Fencing

Julia | Foil | FENCING! En garde... Prêt... ALLEZ

[justfencerthings]

foil: torso and like sometimes the flank saber: limbs n stuff man but no head shots epee: just fucking hit them

[thehipsterfencer]

Talks with coach

Coach: What's up with your lunge

Me: uhh well I'm trying to make it longer

Coach: it looks like your doing freaking yoga

[usatoday]

I can’t tell you why it happened to me, but I know that I’m Muslim. I have an Arabic name. And even though I represent Team USA and I have that Olympic hardware, it doesn’t change how you look and how people perceive you.

Fencer Ibtihaj Muhammad, the first female Muslim American to medal for the U.S. in the Olympics, was recently detained at U.S. Customs for two hours without explanation.

(via usatoday)

[the-fencing-life]

Things We Think of During A Bout:

•Why is this ref so bad?

•Where the hell is my coach?

•Man I should’ve packed a Gatorade

•Why does my opponent keep hitting me in the fucking leg!?! How bout you pick somewhere else that isn’t completely ridiculous!

•Hey that fencer over there is pretty hot!

•Dammit this ref must hate me

•Why are my socks so dirty?!?

•Why the fuck are my socks falling down?!?

•My blade has a weird bend that won’t come out ahhhhhhhhhhh

•I’m going to fucking lose this bout

•Is my phone in my pocket……?!?!?

•Ok you have the lead don’t fuck it up….. You fucked up

•No matter how stupid the calls are that the ref is making try not to strangle them!

•Thank god for the break! My nose was itchy as fuuuuuuckkkkkk

•I really need to pee

•I have a wedgie like a motherfucker

•Why is my opponent yelling when that was obviously my touch, fucking dumbass

•Dad stop yelling along the sidelines what I need to do, my coach is literally right next to you

•Where the fuck are my parents

•How the hell am I suppose to get to 15, this is gonna take too long!

•Wait where’s my coach going?!? I can’t do this without you, ahhhhhhhhhh!!!!!!!!!

•Don’t get emotional during this bout, knock it off!!!

•We get it you’re aggressive, but that doesn’t mean you have to scream…. Jerk

•Omg my glove is so sweaty

•I’m honestly starving

•That totally wasn’t my touch…. But I’m not gonna tell the ref that

•Why is her coach telling her an entire sequence of things to do against me? They realize I can hear….right?

•I need to sneeze…

•I swear if their body cord goes off again I’m going to rip it out of their jacket and slap them with it

•It’s your weapon that’s not working, how is this a mystery gahhhhhhhhhhhhd

•hey I think my ref kinda likes me…..

•wait a second what did coach just tell me to do like two seconds ago…. WHY AM I SO FORGETFUL

•no I don’t have a dead spot, you’re just really bad at controlling your blade

•did my opponent just sass the ref? Omg I’m gonna win this!

•holy sh*t there’s only 40 seconds left!!!!! F**************ccccccckkkk

•who the hell is screaming?!? Where’s that screaming coming from?

•wow, I can see my opponents face through their mask…. They look really angry or like they need to take a shit

•omg let’s try something new in this bout… Why did I try something new in that bout…

•hahaaaaaaaaaaa I only have one touch left in order to win!!!!!!! (1 min later) how did I fuck that up?

[makoivis]

Every beginner ever <3

[justfencerthings]

going home from practice with new bruises and feeling acomplished

[justfencerthings]

Carrying. All. That. Fucking. Gear. Bonus points for hot weather.

[donttellmehowtofence]

Don’t tell me how to mannequin challenge. 

[modernfencing]

[ID: a video of foilists at a club doing the mannequin challenge by standing completely still in different poses.]

[thehipsterfencer]

That "wanna fence?" nod

[blackcoffeecloud]

work until your idols become your rivals. first meet is a week away. ✌

[modernfencing]

[ID: a closeup of an epee fencer lunging.]

[arctic-biologist]

Okay my camera on my new phone is awful but there was a fencing t Rex at my campus today guys

[theartisangeek]

Not study related, but as a fencer with a bad taste in humour, I find this picture to be awfully hilarious

[modernfencing]

[ID: two fencers on swings, bouting with foils.]

Fencing Mob in Beaverton, OR!

[modernfencing]

[ID: one photo of a wheelchair foilist shouting in victory, another photo of a wheelchair foil bout.]

Beatrice Vio (top) took gold in women’s foil Cat. B yesterday! China took every other gold - Jing Rong (bottom, left) won women’s Cat. A, Yanke Feng won men’s Cat. B, and Ruyi Ye won men’s cat. A! Men’s and women’s epee team today - I’m watching Poland v China in women’s team, which has been ridic tense.

[justen-perez]

Jordan Ver Hoeve & Model, ph: Dominic Petruzzi for Ocean Magazine

[thehipsterfencer]

Hi there 🙌

[neeteryincorporated]

[modernfencing]

[ID: three photos of a foil team celebrating a win. In the last photo the referee is trying to peel one of the fencers away to shake hands.]

Still catching up - Russia won gold in men’s foil team! France got silver and the US won bronze.

[thehipsterfencer]

The emotions of fencing