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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...