When I went to the Selangor Open earlier this year (2 weeks before SPOTS, I remember), I had the dubious pleasure of fencing the coach from NUS. Come to think of it, I'm the only one who has fenced against him competitively in an individual event so far that I'm aware of.

There I was on the strip facing this giant who seemed to be twice my size. On the "allez", he took a ginormous step forward to get priority and that, combined with an arm extension, left his point almost at my chest. I took two controlled steps back, which turned into four quicker ones as he came on like a battering ram. Out flashed the oncoming foil. I did one quarte, but he disengaged and did the flick I was expecting and which I picked off with a prime. Or I wouldn't say picked off. Such was the force of the flick (or should I say, sabre stroke) that my wrist was nearly turned into my forearm. There was no way I could have stopped the follow up attack which hit fairly on my right lower abdomen.

Just like that. One clash of steel on steel, one whirlwind of motion, one flash of the blades and there was one light on the scoreboard. Time elapsed... erm.... 6 seconds?

In retrospect, COFM was like that. Studied one whole round and stuff which I didn't expect all that much comes out hahah...Ah heck. Most exams are anyway

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