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Why Is Sabre ...
... the recipient of the FIE’s social experiments? Some may remember the long running attacks of the 1960s and 1970s. Then these were resulting in too many simultaneous attacks, so we flipped a coin, gave one fencer the right to do 3 attacks with the other having to defend, repeated the process for the other fencer if no one scored, and then went back to normal fencing until the next time. Of course, that fixed the problem of simultaneous attacks completely, as anyone who has ever watched a current sabre bout can attest. Then the fleche got banned, along with any forward foot crossing, even if it wasn’t even remotely an attack. And we got the strange flunge as a result ... and the capteur, replaced by a heavier blade that penetrated gloves to eliminate the whipover judges used to be able to see. Not to mention the 120 milliseconds lock out, now replaced by 170 in a test that will force scoring machines nationwide to be reprogrammed. The crowning oddity is putting the back foot on the on guard line. We only need now to return to once off, back to the warning line, and the point in line can only be executed standing stock still, to round out my 51st year of fencing sabre in style. What is any of this to do with actually fencing sabre? What has sabre ever done to its governing bodies to deserve this?
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