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FM Open for foil didn't go too well, firstly cos it was on an early cold rainy morning, so I was quite sleepy. Also cos foil is my weaker weapon in terms of time spent on it.

And also because FM's computer decided to be funny. Where one pool had all the SJI and ACSI boys, my pool had

Shaun Paul Lopez
Matt Lopez
Brenda
Joo Chyao

and myself, plus two other ACSI boys (one being a leftie), giving us more than a total of nearly 20 years combined experience (the other pool had about 8).

Turns out that, with the exception of Brenda, we all killed each other. SP lost to Matt, who lost to me, who lost to SP. I got close quartered three times pah.

There's this split second in time, when you're half a meter from your opponent, your blade is spinning around your back and you can literally hear it whistling through the air, your fingers barely on the grip and you know for sure, your close quarter is going to hit.

Until Shaun Paul kinda thrust out his backside, and parried my blade with his behind before replying witha riposte of his own. Both of us saw his red light come on before he was dancing away in delight and I was yelling insulting things about the height of his rear end.

Anyway, through a fouled up combination of round robins, I ended up fencing Joo Chyao in the first round and lost 15-8. Was launching very slowly from my hidden blade attacks.

Up next is RJ invites. Angie just came over to KE7 to train a while before lunch. There's free fencing here from Mon to Wed, not sure if I'm going, and I REALLY hope the weather clears up cos I REALLY want to play handball again =)

Well we'll see how it goes. Till then, auf wiedersehen