> On May 4, 2017, at 4:39 PM, Richard Aiken <xxxxxx@gmail.com> wrote:
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> On Thu, May 4, 2017 at 4:42 PM, Bruce Johnson <xxxxxx@pharmacy.arizona.edu> wrote:
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> Even works with the really good ones, sometimes <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UKUEZIrDVT8>
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> Okay. But I'll have to take your word for it. Those strikes are so fast that I have to wait for the score to come up to see which one struck first. I think if the blades were real, they would have both killed each other several times over, before the video ends.
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It’s fast. They changed the roles (I’m thinking 2006-ish?) for saber that made it a much faster sport; still slower than foil or epee, though. A friend of mine once recounted a match he fought with a former US team member; he swears the bout started, the guy teleported to in front of him, scored on the back of his hand behind the bell and teleported back.  INcredibly fast.

Of course if these things were real they’d be more cautious.

For anyone who’s never seen it I highly HIGHLY reccomend Ridley Scott’s first film ‘The Duelists’, it’s like an catalog of late 18th/early 19th century swordfighting techniques, including sabers on horseback.

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Bruce Johnson
University of Arizona
College of Pharmacy
Information Technology Group

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