Day 22

I won a 30 dollar Kinokunia voucher today for participating in a puzzel completion game in school.

I'm beginning to see how my gift of seeing how things fit is really beginning to fit.


I also met the only overseas trained Sabre fencer in NUS today.

The Sabre is the fastest of all the fencing weapons.

You need to be extremely agile and aggressive to win.

Our YOG Sabre fencer from Singapore was a giant who brutally beat the smaller opponent.


So it was to my surprise when I met our top sabre fencer.

He was sooooooooo nua.

He looked a little lost all day, and spoke so slowly and in such a laid back and relaxed way. When one of the fastest fencers of a different weapon took him on to show us how the weapon is used in a bout, he didn't even lift his blade up when the fight began, but just kept it relaxed at his side. The other fencer had his blade up and was practically on his toes on guard.

This was the interesting part. Nua dude flicked his fingers and the fight was over.

"What just happened?" we asked in confusion.

He took a minute to explain in his laid back way what had happened during the bout that took 2 seconds to complete.

"He advanced first, and had priority as his arm started moving forward first, but I countered with a block and thus won the priority and slashed his mask..."

We asked him to show it to us again as we didn't notice any of these things, but we still had no idea what was going on because it was happening so fast that we were not catching it. But what I do know, nua man was trashing the other dude.

Maybe he's not nua. Maybe he's just moving too fast for the eye to see.


Question. Should I take up the Foil or the Sabre as my weapon?

The top 2 Foil fencers in Singapore are in NUS- one's the coach and one's the captain. So I'll be trained by the best, but I would probably never make the competition team.

NUS doesn't really have any Sabre fencers, but they want to start a team. So I'll probably be in the competition team if I take up this weapon, but I won't be trained well.

How?