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Call it a archaic concept, but if one insults another whom I respect/admire and know personally, I can almost take it personally.

It was just a question of different styles. FM's style taught by Coach, who had a French fencing background, more languid, more flowing, versus the China style, which is more tense, crouch lower etc.

Thus when I was told at fencing training today "Your coach has taught you all the wrong things" in Chinese, I realised three things.

1. Lucky I didn't join fencing exco, otherwise I'll be stuck with this kinda comments for the next few years (cos the person who made the comment definitely will be here long term)

2. I now know why the common trend is people heasitating before attacking, people getting hit while doing null parries, and people having bad distance in general. If I can get scolded for moving back while doing a parry (reason being "you won't be close enough to do a riposte"), then I guess distancing IS going to be a general problem. After all, if you get hit while parrying, you aren't about to be doing any riposting at all.

3. There is no point in training all fencers in the same way like a Kaminoan clone facility. If a fencer has a good lunge, work on that. If a fencer has a fast parry riposte, build your moves around that. Its because of this very fact which Coach taught us that FM has been doing so well. If one cannot face up to the statistics, then too bad.

"Your coach has taught you all the wrong things"? For a club who's coach "has taught us all the wrong things", FM seems to be doing well lei. There has to be a reason why I've won four of five matches fenced against the people trained by the person who delievered the comment....

Now the question of whether I should stay or not remains. For now, shall just ignore all unconstructive comments.