What do you do besides filmmaking, and how do you have time for it?

The epee is the ultimate fencing WEAPON, pookie. Go ahead grab your hammer and plumb line, I will grab my epee. In combat I will win, in construction you will win, at least in building a fence.

Sorry, Sad Max, the saber is too "clumsy" a weapon for my taste. It looks good, but too dependent on slashes. I love the accuracy of frontal attacks/thrusts.
 
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Doc Bernard said:
The epee is the ultimate fencing WEAPON, pookie. Go ahead grab your hammer and plumb line, I will grab my epee. In combat I will win, in construction you will win, at least in building a fence.
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OK, I was really getting screwed up with that putting foil on the fence thing....:thumbsup:

btw, I like that Matrix-y stuff going on there...
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Pookie said:
Ahh... you mean the ahem, "incident"........

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Ah, we germans sure know how to party. That's the entry room of a local bank by the way :D

During the last weeks I had to write my diploma thesis, so not much free time. But usually I spend time with my girlfriend, meet friends, do weight lifting, tricking, read alot on the internet about filmmaking, occasionally read a book, plan my music and film career.

And I love to visit other countries. Lived half a year in japan and half a year in hong Kong. Gotta use the opportunities of university.
 
ugafan said:
today i slept in till about 1:15. i'm about to take a shower. then it's off to go eat some fried chicken. after chick-fil-a, i'll stop off at either a children's playground or walmart. then i'll probably come home and get on the internet for a couple of hours. hopefully put away some of the items i've been hoarding in the den. eat again. watch some tv. play some video games. close the night with a movie and more internet. sleep.
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awesome. :)
 
Charli said:
Use to be sports and the gym. Rugby was the toughest sport I've ever played and fencing probably the most physically and mentally challenging sport. My coach was the #1 Epee champion for USA so that made it really super cool.

I knew I was no longer fearless in sports when I went mountain biking by myself and went down a steep hill and yelled, "Oh My God" all the way down. I was also almost hit by a car while biking with a friend for 20 miles on highway 1. The front bumper of the car almost touched my thigh.

Sports is the bomb. If I were healthy, I'd join a co-ed touch football team they have posted on Craisglist.
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Charli Gulley! I recognized you from my Facebook. Those types of things on a bike, you just kinda get used to. ;)
 
All this talk of fencing reminds of one of the best stories about motivation and success I ever read. It came from Nick Evangelista's The Art and Science of Fencing, but it applies to anything:

There once was a young, aspiring fencer who had an opportunity to bout before a renowned maestro. Giving his fencing his most heartfelt effort for over an hour, the young man paused at last for the master's hoped-for approval.
"Well, how was I?" he implored. "Was I good?"

If the young man was given the encouragement he desired, he would dedicate his life to fencing. In time, he hoped to become a national champion, maybe even an Olympic competitor. After that, he would strive to become a fencing master.

The old man, who had sat quietly and impassively during the fencing, looked squarely at the young swordsman and said, "You lack the fire."

The young man was crestfallen. He rushed away, sold his equipment and immediately found employment with a large corporation. He forgot about fencing.

Years later, the would-be champion, now the president of his own successful company, ran into the old master at a society function.

"You changed my life," the businessman told him. "I was crushed when you told me I'd never make it as a fencer, but I finally accepted it. Today, because of what you said to me, I'm a man of business instead of a man of the sword. But tell me, how could you tell so easily that I lacked the fire?"

"Oh, I hardly watched your fencing," the old master explained. "That's what I say to everyone who fences for me--that they lack the fire."

The businessman staggered back, barely able to comprehend what he'd just heard. "What? How could you do that to me! Perhaps I could have been a great champion, a master, another Santelli or Faulkner or Elthes."

The old man shook his head.

"You don't understand. If you had the fire, really had it, so that it burned inside you with an unquenchable passion, you would have paid no attention to what I said to you. You'd have stuck with fencing, no matter what. You gave up the first time your dream was challenged. You, young man, answered your own question."

"Oh," said the former fencer.

The secret of success is now before you.
 
Doc Bernard said:
Sorry, Sad Max, the saber is too "clumsy" a weapon for my taste. It looks good, but too dependent on slashes. I love the accuracy of frontal attacks/thrusts.
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I'm not sure that anyone who has watched me fence would accuse me of looking good, but...

...sabre just suits my personality better than foil. Plus I hate, hate, hate getting poked with an epee...
 
Doc - burned more calories fencing that I did any other sport and you wouldn't think it until you drill after drill and par with each other. Loved it.

SMax - Sabre is a "cutting" weapon - hmmmm, you are some serious business up in here.
 
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