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Well in the time since I posted here last year, I've finally managed to get a couple of people interested in this. They've each gotten their own a waster and we've been practicing with a pell and some very basic drills (more or less moving between guards, foot work, and proper parrying). But since n...

There isn't a reason, especially with electric. These blades are a bit more flexy than dry fencing blades since they're electric, but those epee blades are absolutely horrible. The blades foil aren't quite as bad, but I wouldn't want to use them. What level was this competition anyway? The fencer be...

Thanks for the replies so far. I've got one more question on things like wasters, how do you determine what length is appropirate?

Thanks for your quick reply Derek.

I've seen a number of types of wasters for sale, which type would you recommend? Where can I find information on building a pell?

Hello, I've just recently stumbled across ARMA and have found it to have a very interesting premiss and something I would like to become involved in, and have gotten a number of others in my university fencing group interested in ARMA as well. But, there's just one problem: I have no idea where to b...