[Ansteorra-rapier] Proposed revision to rapier rules

Peter Wohlers donpieter at aol.com
Thu Oct 11 07:22:44 PDT 2012


Heresy...... Oh wait .... No I totally agree. Sorry not used to being on the same side of an argument. LOL 
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On Oct 11, 2012, at 9:16 AM, Andrew Heinrich <andrew.heinrich at gmail.com> wrote:

> 
> Greetings, 
> 
> Someone above in the thread commented that the use of the epee was "in decline". I feel I must disagree. The epee and the foil are not in decline, they are effective dead. The decline began at least a decade ago, and continued until you almost never see an epee come out of a bag at any major event in any kingdom in the known world to the best of my knowledge. When I started, roughly 15 years ago, the Middle Kingdom had already decided to ban the epee and go to heavy rapier exclusively. While that choice was sudden and highly controversial at the time, eventually it worked out, and I think it was a net benefit to the game there. We didn't lose people because we couldn't train them - we simply trained them with schleagers and eventually heavy rapier simulators. We had an epee authorization for Gulf Wars, but once the Epee was phased out of the melees there the need for that authorization essentially died. Almost no one was using them in tournaments at Gulf at that point, anyway. 
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> The epee and the foil are effectively dead. The rare bout fought with epee is simply the exception that proves the rule. 
> 
> - Mateo
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