Watching BBC Four and the English National Ballet are doing Romeo & Juliet. One of the guys has just had a foil straight though the palm of his hand. Ow ow ow ow...
Have they never heard of the little plastic buttons that go on the end??????
Rachel
ballet - go hard or go home
true - another one sprained a wrist now...
/noob
What's a foil?
Fencing type sword.
Fencing type sword.
Ahh. Cheers.
double-type post.
Ok, I heard you the first time 😉
Sorry Jamie - I wrote foil but actually I think it was an épée...
Rachel
Sorry Jamie - I wrote foil but actually I think it was an épée...Rachel
Don't worry, I would have had to ask what that was as well.
I am such a philistine.
Runs off to find out if Rachel just made up the word épée ( with acutes and everything ) ...
No.
The "acutes" are just me showing off that I finally remembered how to do type them. I used to teach fencing many years ago so I knew how to spell it...
Rachel
ballet - go hard or go home
Unless it's a children's ballet. Then you would most likely end up with Gary in the nonce wing.
I dated someone who did Renaissance fencing - that was proper mental big FO swords and major slashing did seem to happen fairly often.