Touche!

Not much exciting stuff happened this week, I thought I'd share with you one of our old adventures. Fencing! We went to a local studio that teaches fencing to check it out. It looked pretty interesting during the Olympics – what's more, it's real swords! Plus our guys (and gal) are pretty good at grunting – so maybe we'd like it!

Jordan looks pretty macho in his get up. If you notice, in his left hand is something attached to a wire, it's called a "body cord". When they did their practice this wire was hooked up to more wires in the ceiling, It kept score every time a blade touched their jacket.

Benjamin is sporting the mask and the rest of the complete get up. Looks cool – huh!

Notice Marcus is lame. I mean, he is wearing a Plastron, getting ready to put on the Lamé. That's the part of the shirt that can detect when a blade touches it.
The Plastron is extra padding to protect under the arm.

Casey is our 'weakness finder'. She found a weakness, in that if they boys don't have a sword or 'epee' she can still smack them around. Especially since her arms are longer than theirs.

Last, the "body cord" can also be used in spiderman-like fashion. This is especially useful when combating evil sisters.

Many thanks to Wikipedia and http://www.synec-doc.be/escrime/dico/engl.htm for helping me learn the terms of the cool equipment.