?
Cool. We need fresh blood.

I also suffer from slippy lame syndrome. Numerous times I think it should be a hit but it does not register. This is mostly due to the button not depressing fully and for long enough.
So yes, more thrusting, less wafting.
Unless it is at me of course.

The whole class are along next Thursday - of course, that's likely to be, um, me.

Yup, you were tending to land flat, need to practise your point control and fixing the point - feel free to ask me for individual lessons on Thursdays. ;)
Practise using the fingers, and concentrate on pushing the tip onto target rather than pushing the whole blade forward (so your focus is on the tip, not your hand).

Excellent advice - my hand speed should be good, with all the badminton I've played, but that's all about using your wrist to move the racket head to the right place, not the fingers.

All these people who want to slice you into ribbons.....does that not tell you something? :-)

Yup, I must be doing something right...

You realize that you left an opening for innuendo with the information that you have trouble thrusting, right?

Yes, but I trusted my flist not to fill my opening.
So to speak.

Ah, your FL is better-behaved than mine, then. :)

I've trained them well :)