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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Fencing is not that hard to get good at and it is one of the easier sports to check the box with for college [/quote]

Seriously?  You think an Olympic sport is "not that hard to get good at"?  The top high school fencers spend 20-30 hours a week training, AND have to travel to six North American Cups a year to compete, AND have to travel to 4-7 Cadet and Junior World Cups in Europe each year, where they compete against the best European fencers (where fencing is taken very seriously), all while maintaining full high school schedules, taking AP classes, etc.[/quote]

It’s all relative . You don’t see super stud athletes competing Jin fencing [/quote]

You really don't know what you are talking about, and yet you revel and flaunt your lack of knowledge and feel compelled to post about things you know nothing about.

Here is the reality:  fencing is extremely competitive.  At the junior level (the high school kids we are talking about), thousands of fencers worldwide are going to international competitions each year.  Only a few can make it to the top -- and the US fencers are pushing their way in, especially the female fencers.  Despite this being a historically European sport, where sporting events are televised in prime time, etc., US junior women fencers have almost a dozen people in the top twenty fencers worldwide, in all three weapons (epee, foil, and saber).  In two of the three sports, the number one sport worldwide is held by a US fencer (foil and saber), and i the third, a US fencer is ranked fifth globally.  Just last week at a Junior World Cup, the two finalists were US fencers.  But sure, let's go with your theory that they got their without working hard or being good athletes.[/quote]

It is really sad that some people hide behind anonymous handles to trash others.  Three of these top junior fencers worldwide are from the DMV area, and a fourth from the DMV area is not far behind.  Thankfully they are probably working too hard at school and at their fencing training to see ridiculous posts about their sport on DCUM.  As it happens, they are all also going to top schools in the fall (Harvard, Princeton, and Notre Dame), and will be representing the United States at the Junior World Championships in a few months, so perhaps that explains the bitter attempts to tear down the sport.[/quote]

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