The A to Z Challenge is posting every day in April except Sundays (we get those
off for good behavior.) And since there are 26 days, that matches the 26 letters
of the alphabet. On April 1, blog about something that begins with the letter
“A.” April 2 is “B,” April 3 is “C,” and so on. This awesome challenge is hosted by founder Arlee Bird at Tossing It Out, Damyanti Biswas at Amlokiblogs, Alex J. Cavanaugh,
Tina Downey at Life
is Good, DL Hammons at Cruising Altitude 2.0, Jeremy Hawkins at Retro-Zombie, Shannon
Lawrence at The
Warrior Muse, Matthew MacNish at The QQQE, Konstanz Silverbow at No Thought 2
Small, Stephen Tremp at Breakthrough Blogs, Livia Peterson at Leave it to Livia,
L. Diane Wolfe at Spunk on a Stick, and Nicole at The Madlab Post My A to Z theme is fencing and swordplay, focusing mainly on fencing terminology, but with a few favorite movie fencing moments thrown into the mix too. Why: I love fencing and swordplay!
Our first term just goes to show that formal fencing terms don't often fit regular definitions for words.
Assault means: a friendly combat between two fencers.
Foil fencing practice . . .friendly combat.
Other awesome A words for fencing and swordplay:
And, a late, but most important addition to this post:
ARLEE BIRD ROCKS!!! He started A to Z, and he keeps this blogging community close and thriving.
24 comments:
I'm going to use some of those terms today and confuse a few people!
You gotta tell me tomorrow what's a balestra and on F I hope you include froissement or I'll have to look them up. ;)
Yes, the word certainly mean something else in fencing.
oh I may need to take notes on this theme! Very cool :)
Thanks for sharing. I may use some of this.
I'm definitely using these in my writings!
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Assault mean a friendly combat - I didn't know that.
This is a great vocab and definitions!
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Alex - LOL - that's funny!
Al - yes, I'll define balestra and froissment although they won't be my "main" words of the day.
Natalie - Great!
Dani - Cool! Glad to hear it!
Diane - Yes, it's definitely a different definition than we normally think of for that word.
Dani - Thanks! Glad you liked them!
There are fencing terms from A-Z? Guess I'll find out!
I actually did a little research on fencing for something I wrote once. It was fascinating to learn about the terms. I had no idea there was so much involved with the sport.
Some interesting insight into fencing there :)
Good A post! :) Looks like you are off to a wonderful start. I agree, Arlee rocks!
I've always wanted to fence, but I'm such a wimp I'd probably run away screaming if someone actually came after me :P
Awesome theme! Can't wait to learn more!
Cool beans! Now I'm going to bookmark you and label it "swordplay". Yay!
I've always wanted to try fencing. Maybe I've watched too much of the old 'Highlander' series..who knows?
Great start and looking forward to more!
oooh, me thinks me will learn some stuff from you this month! Looking forward to it!
I loved the article. And I think I'm going to follow Alex's example/idea!
Good idea for A! Great definitions! New follower.
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C. Lee - Yes, there are fencing terms from A to Z, although I may be cheating a little for Z.
Julie - It's great sport, and fun if you like both an aggressive sport as well as a thoughtful one - chess for active people . . . (although I'm not active enough anymore)
Laura - Thanks!
Karen - Thank you! And yes, Arlee is a wonderful part of the blogging world!
Samantha - I don't believe it. You've overcome adversity in a big way before this, so I think you could take on a fencing team. :) And Thanks!
Crystal - Cool! Thanks!
Jeff - Thanks!!!
Morgan - Thank you! I'll be by to check out your blog in a little bit.
Mark - Highlander is awesome! And I highly recommend fencing . . . it's great fun and exercise.
There's some awesome terminology in this sport! (you know how I love words...) Attack au Fer, sounds so cool!
Arlee rocks! For sure!
FENCING!!! You're a woman after my own heart. :-D
In fact, I'm going to pick the sport up again this weekend. Your post reminded me to let the coach know.
Misha - Love that! I would love to restart . . . I'm a bit rusty after too long away, and these posts are making me long to join the nearest fencing club again.
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