Decidedly not what I was promised!

[graculus]

Anyway, today was competition day and I came last.

At the time it was quite frustrating to see how much better than me the other folks were, and it was definitely that, embarrassingly so at times, though I guess I should have realised something was up when people arriving for the 'nice little competition' I was promised started putting on breeches with the fencing world's equivalent of go-faster stripes and stuff with GBR on the back!

Now I'm home, I can see that three of the people I fenced were in the UK top 20 for that weapon and their age-group - one of them is the no 1 in the country at the moment. Unfortunately, she wasn't the one who handed me my arse in the elimination fight, but that's a minor detail in the greater scheme of things.

Anyway, I now think it's quite funny - I definitely hope I do better when I fight my first epee competition in a couple of months.

Comments

[onyxlynx]

( know very little about fencing (it's probably what I should have taken up instead of karate), but the bit about the fencing world's equivalent of go-faster stripes totally cracked me up.

This is why one practices!

[graculus]

I just wish the ability gap between me and even the next person above me hadn't been quite so apparent, so it's going to be a long time (if ever!) before I do a foil competition again based on that performance.

[xochiquetzl]

You'll do better next time!

And fencing the woman who's number one in the country is kind of awesome.

[graculus]

I'll do better with a different weapon, I think/hope. We'll find out when that competition rolls around, I guess?

Number one teenager, not number one overall, but still much better than I am ever likely to be!