2nd family

well these are my teammates, except for Kylee who was getting her license the day we took this, also in the photo is our armorer/coach Ashly who wanted to be in the picture too. these people along with our coaches are my 2nd family, crazy as some of them might be that's what they are and that's what they will continue to be. I'm gonna miss them a lot when I go to college

Varsity Invitational

our guys JV placed 9th out of 16 schools at the varsity invitational today. 9th and they were fencing other schools varsity!

oh yeah I should explain today the actual varsity squad sat back and observed too scope out the competition while the JV were getting some experience against other schools varsity squads, this also has the added bonus of not giving the other schools the chance to observe us. they JV did pretty Damn well. I mean 9 out of 16 considering they are JV and were up against varsity really good. in edition we collected a sizable amount of intell on our adversaries and are confident in our ability to utterly destroy almost everyone. seems like the toughest school will be Bacon who we will square of against in our very first meet next Saturday.

oh yeah Kevin had the awesome idea of everyone dressing up and looking real sharp today here is a pick of the coach, varsity squad and Cooper who jumped into the picture, from left to right, yours truly, Austin, Coach Floyd, Kevin, Coopers head, and Tim who didn't bring sunglasses, which makes him a failure.

Cool huh?

This is actually against the rules but....

it just looks kinda cool. the rule it's breaking is that it is something that might distract your oponent.

Ummmmmmm?

first impressions with this photo are simply that they look rather fat, not an ideal for fencers, and there footwork is absolutely horrid. oh and obviously they look more than slightly ridiculous.

relating to the "Fencer" from Star Treck

What can I say I havn't had anything to add for a while and this is what I came up with

Vacation!

right so this is probably the best picture of me from vacation and the coolest thing I have done in a while. My Mom and I went up in a biplane, my brother and uncle did as well, and got a great view of Bar-Harbor, Main. apparently it's were Obama is going on vacation in the near future. which I found kinda cool seeing as we only missed him by a week or so. but back to the flying part it was my first time being in an airplane and man it was awesome I didn't even feel like I was moving! plus the way the fog was rolling over the islands was just so impressive. only downside was that it was really cramped. When i can find the camera again i will put up more pictures & stories but for the moment I'm not sure were it is.

I'm Gone

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and i thought this was too funny not to include










I'm putting my blog on hold for awhile, even though we don't leave till Saturday. I will pick it up again about a week from when we leave.

R, for Red Light Rapier

You know, I feel like something about this picture isnt quite right.

fence

i know in the past i said that only idiots would do a post about an actual fence but this was just too good for me too ignore

Two Classics

=J i like violins they are an amazing instrument, and of course you all know how i feel about fencing so yes it is a given that i like this picture a lot. really wish i could see this persons face though.

It's like T-ball... with swords

Need I say more? =^)

Monkey see, Monkey do, Monkey gonna stab you

Finally a Good Card

No i do not play magic the gathering. i found this doing another one of my fencing image searches the reason i am including it is for the quote, which may or may not be a real quote, at the bottom of the card.

"the first blow is the most important, it often negates the need for a second."

it is well stated so i decided to add it to the blog

the fencing pic i promised

Austin and I after the tournament me with my second place medal and Austin with the "i want to be somewhere else" look on his face

kayaking pic's I promised

from left to right myself and the EGE
from left to right my brothers friend my brother and i

the EGE

Fencers Quilt

so this Thursday is our fencing banquet which means i will be receiving the varsity letter that i have been chasing after these past two seasons. =^D everyone is supposed to bring in either a raffle basket our a $20 donation but my Mom decided to break the mold and is sewing a quilt to raffle off. it is a silhouette of the picture i attached to this post on a really nice greenish background that i am having a hard time describing. it looks awesome and i can't wait to see every ones reactions to my Mom's quilt but don't you dare tell anyone on the team it would ruin the surprise.

oh and on an unrelated random note Firefly has been added to the list of movies people can watch instantly on Netflix which means i will probably waste at aleast an hour finding out just how good the show was.

Danger this picture may couse eyes to fall out of sockets

OK for any guys reading this slip your eyes back in your sockets this is picture is pretty dang cool, but let me start picking apart all the problems with it. for starters they would never let anyone fence in those clothes they would get so badly bruised. second she would definitely need a chest protector. third she is holding two swords and we only ever yous one. one of them is a saber and the other is an epee. by the way she is definitely holding that epee wrong. and could somebody please tell me what the heck she has on her arms there because i have no clue what that's supposed to be. and why the heck is she wearing a hood over her helmet?

Cool Fencing Pic

well here's the deal I really stopped caring about going through the hassle of getting the kayaking pics of my moms camera halfway through the day so I decided to post this thing instead. now point of interest, too me at least, is that despite the fact that what they are obviously alluding to is a light saber dual the fencers in the photo are fencing foil not sabre. I know I'm a kill joy, nit picker, so sue me. it's not like I'm denying that it's a cool pic or something.