I'm probably a skewed audience, as my experience with fencing is primarily classical fencing and historical swordsmanship--i.e., duelling. And songwind's point about the neutering armor is well taken, but the concept of fencing is that it's for real, no armor, on the terrain.
That thing Sparrow does to Turner's sword? Yeah. Fencing.
Plus, I'm a little jaded about archery since compound bows kind of take all of the romanticism out of it...and archery hunting is really big in PA, so big that the Game Commission actually unfairly favors archery hunters in how long they have to hunt, although they allow small game hunting at the same time archers can deer hunt. This alone might not be a problem except that archery hunters are sitting in treestands, covered head to toe in camoflage, while triggerhappy squirrel hunters often shoot at noises...in trees. "I thought he was a squirrel" is actually defensible here.
I picked fencing, because, to me, it's just sexier, what with the movement and the sharp pointy swords and the thrusting and such. But if you're talking like, sport fencing, with the padding and the face masks and the two puffy figures of indeterminate gender? Then I'd go with archery...
Phallic symbolism aside, I picked fencing because it's up close and personal, a direct pas de deux between two specific people who make a lot of eye contact. Whereas archery is rather removed -- it's a one way relationship between archer and target.
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Although fencing is sexy too.
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Fencing, on the other hand is 1) mostly too fast to see and 2) sport fencing covers the body in bulky neutering armor.
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Naked bar-top fencing, huh? Clearly I go to the wrong parties.
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When I grow up, I want to be
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*makes notes*
*examines technique*
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_G5MBf2RolQ&feature=PlayList&p=E7441879FEA26242&playnext=1&playnext_from=PL&index=13
That thing Sparrow does to Turner's sword? Yeah. Fencing.
Plus, I'm a little jaded about archery since compound bows kind of take all of the romanticism out of it...and archery hunting is really big in PA, so big that the Game Commission actually unfairly favors archery hunters in how long they have to hunt, although they allow small game hunting at the same time archers can deer hunt. This alone might not be a problem except that archery hunters are sitting in treestands, covered head to toe in camoflage, while triggerhappy squirrel hunters often shoot at noises...in trees. "I thought he was a squirrel" is actually defensible here.
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Shouldn't that be quuiver-ing? *runs away cackling*
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Pardon me while I go hide now....XD
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