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It could also be something conductive in the tip itself, such as plating flaking off the tip....bounces around, shorts across the contacts...light fires.

So the blades never ever whip around, I suppose.

Uhhh...no....HELL no...and ^%#$^%# NO!

We have a completely blind student at my salle in Burbank, CA. I posted a thread or 2 about his efforts at Fencing.net (pardon the sometimes snippy tone...there were a few people who really ticked...

And no student ever suddenly dips forward onto the point.

I may remove the mask for a BRIEF moment if I need some ventilation and still want to show something, but it's always going to be...

Having RoW calls and what constitutes an attack in the written rules MATCH might be a good place to start.

Longer sabre lockout timings so a proper parry/riposte beats a really fast remise.

Yeah..pretty much. I've seen ones that are so high up, they're practically worthless.

Not everyone has the same size head...velcro allows for some customization of fit (for example, I prefer a tighter strap, so I added some velcro to the existing straps on my mask).

Nothing says...

The back strap on an X-Change is sufficient in most cases...it sits far enough down to serve double-duty as the required horizontal strap AND the main retention system via the disk.

Where I've...

Necessities of stage combat....greater distance gives the audience more time to see what's going on.

For scoring boxes....Virtual Scoring Machine. Instantly becomes the best machine in the joint. And when you get to that last second, it shows 1/10ths (FIE take note)

For floor reels, I find the...

We had a mask like that come through control at US nationals last year. We tried and tried, but the damn thing would NOT move at all. We ended having to cut the spline out so the bib could be...

*puts on his USFA armorer hat*

Tape is allowed on a French grip in epee....the French is exempted from the rule.

A couple of even wraps around to make the overall grip thicker should not be a...

Basil Rathbone....

Yep....have seen this one before...my knees hurt just watching.

In addition to what else is being said...put him on the box.

No lames are needed, just the hookup to the light fires.

Have him bout someone with the instruction to just make him miss when he...

Someone floated the FIE requirement in the US a couple of months ago. It was pretty much a non-starter, as it would KILL the sport over here. There is NO parent who's going to shell out for FIE...

As Mattc said...a lot of it is a personal choice.

I have 2 sabres in my bag, but I typically use the same one for teaching and actual fencing...primarily because of the grip.

My 2nd one is a...

Unless, of course, you use the Prieur style....where the plastic retaining clip around the socket bracket rarely fits properly over the plug body if the wires are installed....argh.

Or you could...

German style 2 pin cords have a built-in security device....if it gets lost, that's on the fencer's head.

Ugh...I don't even go out on Black Friday unless I absolutely have to.

Considering it WAS done (although I think Boris used a French grip), it's a valid concern.

I WILL say, however, that the amount of switched I saw at the pentathlon world cup I worked a couple of...

A spike that large would project beyond the guard, and thus be illegal.

I'd be more concerned with use in epee....you could hide a switch under the thumb of a pistol grip easily.

Interesting....in the US, we just said EVERYONE has to have them....from Y10 to Vet70+.

That's Fron, Ken, and Steen, actually.

ONLY in sabre, you mean, as the foil/epee version was banned by FIE almost immediately after an Uhlmann one got pierced at a Jr event somewhere in Europe (forget where). They were banned in the US...