Assisting a colleague who’s preparing his sabre masters exam.
And then this happens….
So we told the pupil maybe a new mask is in order…..
How Sabre really should be fenced !
I heard the author Jonathan Ames tell this story elsewhere. Apparently he tells it quite a bit. Whichever way it provided to be the singular impetus for my new obsession: fencing. Here is his very literary and florid articulation of his greatest fencing match: