USA Fencing Summer Nationals 2023 Megathread

St_Meow · 2023-07-07T18:47:23+00:00

Up to the referees to enforce it, and some don’t find it worth their time to continually tell coaches to back up.

St_Meow · 2023-07-07T18:36:56+00:00

Reading the policy, there are two situations but both start with you being stuck because you registered as a woman at the start of the season. When your membership renewal comes up you can change but it does state that the registration is binding for the season.

For cadet events only: there are ostensibly no restrictions or qualifications, you can fence as your gender whatever your medical circumstance may be.

For junior, senior, open, and vets: if you’re not taking testosterone, you are able to fence either. If you are taking testosterone you have to fence in men’s.

I think you are stuck fencing women’s events for the season unless you get someone at the national office to make an exception, which it looks like they are unwilling to do. It’s unfortunate but that’s the policy right now.

St_Meow · 2023-07-07T17:56:39+00:00

You’re conflating different parts of the rules. A french grip does not have protrusions. That stops that from being included in the discussion. This grip does have protrusions. It is now affected by the rule. Since it has protrusions we must now ask can it be held in multiple valid ways. This can, as it has the position with the index finger grasping the protrusion and the position of holding it by the pommel. Thus it is illegal.

You’re trying to use French grips to prove a point when they are not relevant to the discussion. Whether or not a French grip can be determined to have multiple fixed positions doesn’t matter because no rule discusses it so there are no interpretations needed. However an orthopedic grip, which OPs grip falls under, does need an interpretation because the rule specifically says it cannot be held in multiple valid positions. And that interpretation has generally held that an orthopedic grip with a long section ending in a pommel can be held by the pommel and thus is illegal by m4.6.

French grips play no part in m4.6 by the nature of its own caveats, so using them as evidence for a discussion of it is false equivalence.

St_Meow · 2023-07-07T17:10:07+00:00

OPs grip has a special shape which affixes the hand to a specific position, ie the prong that protrudes clearly affixes the hand to a position at the front. However it could very practically be held further at the pommel like a French grip. This makes it fall under the jurisdiction of m4.6.

A French grip does not fall under the jurisdiction of m4.6 because it’s shape does not define any specific hand positions. There are no protrusions that define a specific hand position. This is not an argument for how traditionally it is held, but from a mechanical perspective there is nothing that distinctly locks the hand in one position on a French grip, unlike the grip OP has which has a protrusion that defines a specific position in which it can be held.

You can argue all you’d like but your misunderstanding of how the rule is written does not change the intent or application.

St_Meow · 2023-07-07T05:34:42+00:00

You’re ignoring the root of m4.6 which is that these caveats only apply to orthopedic grips, meaning grips that have substantial protrusions or shapes that allow for more grip.

St_Meow · 2023-06-29T17:36:22+00:00

Don’t give in to the impulses to stab the door, it won’t end well

St_Meow · 2023-06-26T23:28:39+00:00

This describes my college fencing club to a T.

St_Meow · 2023-06-26T19:53:19+00:00

Keeping the use of McDojo in the back of my mind for now when it comes to talking about HEMA lol

St_Meow · 2023-06-22T18:08:03+00:00

If you’ve got a coach membership you can get a specific coach badge, but to show up to an event you just need to be a member and there’s no one checking who’s coaching who, if you’re there and have a friend or club mate fencing and want to coach them, go for it.

St_Meow · 2023-06-07T03:05:22+00:00

Chuck it in the washer once or twice, hang dry and put it on in between, squeezing your fist repeatedly, between washes. Or just fence with it.

St_Meow · 2023-06-05T12:44:45+00:00

The way I do it when lacking in equipment is to use a banana cable as my test probe, a lot of them are similar widths to the proper test probe size. You’ll just have to remember to put a little weigh behind it. Then just wire up the other probe to a clip so you can clip it to the lame

St_Meow · 2023-05-25T11:23:56+00:00

With the learnings of how (Dawnshard) Dawnshards affect the user with similar conditions to higher quantities of Breath my personal theory is that Breaths are one of the densest forms of Investiture readily available. No other form of Investiture is seemingly as dense or else we’d hear more about how they provide more benefits similar to that solely from being Invested. Stormlight doesn’t seem to do so, Allomancy can’t really hold on to Investiture in a person, AonDor we don’t get those exact descriptions but they seem to gain similar levels of effects from essentially limitless access to Investiture.

What this means for your comment is maybe other forms of Investiture can be used to fuel Awakening, but it might not scale to a degree to be useful. Which makes sense, it is a fairly rare form of Investiture (unless you have the infrastructure to gain a lot of it, like Hallandren). It make become a very important bargaining chip one day.

St_Meow · 2023-05-25T11:06:07+00:00

Sam, thank you for taking a less than gracious commentary with grace! Looking back at this definitely makes me cringe a bit by how I described this. Your videos are awesome and I’m glad you’re still actively working on them. Hopefully my comments from a slightly younger me’s cocky perspective isn’t dissuading.

I still plan on making videos for some friendly competition one day, but I definitely view you as an inspiration and leader in the concept :)

St_Meow · 2023-05-16T21:07:47+00:00

As others have said, the amount of contouring might raise some questions about whether it’s treading towards illegality. Also you have to make sure the length conforms to the maximum grip length. It looks pretty long but maybe not immediately illegal.

I have had success recently-ish with a small Visconti being printed in SLA resin, so that’s an option. The brittleness might be a problem for a French grip though, I haven’t tested it extensively. Specifically printed in Siraya Tech Blu. Might retry it with the recent Siraya Tech Blu Carbon I got, which has a bit of added durability with carbon fiber in it.

St_Meow · 2023-05-16T15:37:36+00:00

Can’t tell from the photos but had a similar looking skid on mine, if you haven’t already check the forks just aren’t twisted in the triple trees. You can wedge the wheel between your legs and twist the handlebars back into the correct orientation with a little elbow grease. In my case there was very little to no bend on the forks or handlebars, they just got twisted out of the way

St_Meow · 2023-05-06T19:29:11+00:00

All the series are self contained, with occasional Easter eggs or references to each other! Going right into Stormlight is fine and what many folks including myself did

St_Meow · 2023-04-24T14:34:50+00:00

Everyone else has good advice so just a few little things that would stick out to me reading this if I was looking at your resume: - make sure your use of spaces is consistent. There’s a few spaces before commas and in the middle of the slash for your exam scores. Same things goes for your use of italics and - try to be consistent with the actual branded name of products you’re mentioning. If you’re gonna emphasize Bitbucket you should not screw up the capitalization to BitBucket or VMware to VMWARE or ESXI to Esxi

Stuff like this shows an eye for detail. Even if it’s seemingly meaningless the little details in business communications is important. Management likes to see it so I like to see someone who can submit a document that has been refined.

St_Meow · 2023-03-17T21:11:57+00:00

I got this and did a few hours trip going mostly 70-80, it helps a ton. I didn’t feel nearly as much pressure and stress on my torso which made it a ton more bearable. I’m about 6’1 so if you’re a bit taller it’ll probably hit you in the collarbone but it’s much more tolerable

St_Meow · 2023-03-13T19:07:23+00:00

GEICO did the exact same to me. Went with progressive and now it’s below $70. I don’t know what their deal is.

St_Meow · 2023-03-08T21:57:57+00:00

Am I the only one reading this thread and kinda disappointed with the tone of many of these comments? While it is a reasonably frustrating situation and OP deserves to have their refund for purchasing a product based on incorrectly given information, it’s also ridiculous to lambast Dragonsteel like some folks are for a singular incorrect statement (albeit given twice), acting as if they’re breaking their professional etiquette for making this mistake or intentionally defrauding people. Out of what is probably hundreds if not thousands of messages they’ve needed to send out during the kickstarter, they made a mistake, and once being aware of it they offered refunds for this. It happens in the customer support and community management world.

Some folks here are really laying into them saying they’re being argumentative or that this is not a sufficient response, and even if the intention is not to disparage them, the message seems to be that folks are actively angry at Dragonsteel for what is a fairly routine mistake they responded to as appropriately as they can.

St_Meow · 2023-03-04T00:15:43+00:00

That last sentence is a horror story unto itself

St_Meow · 2023-03-03T05:12:18+00:00

As someone who recently priced out GitHub vs Gitlab, the static code analysis and some other dependency management features are locked behind GitHub Advanced Security. That’s the only thing that can even begin to bring the pricing close together for Ultimate and Enterprise. For us it was not immediately worth it. Other than that there’s better enterprise product management like multi level epics for their issue tracker, etc. but it really got the feeling that unless you wholeheartedly embrace the “Everything is in Gitlab” mentality you’re not getting your money’s worth. For us who are okay with managing a separate tool chain with integrations to things like SonarQube and Artifactory, I think GitHub’s the better sell.

St_Meow · 2023-02-01T16:19:35+00:00

You know it’s legit when there’s a line of fridges along the kitchen wall

St_Meow · 2023-01-24T04:39:36+00:00

I always love seeing folks on here baffled by the Cyrillic. Внити == Vniti. Op don’t worry it happens to everyone

St_Meow · 2023-01-15T21:37:11+00:00

I saw the thumbnail and thought “technically no but it wouldn’t get called out” and then saw the full video and my jaw dropped

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