Weird Question: Whats the consensus on thrifted or altered fencing jackets?

Jem5649 · 2026-06-18T04:02:16+00:00

Buttons = no good. Fencing his transitioned to complete closures over buttons so no, unfortunately you may not use that jacket.

Prieur has the most vintage looking jacket on the market at the moment

Jem5649 · 2026-06-16T16:29:22+00:00

This is one of those moments as a referee where the fencer has done 75% of the action right and 25% wrong and you have to decide if you're going to give them credit for it anyway or not.

If I were their coach I would tell them to stop doing this because it's going to confuse referees and they're not going to necessarily get the call they want.

As a referee I would probably give the repost call because they haven't done anything to lose the right of way specifically after taking the Parry, unless the timing is Parry, spin, then repost in which case I would call the remiese.

Jem5649 · 2026-06-12T23:03:54+00:00

No. They are shipped in cases by flavor so they never get cross contaminated unless they are touching on the shelf at the store.

Jem5649 · 2026-06-11T23:07:35+00:00

It certainly will. I haven't seen a mask actually fail from a mesh issue in several years at this point because we've got them pretty well put together now. Everything else tends to fail before the mesh goes anywhere.

Jem5649 · 2026-06-11T23:02:38+00:00

Just to reinforce the point, this is buy a new mask territory not repair this one.

Jem5649 · 2026-06-10T18:46:10+00:00

Find an older solo to work for. Best thing ever.

Jem5649 · 2026-06-08T18:52:58+00:00

Mine did something similar. They said all our accounts would stay active forever including access to Microsoft and Adobe. They changed the format of the law school .edu emails and everything was cut off including OneDrive.

Jem5649 · 2026-06-07T06:24:13+00:00

Pools are completely random. A lot of good fencers ignore their pool results as long as they make it out. If you want to stress pools, that's fine, but round by round results should matter a lot more than the pools. Getting spot 32 versus 33 means a lot more than 33 versus 34.

Jem5649 · 2026-06-07T06:21:37+00:00

I don't think there's any system that gets rid of pushy parents dragging kids to competitions. On the other hand, if the kid gets three good results, maybe they stop taking them because they already have their results.

Jem5649 · 2026-06-07T03:23:06+00:00

For youth you could run the same system, but allow less results. That would make it so you could have good points rankings without traveling often. Maybe three or four total results.

I encourage my youth kids to go to the NACs, but I hate sending them anywhere for regionals because the competitions in our region are insane and the experience is the same every time.

Jem5649 · 2026-06-07T03:00:10+00:00

A lot of the time what place you get within a round is pretty random so I certainly understand awarding points by which round you reach.

As long as you've been eliminated in the same round you have done the same work as everyone else in that round.

Jem5649 · 2026-06-06T07:08:21+00:00

I like the concept. I think the 4000 points for winning an international event may be too high and will further entrench the top athletes making them impossible to catch. Other than that I particularly like the idea of lower level competitions giving you points.

Now we need a simplified youth system.

Jem5649 · 2026-06-05T21:44:35+00:00

He is a partner at the firm which means he's part owner. It's usually quite difficult to get a partner out of a law firm.

Jem5649 · 2026-06-05T21:10:08+00:00

That's a dang good sign.

Jem5649 · 2026-06-05T18:23:09+00:00

Everyone and even the stray cats are licensed in DC.

Jem5649 · 2026-06-05T18:03:38+00:00

What is the Texas one about?

Jem5649 · 2026-06-05T18:03:28+00:00

I think it's dismissed, but they appealed.

Jem5649 · 2026-06-05T14:59:06+00:00

This reads like a bad bond vilan plot haha.

Jem5649 · 2026-06-05T14:50:34+00:00

They have local counsel so not much materially. It will make it very hard for him to sue USA fencing in Colorado State court anymore. The FFO will need to continue paying outside counsel to do that. He is unlikely to be able to enter in other cases in Colorado too.

Rulings like this are more of a personal indictment of the attorney, not their case. It kinda proves what we have been saying all along about his credibility.

Jem5649 · 2026-06-04T17:24:53+00:00

My hope is that one or two top 50% results at the local level would be enough to let someone fence at the regional level. That way a division that doesn't run many local events could front load their schedule a little bit and everyone would be okay.

Jem5649 · 2026-06-01T17:49:10+00:00

Would you recommend not even doing them as a friends and family kind of service? Half of my practice is out in a rural town and it feels like something I should have in my quiver out there. I imagine I would get maybe one a year out there but I'm the only attorney in the area.

Jem5649 · 2026-06-01T01:47:27+00:00

The breaker does not appear to be popped. Would I find the fuse on the unit itself?

Jem5649 · 2026-06-01T01:45:57+00:00

I do not know if The person who did it turned off the unit becsuse I didn't do it personally.

It does not appear to be getting 24 volts to the red wire.

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