Fencing is a pseudo-sport where
college-age, predominantly virgin male anime fags meet to attempt to learn some sort of ancient art of sword fighting. They will tell you they do it for the competition and athleticism involved, but the truth is that they think it's super
awesome to be a sword fighter, which might actually be true if common
college fencing clubs actually helped you in any way learn the art of swordplay (the art of killing), not the art of getting points for whacking your
friends with a stick.
Fencing is one of those activities that might have been a cooler thing to get into if it hadn't been taken over by geeks and nerds (pretty much the same thing has happened to karate and other forms of martial arts in the last few years). Most of them think that when the zombie apocalypse happens they'll be fighting off hordes of zombies with real swords while fellow survivors look on in
awe at their
amazing display of dexterity and physical prowess. The fact of the matter is that by trying to fight at close range, these wannabe sword masters will be the first to get overrun and bitten, leaving their smarter
friends who brought guns to either save them or make the mercy shot.
An actual conversation I had at the gym with one of my
friends who got into fencing:
Me: "Hey man, what's up?"
Him: "Not much, just going to fencing club, you should come."
Me: "Nah man, I'm just here to work out, after that I've gotta get over to the labs to work on some stuff for a project."
Him: "Dude, you're a fucking
pussy for not coming to fencing!"
Me: "What the hell man, you're a fucking
pussy for not working out for real. Have fun beating sticks together with a bunch of other sweaty dudes."
