University Daily Kansan
Section B
Friday, April 18, 1975
CURSES! foiled again
Ted Kinney took time to recuperate after a 50-minute session. As one student put it: "Your legs really ache."
Evolving from the days of heavy armor and double edged swords, fencing has lately become a popular sport. While in a practice match, Abraham Wien's, right, parry, a defensive maneuver, failed, but Yehuda Lilo's attack landed off target, resulting in no point being scored.
After Martil Schiller was poked by her opponent's foul, she thought of how she could have avoided it by using an alternative defence. Kim Thomas, right, laughed after she was punished for the mistake. She continued to laugh.
By CARL DAVAZ Kansan Staff Reporter
According to Jackie Schmidt, assistant instructor of physical education, two sections of introductory fencing aren't enough to accommodate the interested students, many of whom seem to bring childhood conceptions of the sport into class.
The four musketeers never had it so good.
Although the days of swashbuckling king's guards appear to be over, their mode of life lives on. And in Robinson gym at that.
"Beginners tend to get wild," said Schmidt. "They have this Zoro idea in their heads and forget about the mental part of the game."
"Well, I wasn't too at golf," said Jim Hopper, Eudora sophomore. "Also, you don't have to weigh 600 pounds like in basketball."
A variety of strange and obscure reasons attract students to fencing.
Marti Schiller, Arkansas City sophomore,
could have taken fencing to avenge a "D"
her sister got in the class several years back
but she had her own reasons.
"It's gentlenough," she said. "And besides, it has class."
Fencing isn't all dueling. Jim Hopper practiced his drills to achieve proper form.