#esgrima

"You know, at this tabletop game convention my friends dragged me to, there was fencing and a guy in a suit of armor. Do you think it could be your club?" - my coach after I told him the nature of my home club. My home club knew the people who had the suit of armor.

"Shut up."- fencer "I WILL card you for that i swear the match hasn't even started" - ref in unofficial tournament bout.

"He's not all that good, I mean I beat him." - Coach, who was an olympian, while we analyze bout footage of an internationally famous dude.

That same coach did not wear shoes, just socks, an odd guy

"Yeah, you'll be laughing when I score near perfect and send a postcard from the ivies" a teammate who was studying for the SAT during lunch break at camp, that was her response to our teasing

(Doing intros at camp and every kid had been fencing first at least 4 years) " oh yeah. Like . . . 1 and a half, 2 something? Never really kept track"-me. The kids were extremely mad when I beat them.

"there a ton of autism in this sport" - everyone at the lunch table *receives a side eye from the rubiks cubing coach we didn't know was behind us*

"I never thought I'd see you in a skirt" -my friend, "me neither, dude, me neither" commenting on the epee parafencing blanket I was wearing

"I like to ref" *gets enlisted to ref every single bout in the unofficial tournament after this was said*

"And archery was the closest I could get to fencing before I could fence!" - teammate

In a mock mini hot seat team event, I was in the group where my coach was fencing. Me and two other lefties went against him, a rightie. He asked for a team name and we said "the lefties" at the very end of the day he said to us "oh and for the name, three lefts make a right" AND WALLED AWAY bro was proud of that and honestly it was good.

"We have to throw it at the ground first or else he'll put a hole in the wall!" - referencing a game of wallball gone awry.

"Hey coach, sorry about your wall."-me "if you keep flecheing like that I don't care what you do to the wall kid keep going!!" - coach

"You are now the bout committee and will make things go faster. And open those boxes."

"It feels fitting that this is the place where I learn to correctly cuff my pants" - me, as all the gay elders nod at me while doing armory.

(I'm unrated) beats a B-rated grown man in pools 5-4. "Yay!" *promptly loses to him in second DE 5-15. "Oh nooo"

"I think this is just a plan to kidnap us. We're never going to fence." (The event ran hour-ish, maybe more, late cause of previous events. Held in a YMCA gym.)

*At home club* casually pokes wire back into metal tape on strip very haphazardly to ground it out again "See! Works every time!"

"CHEKOSLOVAKIA IS REAL. IT SAID ON THE PACKAGE!" - @fanatic-panic "NO." - everyone.

"You have such a picture ready face, like ur moms about to take ur picture" said from one friend to another

"Here, take these gummies, I don't want em anymore." - Person giving gummies "WHY are they WET?!" - person receiving gummies