IMG_3943.JPG There is a short set of photos from the Rapier Champions battle up on Flickr. By short I mean 59 photos. For those of you interested in paging through bout after bout, I exported a much larger set (259) and put it up on its own pages for your view pleasure. These photos haven’t been cropped or edited at all - something I will eventually get to with the shots I really like. But not now.

I want to thank everyone who wore sashes, capes, ribbons and other swooshy things - the photos are much more interesting when you can see that there was movement going on. Next tournament can I tie ribbons to all the fencers to make the photos even more fun? Pretty please?

Duncan’s bouts with Falling Down Woman start here. She drops her first sword here. Her dagger starts to fly here. If you start from the beginning and step through the whole set of bouts, it’s pretty entertaining. To me it looks like she’s always got her weight on the wrong foot (hence spending so much time on the ground). She does get one good shot in, but ultimately Duncan is victorious.

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