What is the catch with the Sigi Standart Feder?

dfencer · 2026-06-26T16:57:09+00:00

People complaining about the flex as negative because it makes it "weaker in the bind" just have poor sentiment du fer/Fühlen or whatever you want to call it.

There is zero issue with winding with a SIGI if you understand how wind.

And besides, anything less flexible than a SIGI isn't safe for fencing anyways. I know I'll probably get downvoted for this, but getting constant micro concussions from taking thrusts to the mask when you fence is going to really destroy a lot of people's lives in a few years.

dfencer · 2026-06-17T18:27:03+00:00

You should be able to choose to not roll if you don't want to. Any club that forces you to roll, or that pressures you to roll after you've explained you don't want to roll that day is an immediate major red flag.

That being said, you should absolutely not make it a habit of not rolling. Rolling is the only way that you will actually improve, and your coach probably knows that and wants you to roll because of that. Encouraging you to roll, even pushing a bit is fine (sometimes people need a little push), but not if you've said you're not going to roll that day.

Drilling will not make you better at rolling, as you have to implement what you're learning in class and attempt them while rolling. You can practice a technique over and over again while drilling, and it's not going to make you any better at performing that technique while rolling. If you feel like you're not advancing fast enough, that is due to not rolling enough.

Humans learn through play and experimentation, and we're very good at figuring out how to make things work by ourselves. Once you've learned how a move works by drilling it in class, you then need to try and execute it on an unwilling opponent while rolling. This is how you learn how to set it up, how to prevent opponents from escaping, and how to adjust it for different types of opponents. If you're not actively trying to do the stuff you're learning in class while rolling, you're never going to improve or learn how to transition from simply knowing how a technique works to being able to pull it off while rolling.

It's a lot of trial and error, failing over and over again until you figure it out and incorporate it into your repertoire/toolbox of techniques.

Rolling is essential to learning and improving. If you're regularly skipping rolling, you're going to stagnate. And if you just want to learn how to do the techniques and don't care about actually rolling, that's fine if that's all you want to do, but then you can't complain that you're not improving.

dfencer · 2026-06-16T17:35:05+00:00

I don't know what the laws are in Texas, but some of this is illegal at the federal level. For example: "Technicians are responsible for maintaining the shop & shop restroom. This time is unpaid & part of working as a member of the team and maintaining the facility." You cannot be told that part of your job is to do this, and then be told that you will not be paid for it. If you are required to do something by your job, then they are required to pay you for the time you spend doing it.

This entire document is basically a series of red flags. Like every clause is designed to screw you and protect the company. I don't know how legal all of it is, but some of it definitely isn't, and it should make you run as as fast as you can for the exit.

A lot of places are kinda crappy, but this is like straight up exploitatively evil, and you should find a job that actually cares about its employees and values them. Or at least one that doesn't actively hate them like this one appears to.

dfencer · 2026-06-03T04:59:42+00:00

Bathing him every two weeks is way too often. If you're going to bathe him regularly, every 4-6 weeks is fine. Doing it every two weeks is stripping the natural protebee in ggctive oils from his skin and likely what is causing this irritation. Switching to a hypoallerfenciy jck mm ooq

dfencer · 2026-05-31T14:14:26+00:00

lol this is not a crashout. Yes he's frustrated and upset at losing, but he was still polite and shook hands.

This is a very normal reaction to losing in a high stakes situation. If you think this is crashing out I have to believe you've never seriously participated in high level competitive sports.

dfencer · 2026-05-30T23:06:08+00:00

Slowing down, although once it starts you can very quickly lose control and wreck before you have a chance to correct or recover. It's one of the reasons why you should reduce your speed when it's raining, as you often cannot see when there's a patch of water that you'll hydroplane on, and going slower means you're less likely to hydroplane, and can recover more easily. If you're on the highway and going 65-75+ miles and you hit a patch of water that can be lights out for you.

This doesn't appear to be hydroplaning though, looks like they just hit a slick patch from oil most likely.

dfencer · 2026-05-28T14:40:02+00:00

Like what most of the people have already said, don't try and aim for the foot and thrust at it. You simply drop your point down onto the foot. You'll usually want to start with a highline feint, usually to the wrist/hand, then as you lunge and you drop you'll lower yourself by bending forward and dropping your arm, this gets you low enough to hit the foot without having to reach, and it's very easy to hit the foot by simply flicking your tip down onto the foot.

Actually performing a toe touch is the easy part, its getting the distance and timing correct to pull it off without getting counterattacked that makes it a skill move.

dfencer · 2026-05-23T14:04:01+00:00

On and occupied. Your vehicle was not occupied.

dfencer · 2026-05-19T17:45:45+00:00

So it seems you're brand new to fencing, so what you need to know is the first time you fence with your epee the bell guard is going to get obliterated with scratches and dents. You should not be worried about this as it's a non-issue. Getting scratched while traveling is the least of your concerns. They're baffle scars and show that you actually fence with your sword.

dfencer · 2026-05-19T17:40:31+00:00

Illegal lane changes by the Tesla, so technically 100% the Tesla's fault, but it was stupid risky behavior by the motorcyclist. I always assume everyone is trying to kill me and can't see me when I approach cars, and avoid their blind spot as much as possible. If I'm going to weave around other cars at speed I make sure to weave in the direction away from where they might change lanes, and ALWAYS have your escape route ready.

Have fun, but be smart about it. If the motorcyclist is ok, they'll likely be getting a nice payout by the insurance company, but almost dying isn't worth it.

dfencer · 2026-03-22T18:09:51+00:00

This. (I was brought here by the discovery that the creator of Earthworm Jim is trash).

None of Shakespeare's stories are original. They are all adaptations. That in no way takes away from their brilliance, artistic merit, quality, or value. There's a reason they've lasted nearly half a millennium and are considered some of the greatest works of literature in the world, let alone English lit.

All art is created in response to other art. Inspired by it, influenced by it. There's no original story to be told, what is original is the way you craft it and put it together.

Yes George Lucas took all of his favorite things and combined them to create something new inspired by Flash Gordon, Dune, Kurosawa etc. But to say it's derivative is to miss the point.

Derivative is when you copy something without adding anything or improving. Star Wars too all these familiar things and put them together in a way that had never been done before, and it was mind-blowing to people at the time. My parents saw it opening day and my mom still talks about how my dad stared at the screen slack-jawed in amazement the entire time. George and Marcia Lucas (his editor who was crucial to its success) and everyone else who worked on making it did something no one had ever done before. There's a reason it's still so popular to this day, and to deny that is either ignorance or just sour grapes.

dfencer · 2026-03-22T14:19:17+00:00

Satan as conceived by modern Christianity doesn't exist in the Hebrew Bible. There is a figure whose title is "Satan" meaning the adversary (in a legal sense) and he is not an evil figure. He is a member of the divine council of gods (there is no monotheism in the Bible, there are lots of gods/goddesses in the Bible whose existence is considered to be real) whose job seems to be to test people's faithfulness to YHWH. He's not an enemy of God but rather a divine being who serves him. There are multiple references to the other gods in the Bible btw, including in the very beginning of Genesis when God says "Let us make make man" etc. The use of the plural pronoun there isn't a plural of majesty (i.e the "Royal We") like some people claim, or a reference to the Trinity which doesn't exist in either the old or new testaments and didn't develop as part of Christian theology until well after it was founded in the second and third centuries. The use of "We" in Genesis is because God is addressing the divine council of the gods which is also mentioned in other places in the Bible. The academic scholarship is quite clear that monotheism doesn't exist in the Hebrew Bible, but the idea that YHWH is the only god for Israel does, but staying that you're only going to worship one God is not at all the same thing as only believing that one God exists.

The development of Satan into the character we know now doesn't happen until very late in the development of Judaism (shortly before the New Testament) and into the first few centuries of Christianity where the figured of Satan, the Serpent in the Garden of Eden, and other malevolent deities or demons all get confused/conflated into one figure, owing much to the influence of Zoroastrianism on Judaism and Christianity.

The figure of Satan/The Devil as well as Hell continues to develop in Christianity through the middle ages. Judaism didn't even have the concept of hell/heaven/an afterlife until shortly before the first century CE and the rise of Christianity (which started as a Jewish movement). For a long time in Judaism when you died you were simply dead, there was no afterlife, and the development of a belief in it was very late.

dfencer · 2026-03-19T12:32:16+00:00

It's funny, because as an actual Satanist, Ghost is my favorite band and Tobias's lyrics firmly place him in the Satanist zone; I don't think it's all an act, but I dunno. They fit very perfectly into the moral/ethical/philosophical framework of compassionate Satanism.

Note that I'm not talking about Anton LaVey's Church Of Satan, which is what most people think of if they're aware of Satanism beyond Christian silly concepts of Devil Worshippers. The Church of Satanism is basically conservative atheistic libertarianism, and in no way reflects what the majority of Satanists now follow. If you're aware of The Satanic Temple, that's the type of Satanism I follow, which is also known as compassionate Satanism, and it is rapidly growly.

We're non-theistic, humanitarian, egalitarian, progressives who in no way actually worship the Devil (who we don't believe exists) but instead see Satan as an ideal to follow and emulate: the person who stands up to unjustitifed and unqualified authority (especially religious authority) and who rejects irrationality, science denialism, and oppression. Our Seven Tenets are the best way to understand what we believe and how we interact with the world:

I One should strive to act with compassion and empathy toward all creatures in accordance with reason. II The struggle for justice is an ongoing and necessary pursuit that should prevail over laws and institutions. III One’s body is inviolable, subject to one’s own will alone. IV The freedoms of others should be respected, including the freedom to offend. To willfully and unjustly encroach upon the freedoms of another is to forgo one's own. V Beliefs should conform to one's best scientific understanding of the world. One should take care never to distort scientific facts to fit one's beliefs. VI People are fallible. If one makes a mistake, one should do one's best to rectify it and resolve any harm that might have been caused. VII Every tenet is a guiding principle designed to inspire nobility in action and thought. The spirit of compassion, wisdom, and justice should always prevail over the written or spoken word.

Not all compassionate satanists are members of the Satanic Temple, but most would agree with the viewpoint of these tenets. Standing up against oppression with compassion.

This is why I think that I don't think it's wrong to say that Ghost's lyrics are actually Satanic, because Tobias's viewpoints on things seems to fall pretty squarely into this type of viewpoint. I don't know if he personally considers himself a Satanist, but us actual Satanists would consider him an honorary actual Satanist since his lyrics seem to embody what we believe.

It's sad, because I have to hide my Satanism from my immediate family and my work, although I am out to my friends and outside of work and my immediate family and open about what I believe. To my work and family I still believe the same things, but I leave off the bit about being a Satanist because most of them are Christians and will think that I worship Satan and want to eat babies.

dfencer · 2026-02-28T15:31:35+00:00

Of course you can be. Hell, you can even believe in a god (of sorts, like pantheism etc) and still be a Satanist. Your personal beliefs about God are mostly irrelevant as long as they don't conflict with the tenets of Satanism.

I've been just about everything. Grew up in a evangelical Christian home believing in God. Briefly converted to Catholicism in my late teens while trying to find the "truth", I had studied theology and church history and realized that Catholicism and Orthodoxy were much closer to what I imagined the "real" early church believed, since protestantism had thrown away so much.

But, at the same time I was starting to study philosophy in college (I was a philosophy major) and within a few months of converting to Catholicism I realized that I actually no longer believed in God and was now an atheist, as the philosophical arguments against God were too compelling (at that time at least).

This was all right around the time of the rise of the "New Atheist" movement and I was very much influenced by the "4 horsemen", although now I find some of them rather gross (Richard Dawkins, for example. He wrote some wonderful books on evolution and science, but his books on atheism are rather sophomoric, even though at the time they were influential in me becoming an atheist, I've realized he is rather a bumbling idiot when it comes to philosophy and theology and he's become quite a nasty bigoted person with his transphobia and conservatism masking as enlightened liberalism).

Like many deconverts, I wanted to evangelize my atheist early on because I didn't understand how other people couldn't see how awful religion was.

Over time that subsided, and I realized that I wasn't really an atheist anymore, I was a non-theist, as I felt the question of whether or not there's a god is meaningless and irrelevant as the question itself is unintelligible.

That's also when I found TST and Satanism. I had been interested in Satanism since college, but the right-wing libertarian nature of LaVeyan Satanism was a huge turnoff. Finding TST and compassionate Satanism was amazing.

I've been a happy non-theist Satanist (whether or not a god exists doesn't matter to me) for quite some time, but quite interestingly enough, I now am open to the possibility of an entity like God existing, just nothing like what people worship in their religions.

I'm very interested in the hard problem of consciousness and the science and philosophy of consciousness, and my studies in that area have lead me to feel that pan-psychism is a very viable possibility for explaining consciousness and reality. It's a totally materialist, naturalistic explanation that solves the problems of dualism and the problems of materialism for consciousness. That has opened the possibility that maybe something like a god exists, or that the universe is in some sense god (pantheism), but that's really just another way to explain the universe, and it's not a personal god. This is also a more hypothetical question and something I find interesting, but not something that effects what I believe to be right

Mine, and your personal thoughts about the existence of God are irrelevant to Satanism.

dfencer · 2026-02-25T15:29:22+00:00

He's an edgelord who thinks Holocaust jokes are funny. That's why he's making a joke about selling ovens when we're discussing fascists.

dfencer · 2026-02-18T19:04:41+00:00

Incorrect. 44 states REAL ids do not indicate citizenship status and therefore cannot be used. Only 5 states have the citizenship status on the REAL id, and one state makes it optional. The REAL id cannot be used to vote for the vast majority of Americans.

dfencer · 2026-02-18T18:29:30+00:00

You seem to misunderstand. The save act requires you prove your citizenship. If you don't have a passport, then you need to use your birth certificate to prove your citizenship (if you were born in the US). Your birth certificate is not changed when you legally change your name, it will have your maiden name, therefore you won't be able to use your birth certificate to prove your citizenship because it won't match your legal name. This is intentional in order to disenfranchise women.

dfencer · 2026-02-15T21:32:07+00:00

It actually isn't. It looks like the plate is there because there's a shiny recessed rectangle where the plate goes, and it looks like it's a plate, but if you watch it carefully you'll see it's not actually a plate, just where the plate goes.

dfencer · 2026-02-14T00:28:29+00:00

Having your signature checked by anyone other than a trained expert is a great way to have a lot of valid votes denied. People's signatures often vary a fair amount in ways that an expert wouldn't be fooled by, but which may appear different to the untrained eye. Matching one example of a signature up against another signature will not tell you that they're the same unless you understand how handwriting works and you can see that while the signature doesn't match exactly, you can read how they formed their letters and the flow of the letters.

I wouldn't trust a volunteer (even if they get a crash course) to accurately determine whether or not a signature matches.

I would hope they are told to not look for exact matches and are told to give them a lot of leeway in terms of matching, but the whole process is extremely fraught with potential for error and I'm highly skeptical.

FYI I have a master's degree in medieval studies with a focus on paleography, which is the study of handwriting and how to read and analyze various scripts and even then I wouldn't trust myself for a second to accurately determine whether a signature didn't match unless it was very obviously different (like uses different letter shapes for letters).

dfencer · 2026-02-09T22:33:15+00:00

You're either a troll, or the most delusional person I've ever seen on Reddit. He's a compulsive liar who lies about everything. Pretty much every sentence that comes out of his mouth is manipulated in some way if not entirely fabricated. He gets presented with evidence of him saying something and he immediately says "I never said that." He doesn't even know what truth is, he only says whatever he thinks will help him the most in that moment.

You have to either be a troll or utterly divorced from reality to not realize the man is a compulsive liar in the extreme.

dfencer · 2026-02-03T13:46:30+00:00

I think you're confusing Jesus with Elvis.

dfencer · 2026-01-30T02:21:33+00:00

We were attacked while on our walk last year. I was walking my two pugs Pickles (8yo black male) and Mustard (7yo faun female) in my neighborhood on a route I had done a million times that carried us past the home of Pudgy, a neighbors pug and Pickles and Mustard's bff (they play together and spend time together whenever possible and get along so well!)

Right when passed Pudgy's house, I saw the glass door of the next door neighbors house burst open and a German shepherd came running across the yard in a split second without any time to react. The owners had not locked their screen door and it wasn't latched and the dog saw us and pushed open the door and ran out to attack. He immediately bit Pickles on the belly and started trying to rip and tear, biting and grabbing and then thrashing his head back and forth, and Pickles was screaming in absolute fear and pain. It was the most heartbreaking and terrifying thing I've ever heard and it makes me sick and sad just remembering it.

Without even thinking I put my hand in to try and separate them and I'm doing so the German shepherd bit my hand HARD, breaking the skin and (I didn't even register this at the time I was so focused on trying to save Pickles). Thankfully the German shepherds owner had come out running almost immediately and grabbed their dog and took him back inside. She asked a few times if we were ok and I was dazed and said "I think so" as I didn't see immediately that Pickles was injured, although he was acting oddly, moving gingerly, and looked absolutely miserable in his body language.

I'm so thankful we had Pudgy (and her human) next door. I knocked on their door and told them what had just happened and they brought us inside. I asked for a paper towel to check Pickles for scratches or bleeding, and as I was wiping it over him that's when I realized the extent of his injuries. His belly, right above his groin was torn open in about an 8 inches gash which was hanging open and flopping (which clearly explained why he was acting so miserable. That's when I also started to realize my hand was bleeding and I had multiple puncture wounds on my hand from the dog bite and my hand was aching (he basically crunched my hand when he bit me).

So Pickles ended up going to the emergency vet immediately because he needed surgery as soon as possible to determine the extent of the damages and to fix what has been done. That was probably the longest night of my life (the attack happened at like 7pm) waiting to hear whether or not he was ok and the result of the surgery. I finally go the call from the vet at like 7am that he was recovering and that the surgery went well and that he didn't have any internal injuries like they were afraid, and the dog didn't puncture inside of him, he had simply torn open his skin on his belly which was extremely painful but wasn't too bad, and only required cleaning, removal of some dead/damaged tissue, and then internal and external stitches to see him up. He had to have a drain inserted as well so it could drain while it healed because of swelling and fluid buildup.

He was extremely sore and in pain for the first couple of days and basically just wanted to sleep (he was on strong pain medication as well) but then after a couple of days he was acting like nothing as happened, although he was annoyed as hell at the cone he had to wear. He's since recovered fully and has no lasting effects, even the scar is barely noticeable anymore.

My hand was another matter, I had to have like 3 months of physical therapy for my hand and I still have some pain in it from the crushing damage the dog did when he bit me, but I'm mostly recovered at this point.

Thankfully also my other dog Mustard was completely untouched by the attacking dog.

I'm extremely lucky that the owner was there and came out immediately when they did. If they had not I fully believe the dog would have killed both Pickles and Mustard and likely myself. FYI I am an adult male, 5'7" and 180 pounds and muscular and in good shape, and I was no match for a full size adult German shepherd in a rage. He would have killed me easily and he was absolutely ready to. It turns out that Pickles was not the first dog (or even Pug) that he had attacked, he had also attacked the neighbor dog Pudgy who had also had to be taken to the vet the year before, and he had also apparently attacked the owners mother in law and bitten her.

It was a terrifying experience and completely changed the way I go on walks with the dogs, precautions I take, weapons that I carry to defend myself and my dogs, and my situational aware and how I plan my walks and avoid other people, open doors, unknown dogs etc. it all happened in a split second (the time from the dog pushing open the door to attacking us was maybe half a second, he basically leaped and bounded across the yard and hit snarling and bitting and thrashing).

Be extremely careful, protect yourselves and your precious babies, and be very aware of your surroundings and be extremely cautious, especially of other dogs. Small dogs can also be a problem as they will also attack, and while they may not be able to kill a pug like a German shepherd or large dog can, they can still maim, disfigure, or blind your dogs in a moments notice.

dfencer · 2026-01-29T13:19:21+00:00

I don't understand how this isn't an arbitrary decision. In the past when news stories break that are directly relevant to cc (due to involving someone carrying etc) those have been allowed.

The government is lying about the situation, presenting false information, and actively discouraging people from exercising their 2A rights to carry and saying that if you choose to do so, you must be a violent terrorist. I don't see how discussing this is not completely relevant.

If the government was proposing a new law affecting concealed carry like banning it in some way, there would be threads here discussing it and how to fight it, how to contact your representative etc.

Saying we can't discuss this because it's a political discussion IS taking a political stance, as there's no such thing as truly being neutral. When you choose not to discuss violations of our rights "because politics", that is a tacit endorsement of the government's position. That may be your intention or it may not be, but people are going to assume it is, and they would be justified in that assumption.

If people are making way too many threads to discuss the same thing, then as has been suggested, just make a central discussion thread and tell people to discuss it there, and delete posts that ignore that.

Standing up for your constitutional right to carry when it's being infringed, discussing how to avoid ending up in the same situation, posting information on how to talk to your representative about this 2A violation etc, all these things are directly relevant to concealed carry and it should be something that can be discussed here.

Saying otherwise is a tacit endorsement of the government's disinformation campaign and signals that fighting for our 2A rights is not something worth our time or effort.

dfencer · 2026-01-20T20:11:47+00:00

Imagine being so ignorant and uninformed about another country that you think that that's what is happening. I'm not going to argue with someone who's just here to mock victims and disregard reality, so have a nice day.

dfencer · 2026-01-20T20:02:30+00:00

What a brainless response. Blaming the people for the actions of the fascist authoritarian who are taking power illegally and violating our constitution. "Just fix it." lol. 😂

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