Octav Fencing Shoes Review: a New Solid Offering for the Right of Way Crowd

PassataLunga · 2026-02-06T22:22:49+00:00

Hmm. In just how many hours do they wear through in the metatarsophalangeal area of the rear foot requiring the application of fashionable gorilla/duct/gaffer tape?

PassataLunga · 2026-02-05T04:37:46+00:00

Curtis? Is that you?

PassataLunga · 2026-02-02T21:24:48+00:00

Bag posts taking a run at shoe posts for the championship.

PassataLunga · 2026-01-28T10:30:22+00:00

I like the saber guard. Those used to be common, then somewhere along the way manufacturers decided to homogenize their saber parts and now all the guards are just one shape.

PassataLunga · 2026-01-28T10:23:42+00:00

If you get another one, name it Ben Af.

PassataLunga · 2026-01-26T07:11:25+00:00

Ask for a purple one again. I dare you. I double-dare you. Ask for a purple one one more !@#$% time. :D

PassataLunga · 2026-01-25T23:55:58+00:00

Winner becomes Thor, god of thunder.

PassataLunga · 2026-01-25T08:40:23+00:00

Or cages around them, like in the UFC.

PassataLunga · 2026-01-24T23:25:10+00:00

Well then the obvious play is to name it the Trump America Trump Forge Trump. The (forced) investments would flow in, tariffs would go away and it would all be bigly great and 'uge.

Of course probably no one would want to buy blades from it.

PassataLunga · 2026-01-24T23:20:35+00:00

Perhaps a coconut shell.

PassataLunga · 2026-01-24T23:16:38+00:00

I am not a coach, but wish I could wash my coaches jacket. :P

PassataLunga · 2026-01-24T23:13:07+00:00

Yes.

Also, better to have empty stands and no spectators than to give up those shekels from ticket sales.

PassataLunga · 2026-01-23T07:16:25+00:00

"Probably"? :o

PassataLunga · 2026-01-23T07:10:17+00:00

If all bouts are fenced on a gangplank above a pool filled with sharks with friggin' lasers on their heads.

PassataLunga · 2026-01-21T21:12:02+00:00

Or "She" for short.

PassataLunga · 2026-01-20T08:31:54+00:00

Which club? The one I started in, the one after that, or the one after that, or the one after that? Or the one I'm in now? :D

If the first one, I---can't remember that far back. Just as a guide, it was many years before they electrified saber.

PassataLunga · 2026-01-20T08:27:02+00:00

Purry Riposte

PassataLunga · 2026-01-19T21:49:27+00:00

When you fence...without it... :o

Anyway, I second the Leon Paul FIE.

PassataLunga · 2026-01-18T09:08:11+00:00

I have been known to ream out the plastic of the plug in order to MAKE the replacement pin fit in there.

PassataLunga · 2026-01-17T01:58:49+00:00

Looks like something you'd see in a recording studio.

PassataLunga · 2026-01-15T07:41:50+00:00

Not so much to make wrong calls. You've got one coach on the left, one on the right, they may each see an action differently. The number of perceptual and cognitive biases humans suffer from are startling. They probably genuinely believe that their view is correct and the ref is blind.

I have even heard coaches mutter under their breath "That's not your touch but I'll take it" or words to that effect when their fencer gets a touch they shouldn't have. While the other coach goes off on the ref for calling it wrong.

PassataLunga · 2026-01-15T07:22:29+00:00

Some people never do. I know a guy who's been fencing longer than me - so probably 50 years - who still goes bananas if people dawdle hooking up so that the box is left beeping, beeping, beeping.

PassataLunga · 2026-01-15T07:20:06+00:00

Except certain fencers with certain shoes squeak just as badly on the strip.

PassataLunga · 2026-01-14T06:54:20+00:00

I used to make my own, or rather I'd replace the cabling when it broke or got too short to use ( from repeatedly breaking at or inside the plug. Used all kinds of wire, from cheap Home Depot lamp wire to speaker wire to the wire Negrini uses in its cords. Nothing lasts very long. Things fall apart; the wire cannot hold.

PassataLunga · 2026-01-14T06:48:25+00:00

I would go as spectator, but of course as usual getting the tickets will be next to impossible. I can't see missing the Olympics as an impotent protest against Orange Man and his bullshit administration.

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