Fencing

 

I found a groupon for fencing and it was walking distance from my work at Gryphon Fencing Club. The groupon offered 4 classes session for $25 great deal! Thought I decided to give it a try and got my coworker psyched as well cos I am petty good at convincing.. Yes, it's an olympic sport and NO, its not as easy as it seems!  They have professionals sometime drop by and train their.

Gryphon Fencing Studio

 

5 point game and 3 min round

There are three different types of fencing sword epee, foil and sabre. Epee basically first blood, meaning whole body is a target. Epee is more defensive game and does not have a right of way. Then, Foil basically fight to death or kill shots only; the target area reduces to only torso therefore, no arms, leg and head. Thus,  foil is more tacticle and foil has right of way meaning if i attack you have to perie before attacking me .. Finally we have saber which is more slashing, aggressive, and all offence; and target is above torso including arms and head. Saber has right of way also. We decided to give all three class

 

Showing you all my epee skills.. beating a girl who is fencing for about 3 months in my first class!

The sword hits the floor so didnt count as a point.

Foil is more tacticle and its very fast so time to time people scream to get point in their favor, like all the soccer players asking for a red card! When I scream the ref kinda got confuse and gave me the point!

Saber is my favorite because I am aggressive and I like to attack first basically Alpha Male! I am beating my coworker 5-1!

 

Its great gift for birthday or get togethers with friends! Also its a great cardio!

Check out the website: http://gryphonfencing.com/

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